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> The whole price of Bitcoin is an illusion that they use to get people to keep buying. It's the result of a bidding war. The price of everything is an illusion according to the Su…

Have a look at my project Shapesmith - http://shapesmith.net/ It's going through a major transition at the moment ( http://shapesmith.net/2013/03/06/ProgressUpdate.html ), and not …

The Guardian has that as well http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/datablog/interactive/2012/au...

I pledged for pretty much the same reasons, even though I'm not overly keen on a sword fighting console game. Perhaps you're right and that there's just not enough interest.

Is this not too insular? I get & agree with some of the arguments in favour of surrounding yourself with other innovators. In the same way that the Pixar building is designed to fo…

'Anyone who [...] uses critical judgment and appropriate tools to make evidence-based decisions' Except for the experimentation part, that could describe a lawyer. Which begs the q…

They have a twitter bot that responds to everyone who tweets about the issue - "we are investigating these reports and will provide more information as soon as we can.' Their twitt…

I'm talking to someone now in their live chat so that I have a record of contact that I need to file the complaint.

The world is not a zero-sum game - you don't necessarily give corporations more power if you reduce the size of government. That power could be distributed to citizens. And removin…

What happened to "No taxation without representation"? This would skew the government even more towards rewarding the rich - increasing the size of the government-as-a-service mark…

It is really disturbing that you need to pay to get access to your own government. The greatest trick the Lobbyists ever pulled was replacing "corruption" with "lobbying" in the di…

"Nobody will even notice!" Just because you might not doesn't mean everybody won't.

The most interesting thing in this article is the big jump in the average review score for the Galaxy S during September. It would be great to understand why that happened, and if …

http://www.socialcaddy.com It supports LinkedIn, Gmail and Facebook. I find it really useful to catch up on things I miss out on in the streams...

The question around the [ir]rationality of markets is irrelevant. Markets determine the cost of borrowing. If California wants to lower the cost of debt, or maintain the current (l…

There's another article on HN today that could be of interest to you, where signups increased by 60% when they moved signups from the front page. YMMV. http://visualwebsiteoptimize…

Which Wikipedia article? There's a difference between propping up a failing bank (which I believe Friedman would be against) and providing liquidity to the banking system when a ba…

Downvoting it without posing a counter-argument doesn't help me in examining my own subjective beliefs. If I'm wrong, I want to know why.

If you watch his "Free to choose" series ( http://www.ideachannel.tv/ ), Friedman blamed the Fed for the depression because they didn't keep the money supply stable. Because of ban…

I would say that having "interrogation techniques" crossed out is a pretty good indication that the author's state of mind in an interview situation is aggressive and domineering.

"And the truth is, simplicity does not sell". BS. Some people prefer simplicity, some prefer complexity. I'm not sure where the median is, it might be on either side. Preference ca…