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Wow, Toyota being given some love?! I thought there was a blanket ban on all things Toyota so the community isn't forced to admit that all things agile are actually from the manufa…

HN is, barely, a step above twitter. If one were to pick the bottom 20% of comments from HN, it would be ignorant, biased, group think, poor logic, borderline bigoted (but mainly i…

The first line from Wikipedia: "A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue." And, this is exactly why I keep "losing my password" for …

Re: ad hominem critiques. I thought they were duly deserved. Your comment came across, to me, as condescending and arrogant, both qualities of the person putting forth the argument…

Me too. But, again, not the point the commenter was making. Just, noise.

Hmmmm, do I really want to put myself through the painful experience of reading HN comments about "the problem of poverty"? Pass.

have fun regressing out everything else...

i used to work at an institutional investment firm. a huge one. (say it like trump) huuuuuge. we had lots of economists. i chilled with them. i partied with them. and when we parti…

even if we accomplish all this and more, we have still not answered the question, "what is the 'good life'?" because that is not a technical question. we can put off death. we can …

eventually even atoms will stop spinning. i think what the commenter was getting at, is that, immortality is impossible, and so finding meaning in a life that must eventually end, …

Asking for someone to offer an argument for the claim that "it is worth while considering other life philosophies other than those that lead to chasing immortality and viewing the …

Yes, I totally agree that Mathematica (other projects) can be the way to go when getting work done. No argument there.

I should have said: "And yet Mathematica is not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician." I wasn't meaning to imply that Mathematica has…

The writing is on the wall. Tough time to be a meth dealer or truck stop hooker. Time to retool for a new career.

And yet Mathematica is not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician. The value of maths is 1) it's "open-source", 2) it's free to use, 3)…

"Mathics is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." There may be a few other differences you are not considering.

So 21st century. If this was 20 years ago, headline would read: "The FBI Director Puts Electric Tape Over His Blinking VCR Clock"

no. not true.

that's actually really interesting. that's local government at work for you, in the most real and annoying sense. people getting involved and trying to change things at the local l…

( >We don't have anything remotely close to a free market in housing, though... + >Right now, the market wants to build - we should let it. ) vs ( >I would be much, much more apt t…

generally,,, idk. i lived in Stuyvesant Town for a time, in Manhattan. it, was not blighted. it was effin amazing and i miss the living there, a lot. a lot, alot. if you didn't ear…

Going out on a limb, I think yourapostasy pointed to Levittown not to attempt to explain the entire economics of housing for the U.S.A. during the 70's (because hey, if we're takin…

I'll cede the floor to the well know investor, with impeccable credentials, Warren Buffett. In 2010, during the Great Recession, he said: ...After a few years of such imbalances, t…

I feel that this sort of response (land value tax) is very political, in addition to being an economic response. Taxes are at the heart of politics. Without taxes to raise revenue …