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Given the general attitude toward Edward Snowden in the Valley, I can’t help thinking that a lot of these FBers who are so upset that their dirty laundry is being publicly aired we…

If HE hadn't already been so cynical with his charitable donations, maybe I'd be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, as you suggest. Donating $100 million to the Newark …

No.

Or, solve it with a receipt printer: http://kck.st/1LRU6Lo .

As if you could even get the proof-of-concept for something like this for $4 million. It cost Eclipse $1 BILLION to ship their first jet, which, for all its innovation, was a lot m…

Funny, it's not even controversial among professional economists.

That's some Michael Bay shit right there. Transformers 8 shooting nearby?

This issue's been around for awhile. See this post ( http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ ) from 2007. The problem actually inspired me to create a piece of k…

His commanding officer had heard that something called the Manhattan Project was looking for soldiers, and told him to apply. “He knew I was a loudmouthed New Yorker,” said Dr. Bed…

Or, much cheaper and a 4-hour turnaround: https://youtu.be/MMF9I_9DAcs .

I only just logged out to look for those links (and found them). If I'm logged in, I can't find them anywhere. Regarding HN's feed, all I know is, if I reset Feedly and Feedbunch (…

So long, Feedly, you sucking douchenozzle, and hello, Feedbunch. Add a donate button somewhere, amatriain, so I can give you some dough.

Winston Churchill once said, "If a man isn't a liberal in his twenties, has has no heart. And, if he isn't a conservative in his forties, he has no brain."

"... the initial prototype automotive Tweel tires did demonstrate flaws with regard to noise and high speed vibration ..."

Did you mean, "... the attraction between the Moon and a 1kg object ...?"

There is also a common opinion among Cirrus owners that a number of fatal Cirrus accidents could have been avoided had the pilot deployed the chute, i.e. people don't pull the hand…

Yes.

You really don't know what you're talking about. There is no evidence that the parachute entices pilots to take greater risks (if I'm wrong, by all means cite some), any more than …

They conveniently omit how they do the plated-through holes.

When did "start up" become a verb?

Odd that a picture of dead people (Palermo catacombs, I'm guessing) shows up beside this headline in my RSS reader (Feedly).

I'm always surprised by people who view the most powerful job on earth as an entry-level political position. The hubris and/or naivete indicated by their belief in their qualificat…

Are there any studies that associate telomere length with actual organism longevity in primates?

The bomb that was tested during Trinity was a plutonium, implosion device, completely different from the uranium, gun-type device dropped on Hiroshima. The designers were so confid…