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It is amazing the amount of nonsense. The Maldives example is a good one. Someone posts some alarmist nonsense making this claim-- completely unsicentific, or a single paper presen…

The IPCC is a political institution and its reports have no scientific validity. If you want to know the facts about this stuff, look into the IR absorbtion of CO2, and the planets…

The most amazing symptom of the surge in popularity of macs is all these windows people showing up thinking they should be running anti-virus software! You don't need it, and you c…

While I appreciate you calling me a troll and then saying "to be fair" your response is still argument to the person, and thus you are an example of why hacker news is a place wher…

Argument to the person, therefore, you concede the point. Your argument to the person, rather than to the issue at hand is why hacker news is a place where proper discussion is rar…

No, but most people from both political parties support the laws that prevent people from hiring kids his age. I think he was only able to get the $3,000 because it was a bounty or…

Neither is chillingo or the other iPhone publishers. Or at least, in most cases they don't. If you've had a hit with them, then maybe they will front cash. But the old model where …

This is a common perspective, but it is worth noting that it is not a foregone conclusion that the publisher will actually do any marketing. I've been a developer on several games …

I'm sorry, but I can't help but see this and think of all the kids around this age who are prevented from earning money by child labor laws, and the idea that this kid is a "Slave"…

Actually, you can't. People who "hate apple's policies" are people who hate apple for ideological reasons and are attempting to rationalize it. If you understand apple's policies y…

And browsing can be a pretty CPU heavy thing, these days. Not on the scale of video encoding, but enough to bring an ARM or Atom processor to its knees.

The article underplayed the importance of thermal design envelope to the situation, and your summary completely left it out. I think that many people- especially consumers who know…