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> I heard he's leaving due to the health benefits changes! What happened?

Honestly everything on the market is so much better and cheaper than what we had even 2 years ago, that I don't have the energy to be disappointed. Remember when a portable compute…

eHarmony uses math! OKCupid uses reader-generated surveys.

It goes either way, depending on circumstances. For example, if someone has a new lover, the adulterer usually moves out. It's actually rare for someone to evict the other, since i…

Compared to "X-30 years", for all values of X, when the speaker is over 30, or quoting someone who is.

> Disclaimer: Not from the US, but married (~2 years~) and kid (~2 weeks~): You have more important things to be doing right now than hang out on HN. Take care of your baby, take c…

> Companionship and love have nothing to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government. Commitment and accountability to the person how bears your children, or who suppo…

Yeah, Google would never ship software where "Password is stored on disk in plain text" https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809#c48

Interesting to read your comment and dmoy's. On the one hand, compared to Amazon.com, Taobao sounds like a horrible shopping experience. On the other hand, compared to a shuk (or w…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ndLGhffwE

Supporters of the other team are far away and have discounted relevance to your life.

You are pushing a bit hard there. What is point of having a lasting impact? So that people can can life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Happy kids does not equal good aid? R…

I watched this last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj__w87vkow&feature=plcp "Social Mechanics: Bonding, Gratitude and Karma (Earthlings 101, Episode 7) " Poor people are ka…

If only there were a way to obscure the Kinect's ability to measure the room.

That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.

I had this problem. My parents never talked to me about how much things cost. I had a rude awakening when I learned how much basic rent was, even more so when I learned what my ren…

How does that explain social behavior among people working at different companies?

Fortunately, non-empty intervals of real numbers do not exist in computer science.

Why is this a website feature instead of a browser extension, where it would work for every site?

Form content recall is a native Chrome feature now.

Chemistry sets vanished due to anti-terrahrism BS, not safety concerns. And in the magnet case, larger magnets are plenty fun while still being much safer.

Pills are specifically formulated to cause vomiting if overdosed. Obviously it's not perfect, but medicines have a significant necessary purpose, unlike tiny magnets.

Why? Seems like a smart solution to a problem. We have designed many of the risks out of cars too, and I for one appreciate that.

Explain? With "do" and the coincidental naming of "return", and IORefs if you insist, you can write imperative bottom-up code in Haskell.

Holy wow. I had read about "Cat -v considered harmful", and I was familiar with cat-v.org, but I didn't realize the inspiration from cat-v.org's name.