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That graph amuses me. Notice the benefit to users continues to climb, even if the benefit to "facebook and other companies" happens to climb faster. So even though it benefits you …

Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, a Harvard social psychologist who is an expert in stereotyping, told me, "Carol Dweck is a flat-out genius. I hope the work is taken seriously. It scares peopl…

> ... because they believe there is an advantage in doing so That is one possible explanation, but I think it is really simpler than that: People like to talk about themselves, and…

He was picking an earnings number ($1 billion-ish) and a P/E ratio (20ish) and solving for the P. Of course, the $1 billion is revenue, not earnings, so that number is likely to be…

No. I'd tell him to get a Facebook/Picasa/Flickr/Twitpic account. Dad used to get a shared hosting account for things like that, but now we have services that host content for free…

Specifically, the list including all your friends, and none of your other 'connections': http://www.facebook.com/friends/#!/friends/?filter=afp I thought I'd try this out to see ho…

Maybe we have different definitions of 'personal'. I was talking about posting things about your relationship status or medical conditions... the only people I would tell that stuf…

> But now I’m down to the lucky 35, I can speak more freely about my personal life I see my "lucky 35" in real life quite often, and can tell them personal things in person, where …

I really don't get this argument. It seems that his point is that section 3.3.1 is going to scare developers away and ruin the platform. Ok. So let the developers go elsewhere. The…

:%s/Emacs/Vim/g Although I'd also point out that even if it did run Emacs, I'm not sure how fun it would be to use Emacs' key combos with a software keyboard. The company that come…

Filter has been done by many a GM script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 I realize that only helps if you have a browser with GM (like Firefox).

To go meta on this meta, I think the requirement to downvote is still something like 200 to 250 karma. With a couple good submissions or comments, you could have that in a matter o…

You just need to lay a few down the west side and wait for radioactive winds to take care of everyone else, but yeah, you have a point. I think most people vastly overestimate the …

Can you put the theme permalink in the generated theme files as a comment? Seems like it might be handy to have someday.

I agree with all your explicit points, and I realize that graph is a very crude indicator. Also, I agree with the implicit point I think you are making, which is that this reform r…

> Given that our understanding has limits, this is far from certain. That is a pretty big assumption to make. If you are saying that our understanding is limited at this point in t…

I'm sure the house leadership had the plan worked out pretty quickly, it just takes time to work out the details with the Senate leadership, then communicate it to the >250 democra…

You just have to understand, for those of us that have been here for three years, this kind of thing gets old. It happens every month or so, and it's always the same plea. You know…