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It is interesting to see the different reactions to this article. Byrne is clearly sympathetic to Aaron’s cause, and to the fact that civil disobedience and other sometimes subvers…

It is interesting to see the different reactions to this article. Byrne is clearly sympathetic to Aaron’s cause, and to the fact that civil disobedience and other sometimes subvers…

I believe he's referring more to the fact that the real world price per unit of game currency is not a round number. If dragon eggs were worth exactly $1 each, people would be slig…

I agree with you, and more generally I find the "life isn't fair/no excuses" mindset to be a strange phenomenon. The idea that being prepared for adversity, planning ahead, etc. is…

Creative thinking, but I'd have to disagree with your conclusion. The present value of the additional years of copyright would be very low, especially taking into account 1. the pr…

I search HN a lot, so am excited by this native implementation. I would be curious to know more about how the "relevance" sorting algorithm works though. When I did a test search f…

The article's bullet points are great, but I would emphasize one thing: Don't be afraid to ask, but only AFTER YOU'VE DONE YOUR HOMEWORK. People can be surprisingly helpful, but es…

The crux of the issue as I see it is an extension of what mathematics educators call "number sense." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense ) It seems from many of the other c…

As a starting point, I think there is not much downside in showing full integer comment scores for comments over n (n=2?) days old. In addition, I think there are a variety of ways…

That is a reasonable possibility, and I think we probably agree on many aspects of the problem. The general observation still holds though, that the current compensation reality do…

I think your assertion about the "rhetorical sleight of hand" is pretty far off-base, and is an (admittedly subtle) strawman. The main points of the article, from my perspective we…

Alternate format for browsing the catalogue: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?intSal...

That's a fine sounding sentence, but what do you actually mean by that? Do you mean the wealth distribution when subtracting out the equity value of financial businesses? Or ignori…

I guess I have two points: 1. Your observations about Atari and Newton highlight one of the problems with your initial argument- it's not generally a safe bet to assume an early ca…

Would you have said you can't out-Newton the Newton? You can't out-Atari the Atari?

one of the tagline descriptors from the video: "Flash-loving" Interesting they highlight that in their first marketing video. I suppose with these things it can be difficult to dif…

This is one of the least enlightening articles I've seen in a long time. I understand that it's a challenge to succinctly summarize a 73 page paper in 300 words, but here the autho…

Anyone interested in reading more about this should check out this paper that was fairly central in advancing the debate over the last four years. It's an interesting read, and hig…

I have two family friends who are recently retired and are currently about 2 months into their walk. The American Discovery Trail is actually a partially-marked cross country trail…

New Update: "To those worrying about us--we're fine, and will issue a suitable riposte shortly." http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10993931099

He seems to have likely switched the mean and median, so the median may actually be 28.3. It's interesting to see the numbers, but the given statistics don't seem to quite make sen…