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If someone wants to hire only people of one gender, what's the harm in that? There are other places to work.

Funny you compare them to Apple. Their main product of the 1980s seemed to be a compact stereo that sounded like a really good boom box, but was weak on sound quality at volume.

Such a wonderful metaphor.

Political debates where there's a right way to think, or the downvotes grey out your post. Downvotes for factual data that is inconvenient according to what the people who hang out…

You can't get any better advice than from Napalm Death: 1. Change your life. 2. You suffer (but why?). Something in your life-arrangement is wrong. Fix it and move to something you…

They're morons not to. Word of mouth in appreciation of a good deed or good product is the most compelling sales pitch you'll ever hear.

As society becomes more chaotic, the cops are going to get more violent and pro-active. Look at police in Brazil and other war zones. They have to be this way, and they're not univ…

It's not popular to say this but: democracy is a failure. We have constant political turmoil, constant corruption, and constant interruption by "well-intentioned" but insane govern…

Gizmodo? Isn't that a site by the same people who hire reporters who reveal the personal data of internet users? Not interested.

Pure pretense. They're using the NSA debacle as an excuse to pander to the trend and headline-whore.

Gosh, a lack of hierarchy means that everyone is unstable because they might get climbed over by others. Who would've guessed.

Free wi-fi? Free power? SOCIALISM!

I don't think this is America against democracy. Democracy is mob rule. I think this surveillance was originally a good idea, since all the data's out there and the bad guys are us…

“I am not, nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.” - Abraham Lincoln http://www.nybooks.com/articl…

Sweden: not only do they have the best death metal, but they have the best icon design. It must all originate in the Futhark.

This article made my day. The standardization/normalization of the web -- specifically, PageRank, Wikipedia, Facebook, and what's now totally recombinant "web design" -- has ruined…

It's full of Californians, increasingly expensive, and, thanks to heavy subsidies from state and parent-based funding, kind of filled with kind of useless people. Otherwise, it's g…

128k is enough for anyone. Especially now that we've moved to a GUI.

All civilizations must collapse eventually. Rome, Russia, Greece, and now us.

They should make these harder. We don't want too many outright incompetents voting.

I think older versions were more consistent. The newer ones show tacked-on ideas. I'm sticking with V6, despite its age and incompleteness.

Gmail used to have a single concept, and do very well at that. Someone thought up a vision for how an ideal simplified email client should work, and made that as a web application.…

And we've built a society on the notion that this kind of "stability" is best! Warning signs all around.

Similar to learned helplessness. Maybe Nietzsche wasn't so far off after all when he identified resentment as the scourge of civilization...

Intriguing. I've asked the experts: http://www.hou2600.org/hacking/can-you-break-this-code-from-... I know nothing about the Boards of Canada (except the soundtracks they did for "…