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It's a chinese flag, the old republic of china flag. Also known as the five races flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union

There is a really great documentary about Kevin Carter and the bang bang club called "when under fire, shoot back" [0]

It's much better than the fictionalized version that TFA references. Although it doesn't seem to be widely available so it might be a bit of a chore to hunt down.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3478564/

Why is family farming worth protecting? What extra value do family farms provide to me, the person actually buying food? People lose their jobs because superior companies out-compete them all the time. Why should farmers be protected from this?

This is an example of a problem called the Coupon Collector problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem). Short version is that the expected value of number of pulls you'll need to collect all of the coupons (candy in this case) is nln(n), or about 16 pulls in this case. Of course some people are just going to be unlucky (as you demonstrated).

Yes, but the original article is spreading misinformation. Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests.

Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests. Anesthesiologists treat the donor just as they would any other patient undergoing surgery. This account by a Georgia anesthesiologist rebuts many of the points made by the article, and does so much better than I would do.

http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/2012/03/death-or-some...

Non-technical.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html

Cocktail sort

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According to the inflation calculator: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi $100,000 1962 dollars is $712000 2010 dollars. A lot of money, for sure, but not 10 million.