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I've been pretty disciplined about not shilling it too frequently. You can check my comment history. I don't enjoy it, but a well timed shill is what got it to the front of hacker …

Alright, if we're gonna do javascript listicles today, indulge me in a bit of shilling: 11) http://intercoolerjs.org lets you add an AJAX front end to your app with simple HTML att…

Ethnicity is almost always a biological phenomenon as well. Race and ethnicity are simply larger and smaller group categorizations of humans, both with reasonably accurate biologic…

A daily reminder that the US spends more per-capita on socialized medicine than any other country except Norway, and spends more on socialized medicine per capita than many first w…

Maybe it is off topic? But, on the other hand, this unflagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576865 Seems pretty arbitrary to me. That's the internet, I guess.

Balance in all things: a design should be minimalist where that is called for (the background, unimportant or repetitive elements, etc.) and should increase in visual complexity/de…

I would be interested in an economy that incentivized repair rather than replacement. Maybe make repairs tax-free or even a tax credit.

This headline is a good example of getting the target (you) to think past the sale: if you deny bitcoin is "something worse" you are implicitly conceding it is, in fact, a waste of…

We must cancel everybody's debt for the economy's sake, but we also have to do it in a fair way. Thankfully, we have Steve Keen, who has already worked out a solution: http://www.i…

They are stopping at the lower end of Dunbar's number. Smart guys.

> However, because older generations are typically in a good financial situation, having profited both from the pre-80's social contract, and often, from its disassembly - it's not…

nihilism is not liberating or joyful, that is squishy lastman talk it drove nietzsche insane, and he was much smarter and greater than any of us nihilism is terrible and heroic and…

> Realizing that you can live your life as you wish is amazing. You aren't taking nihilism seriously enough.

> And nihilism isn't a bad thing. You aren't taking nihilism seriously enough.

Negative trend 6: adopting a trendy, complex web stack before you absolutely have to when a simple one would get you to market faster

I apologize for self posting on HN, but I haven't been doing much PR for intercooler lately and I'm hoping some new people find it an interesting alternative.

No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability

Extraversion/Introversion is one of the big five personality traits and is ~50% heritable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#He... That's not to say introve…

intercooler should work in any browser that your chosen version of jquery or zepto works in. If you want to see if a particular browser is compatible with a particular version of i…