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"Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and so…

You might enjoy Last Chance to See, from Douglas Adams. It is a tells how he traveled searching for near extinct species. It is non-technical and non-fiction, but it is a Douglas A…

Uruguayan here. We have had multiple dictatorships in our short history. We know what the government is capable of, not in theory, but in our bones. We root for Snowden, because we…

Api, please make a post expanding on these ideas. Then post it here and send some copies to international news sites, like the guardian. We need to wake up, your post would help a …

I thought that already existed, as Facebook Likes boondoggles.

You have three groups, those who care strongly about seeing ${badstuff}, people who don't care enough to change the default, people who care strongly about not seeing the ${badstuf…

Could you explain the connection between the first and second sentence?

Yes. The bottleneck, as usual, is cultural. Still, I have hope. Some people refuse to touch or even be near people who aren't clean. That forces others to be clean and propagates h…

Maybe we should start using decentralized technologies? Go back to bittorrent, tor, irc. Teach everybody to encrypt, the same way we teach them to wash their hands. And for similar…

Weren't you taking a one month break from hacker news? http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/one-month-bre...

I find the comparison suggesting, but otherwise useless. All human endeavors have a political factor, but "political party" evokes something else. Many ads promise to make our live…

True, but they fill a niche and they aren't scaling as much. Maybe you could have Y Combinators running in parallel.