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I don't know how they are doing business wise, but Criminal Records in Little Five Points is a great record store in Atlanta. Was quite bustling the last time I was there, fwiw.

Wow, this is fascinating, my family is originally from Cumberland (actually Frostburg, but...). My mom was born and raised there, but left as soon as she could. Everybody did, and …

"No one goes there any more, it's too crowded."

I would like to see more proof for this than just one guy saying he heard it from others. It may very well be true, but it would be far more convincing, to me, if some one with act…

Well, since none of what you just wrote is true of my position, I'm not sure who precisely you are talking about.

Yeah, I can see what you are saying here, but there are some of us around here who support more housing. My reaction was based primarily in just how intense and varied the no growt…

To be fair, UCD has built a ton of new student housing in that time frame, including the entire West Village complex. That may be what they are thinking of, even though I don't thi…

10 year Davis resident here, with generally quite Yimby tendencies. I would support something like this, as we do absolutely need more (and if possible) cheaper housing in town for…

The original name of Columbia University was King's College.

The headline is a quote that is specific to the discussion of her lawsuit against notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving. "Win" here means in countering denialism, not anti-Semiti…

I appreciate the serious answer, and I suspect we don't disagree all that much. I actively want a "systemic shift way from the attention economy" and believe that ad blocking is, s…

Um, did you actually read the article? It's precisely about the ethics of ad blocking. There is no "unspoken assumption." If content creators deserve renumeration for their work, t…

Yes, I do. I subscribe to a quite a few sites. Got anything else?

I don't understand what you are saying. Can I go to the bathroom during the commercial break while watching a football game? Do I have to scroll to the bottom of a page if I look a…

Put it behind a pay wall if you think it has so much economic value.

I doubt that anybody on HN is unfamiliar with the standard arguments for ad blocking. I find them persuasive, particularly the need to protect oneself from the security problems in…

Everyone reading the article knows the source of the fortune. The millions of people who have interacted with Sackler supported cultural institutions likely had zero idea of where …

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." —Balzac (apocryphal)

The quote is referring to Cherie Blair, not Tony.