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Re:The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @12:14PM (#11382534)
This immediately made me think of the Sting song "Straight to my Heart", and the 'sex' scene in "Demolition Man". I'm sure there are other examples.

I suspect that if sex/ sexuality were not in such an odd cultural space, ideas like this would either rarely arise, or at least never raise an eyebrow.

Re:The German Tank Problem (2010) on Friday November 06, 2015 @02:18PM (#10521375)
Alternative application of the solution. It's an interesting bit of math, with many theoretical and real world applications.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/65/

For anyone in the Vancouver area, Joe is a Guest of Honor at VCON (http://vcon.ca), in the first weekend of October. It's a smallish convention, so GoH are usually easy to find and chat with.

Full disclosure, I am helping put on the convention, but it's a non-profit convention put on by volunteers.