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In general, I agree with that principle. However, egregiously stupid downmodding is damaging to the discussion. I wouldn't have started this thread over a post that clearly deserve…

I was mercilessly downvoted for a joke that at least 9 people didn't get. Here's the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576077 Just to spell it out for the people who failed…

Given the downvote mobbage that has just occurred over an appropriate post, it seems as if HN is turning into Reddit.

It's celebratory, which is relevant to the context of falling rents/property prices.

Why was this voted down?

A person's reproductive goal, both in evolutionary times as well as by modern standards, is to raise successful offspring. Parental investment is a strong predictor of this. Thus, …

Ok, but: 1. More women should be thinking for themselves and making their own decisions. Are they that unsure of their own judgment that they need to evaluate a man based on the im…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGgkA91hOb8

I think resilience is the most important trait; a resilient introvert can do fine. A high-IQ person is going to have difficult socialization early in life, and be behind the curve …

This sort of "freedom" has more to do with upbringing than IQ. A 115 IQ is more than enough brainpower to become a doctor or attorney and a person born in that range in a family wi…

The housing bubble would have crashed regardless of oil prices and availability. The severity of the crash might have been less if oil were abundant.

This is a great point. Given how I tend to get annoyed when people reflexively associate static typing with Java, I shouldn't be so quick to make the leap from OOP to mutable state…

-1 for making me lose the game.

The answer to this question depends on how you define OOP and FP. I think the answer is "sort of". The problem with OOP is that it encourages the proliferation of mutable state. If…

I've always thought it to be the exact opposite. Experience for a child is intermingled because children can often only perceive one plot-line. I remember that, when I was 5, I wou…

The issue with Wall Street overcompensation has more to do with what has happened to nearly every other profession in the past 3 decades: utter fucking meltdown. Academia: the job …

I'm obviously joking, but those kinds of "offers" have been given (and presumably accepted) in the writing world. A common scenario is an offer (usually given by scummy, second-rat…

I have an idea for a novel that is truly earth-shattering. It might be described as "fucking brilliant". I'm very busy and therefore don't have time to write it myself, and I obvio…

Wouldn't this depend on vesting?

A grant of equity or control, however, is irreversible.

Mark Zuckerberg is great for media PR, because he reminds the old guard of the '90s, when a talented but generally unimpressive 2x-year-old could sell a money-losing company for bi…

Simpsons did it. (* Well, Mr. Burns didn't technically buy it; he merely blocked it out.)

Founding a company would be the wrong way to go about exploiting this time hack. Too much relies on execution, so the possibility for failure is substantial. There is a much easier…

So your argument is that women don't have shitty, infantile tastes so much as shitty, infantile priorities, then?

The people who think this way are the ones that the rest of us are hoping the recession will push out of New York.