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The funny thing is, I suspect that many people believe that to be the law already, if cinema and television audiences are anything to go by. That's quite scary really, because it s…

This seems like an argument for the destruction of anonymity for anyone who isn't a net-wide lurker, or at least, it's indistinguishable from one. I understand the author's concern…

There's a difference between a biological cascade leading to the production of distributed signaling molecules, and "feeling" things, as a few comments seem to be missing. A human …

I had a similar experience with elote, and now I'm a hopeless addict. Street food is often the best food that you don't cook yourself, or get at a serious restaurant with a fat bil…

I prefer the ongoing counterattack of not using Windows 10. It seems like a strategy that MS is losing to en masse.

Finally. This was a long time coming from a public health perspective, and the FDA could have done this any time citing lack of efficacy.

I think that locked doors and sealed envelopes are symbolic, and have been for far longer than we've been alive.

The ability to anonymously, and untraceably make money is not like the ability to encrypt information, a symbolic thing you have for insurance reasons, or your privacy. A private i…

Thank you.

While I have you here, is it acceptable to call people pedants here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12401447

I think it's also just useful to learn for the way it makes you stop and examine the world around you, your own decisions, in a new and more analytical light. Besides, if you're in…

Like using a set of fine chisels to sculpt a pudding... math for semiotics. Pft.

We got his supposed "mean spirit" before a single damned point relating to the headline has come up... not a good sign I agree.

I thought I was unable to learn math, until I learned it outside of a school. One book like Prime Obsession was worth more to me than every moment of high school math. It's unbelie…

There is a strange, hardcore of people who love No Man's Sky. I don't mean people who like it, I mean people who (literally) brag about buying multiple copies and playing hundreds …

I don't think that opening with an insult is in the spirit of what this site is about, do you?

Why would embracing one destroy the other? I think a combination of gestural interface, subvocalization voice recognition, and AR could be the big winner in our lifetimes. The text…

I think it just means you have a bit of empathy, and awareness of how other people might view you. Many, if not most people seem to lack those qualities in general, never mind in r…

Unfortunately New York isn't the only place pricing people out of a home. By the way, About 2% of Americans live in New York City alone. At least 1% are not having a great time wit…

I feel like the author of this piece doesn't have a grip on the reality of 90% of Americans, or more.

I can't imagine charging people $60 for a game that wasn't finished, that goes just as much for the makers of NMS as any other game. As for beauty, very much eye of the beholder I …