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The Hoover Institution is a think-tank, and we all know that think-tanks exist for the sole purpose of legitimizing ideologies that favor certain elites. Thiel may be a millionaire…

"It struck me that I am incredibly lucky to be a student at MIT, where I have never actually encountered blatant sexism. No one has ever groped me." When you take a look at the aut…

Why not link to the original article? http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2226 I thought blog-spamming was not kosher on HN. Am I missing anything obvious?

How dare you allude to what someone actually did ?! Don't you know that Americans like appearance more than content? Seriously now: I upvoted you, and I wish I could upvote you twi…

What makes you assume that one's profit / revenue / compensation is a measure of the value one created? There's no central authority accounting for the "value" being created. The w…

Not quite. Populist and pavlovian attacks are baseless. But intelligent ones are not. Personally, I not only distrust the SEC, but I also believe that "should" is a word to be left…

I can't. The trademark is already registered ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Capital_LLC

Thanks for the intelligent comment. Finally! I am not against intelligent critique of GS, the government, whatever. In fact, such critique is required to ensure the proper function…

The joke is no longer amusing. Everyone is attacking GS, from utterly clueless uneducated morons to utterly devious dumb politicians with a private agenda. By attacking GS in such …

Pavlovian anti-GS hysteria at its best...

If you were going to burn $60, you could instead have gotten a 50 euro BJ in the Red Light District and then had an Heineken with your buddies. You probably would have sweeter memo…