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It should seriously not take much more time than it takes to warm up a nasty styrofoam cup of noodles to cook something cheap, easy and - above all - tasty. The first step is to ge…

Er, yes? Guess what the first results are when you type in "American Nazi Party?" That's right - the homepage of just such an organization. I rather doubt they have any real influe…

Finding very little to disagree with here (except that odd stance on MDMA, but I don't so much disagree as find myself cold and uninterested on the issue). Patton Oswalt needs to s…

From the article, it seems as if its breaking was done A. by hand, and B. more as a hobby than anything else. It was explicitly noted that if they had bothered feeding it through a…

TRICK QUESTION. 1 and 2 are not mutually exclusive. Exactly why is the seminar not at the local pub?

Before we colonize anything outside of our own self-sustained gravity well, we kind of need to have a working model of a self-sustained /ecological system/. Which we noticeably lac…

If people want to make donations in support of a fun (or at least funky) idea, I /don't/ think they should be barred from doing so. Discouraging goodwill isn't exactly a great stan…

That's about when you release a new model and reduce the price on the old design.

.../what version/ of Settlers? Original Flavor gets dull after a short while, I find.

It's not a "viable" model for the /developers/ involved in the Humble Indie Bundle. Not in the sense of pricing for /new/ releases, at least. However, each of these games have been…

If this doesn't turn out to be overblown sensationalism, then the team behind this (actual!) cure probably deserves a Nobel for their efforts and results.

Between the article and your wiki, I now have access to pretty much every iota of social gaming theory I've been looking for. Much gratitude.

Irrelevant to the topic, perhaps, but... tophatmonocle.com? I am envious of your address, sir.

Specifically, its businesses and citizens'll be doing just fine. The government will probably be fucked up. But when was the last time it /wasn't/? I suspect even the older of HN's…

That is... a fairly optimistic opinion. And presupposes that North Korea choses the least self-destructive action. Feeling lucky?

I'm only guessing here, not being an engineer or a mathematician, but... wouldn't that be rather dependent on what kind of engineering you're getting into?

By that, he means "sucker them into an endless compulsion loop and offer to heighten the reward for cash."

...why would it NOT be okay? Startups might need cash, but so do big corps. If we're talking about "donating equivalent to big corporations," then obviously we're talking flights o…

That's still model-dependent, I think. If the cost is sufficient barrier to entry that user skepticism remains high, then you'd probably have less initial converts simply by having…

How does it not? Of its X population of users, Y% have a need to advertise something on Facebook.

Doing a bit of personal research, mostly to scratch an intellectual itch, but also because there's a few ideas I've been working on, and I want to compare it against what's out the…

I'm currently a salesguy doing door-to-door work for a telecom fiber optic campaign. I wouldn't quite call it a "sunny" attitude, but you definitely get used to it very, very fast.…