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How can an individual investor profit from the coming sovereign debt crisis?

Sometimes when I go to hacker news, I feel really poor.

I did the math on this a while ago and calculated I could travel my normal commute back and forth on the battery of a plug-in hybrid. I would only need the petrol engine on longer …

The spinning wheel has kinetic energy, not potential energy, right?

Any tips on finding a good mentor?

Which startups are trying to build a launch loop or space towers? I'd love to keep track of those startups.

If you haven't already, read: Tripping Over the Truth: The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Illuminates a New and Hopeful Path to a Cure (ISBN: 9781603587303). It is a grea…

I think it's a cultural thing. A lot of people in europe think skyscrapers destroy the skylines of cities. They really dislike any changes though. For example, in Stockholm, there …

Of course. I'd much rather trust the anecdotes of a stranger on the internet

mirror?

I really wish people could make it a habit to define acronyms.

Please do not take advice about your health from hacker news. Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition. Consult a medical professional about your diet and medication.

Assuming the market keep on growing over time as it has done for a very long time, all time highs aren't something spectacular or unusual in the stock market, in fact it occurs alm…

awesome, thanks!

You should try to add some sort of tracking of when people start to write a message to you. If that's in any way possible. It would be really stalkery if you knew whenever someone …

Aren't non-compete clauses banned in California?

Ships going from (for example) Europe to Asia switch to the cheaper sulfur bunker when exiting the EU. This could be easily fixed with international regulations so people wouldn't …

Don't focus on placing every tile perfect, just get them evenly placed across the hexagon. The game seems to slow down after a while as well. I got 17800 points after a few trials.…

I live in the same city but I can't find a pizza near me that's cheaper than ~90 SEK - 14.01 USD

It would seem to me a much simpler solution would be for airlines to offer earplugs on all flights. That way, babies can cry and businessmen don't whine.

Yep, I thought I was going to find my own domain here.

A few weeks ago I made a feeback submission to facebook regarding the new graph search user experience design. I proposed to them that you should be able to click outside of the se…

You can bet Facebook is storing that data though. And who knows what the future holds, perhaps Facebook will be forced to sell that data to its users in order to increase revenue a…