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Really? You cannot imagine any scenario where employment approaches zero other than the robotic-utopia scenario? We have no historical example of employment approaching double digi…

I almost choked on my lunch laughing after re-reading that. I remember reading the original thread and actually agreeing with him, without the slightest chuckle. Im amazed at how m…

If we have fusion in 30 years instead of 60 years, we have colonization of the solar system happening in our lifetimes. We'd have the economic rationale for removing all military e…

Have you ever programmed anything substantial using java outside the enterprise/agile IT environment? Any type of project on your own time? Have you every built anything in Ruby, P…

Wrong, by about a standard deviation. The mean iq of the Ashkenazi is about 113, the average for a very good nurse or less than average accountant. Of course, that mean deviation i…

Was Bronx Science like this? It seems to me that the tech track magnets would be a little more enlightened, but I could be wrong.

I'm with you. Just warm up the starcraft!

How many of those are getting warmer, gibsonf1? :), couldn't resist.

Uh, guess you didn't get it (no, not the book).

I wish people would lay off him. Look, for the last time, Bush is not President anymore. Next we'll be going over his alchoholism and business failings in his 30s. Leave him be, pl…

Allowing that both are real is incorrect, even as they define themselves. Christianity and Judaism, by identity, allow only one of them to be real , if real is defined by correspon…

Would like your opinions and information on best practices/software/os for a home LAN. Also, do you use traffic monitoring sofware?

I think the comment above calls into question the merit of your friends achievement, which will always be the result of affirmative action programs. How can you say that? Do you kn…

If they pay for it within those fifteen minutes, that is all that matters.

At some point, a man, regardless of his convictions, has to stop getting into arguments with reality. Bread and circuses it is, then.

Because there is no way a woman could be that smart, is there? Oh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant She must have the longest ring finger on the planet, yeah, that…

I'll trade you some of my stock certificates for some of your green pieces of....

Possibly the stupidest non sequitur I have read here in a while. You're joking, right?

Not a web connection or mag subscription among the lot of them, eh? http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=a... http://www.forbes.com/2005/02/21/cz_0221oxan_default…

Google could end this now with a nationwide wimax buildout. Build a skype-like voice protocol on the android stack, open source a reference hardware design, and let programmers pla…

The cultural values of the respondents are measured by their responses to a question on the values parents would most like in their children. This is not controlling for values tak…

showed that only IQ had predictive value when pitted against values theories. How you control for values? If I value taking peoples money by force because I feel like it my intelli…

Apple is evil and in severe need of competition in this space. May Android provide it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292142