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It all suggests derpmeister should be taken as a less reliable source than Blizzard, which does count against your comment. Sure, it's not a deductive proof that Blizzard is right …

From the article: > This is beyond my wildest dreams of what I expected to make. Therefore the app creator did not have an accurate perception of what money he would make. Therefor…

>Either they believe in paying a bigger share or they don't. First, They believe in rules to enforce everyone paying a bigger share, and are lobbying to bring that about. There's n…

Well, we can probably agree on downvoting them, even if we don't agree on their value (I don't think I'm ignore value - I just think there are more potential sources of it)! - the …

Look, here's the disagreement: >You've made this claim (thought without specifying why it's superior to the existing methods), and yet ignored the simple fact that a TIR post is ju…

I can't see that your argument engages with anything I've said. I've spelt out a plausible mechanism by which some comments would add value to the community (by preventing deterior…

Well, one of HN's aims is to avoid the eternal september that is very much affecting reddit at the moment. Given that, superfluous jabs at reddit might actually be effective in mai…

I don't tend to respond to ungrounded accusations of bias (and to pre-empt a claim, it does not follow that it's inappropriate to choose not to devote much time listening to member…

That would be a representative of Dell, acting on behalf of Dell, arranging for payment to be made by Dell.

>I dont know when the stoped exactlly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act 'Many commentators have stated that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s repeal of the affilia…

That might be a start, but probably only if banks were suitably sized and regulated in the first place which wasn't the case this time. Better bank regulation / breaking up banks g…

Two points: 1. I wouldn't think for a second that Michael Portillo is a reasonable unbiased analyst here. 2. How do we prevent individuals from spending recklessly? Seems like gove…

So Mark Zuckerberg wears the regulation silicon valley uniform to a meeting with bankers wearing their regulation wall street uniform? I'm not sure what the interesting content to …

Look, there are several issues here. There's a narrow semantic point. On that point (which I think you explicitly denied), you can have monopolies over market segments. Personally,…

> I think its fair to say most peoples successes or failures lie solely on themselves. If that were true, wouldn't you expect economic and social mobility to be much higher?

Sorry, but a pet peeve of mine is people claiming 'that's a fallacy' on the internet, without much grip on the kind of reasoning or underlying argumentative structures are work. Su…

> To say that they have a monopoly over their products is not a cogent statement as every manufacturer has such a 'monopoly'. Well, I don't know what you mean by 'cogent', as that'…

Why do you say this? A market segment just is a market according to the dictionary definitions. And legally, a lot of EU competition law concerns exactly how one individuates such …

I know, but on a (probably unfairly) uncharitable reading his advice is 'don't worry, that girl who didn't want to kiss you is a loser, and so are the people who don't want to hang…

The sentiment of the article is great, but a lot of it just doesn't quite ring true. When the auther starts going on about other people being losers, and him being a winner, becaus…

>"Predict the weather more than 10 days in advance", I should have said. That's false too. Predicting climate doesn't require predicting the weather. Compare: suppose you have a sl…

>if we were actually capable of understanding what was causing global climate change, we would be able to predict the weather This conditional is (obviously) false. Given your argu…

I'm in the same position of antonse - can you spell it out a bit more? Suppose I'm a student studying course X at institution Y with course textbook Z - I sign up to Boundless, and…

I'm sure this is a personal thing, but I agree completely - and I think it's often self-imposed. It's only after leaving academia that I can accept that successfully completing my …