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No. Are you?

I live in Songdo (the city featured in the article), and I think I have to concur with their dystopian tone. This place felt “fake” or “manufactured” to me in some sense that I cou…

He used to sit on the floor of his office with the lights off under a giant moving box and brainstorm math. Reference: personal communication

Glad you liked it.

Travel the world. Read Hacker News.

Dead customers can't be returning customers?

> Had it been a small non-profit, or some bootstrapped startup, they may have been able to get cheap representation via the EFF or some other group that defends the public interest…

>the owners are incredibly greedy not to accept a $3 billion cash offer You can look at this another way -- Maybe greedy would be taking the life-changing amount of money here, and…

Do you have a reference for this hypothesis?

3,000 people out of ~300MM in the US is not one tenth of a percent.

Yea, I get it. I'm just saying it's suggestive, not conclusive.

But that's a counterfactual. Once the pop occurs, the company could not have gone with a higher price and pocketed more cash. A rational actor should make the best decision they ca…

But it sort of does imply that. Here's the reasoning -- There's a liquid market of a lot of shares trading hands at $40+. Anybody who bought a share at $26 knows he or she can sell…

Maybe I'm fundamentally missing something, but I have a very hard time seeing why Twitter should care all that much about how much their stock 'pops' at open. Sure, they should car…

Suspension is not nearly enough. They broke the law and should be prosecuted.

XKCD did it first: http://xkcd.com/882/

Ha. Gone are the days where you pay for a game. You're paying for a service. Didn't you read your ToS?

You'd think so, but unfortunately, our government disagrees. https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-co...

I hate to be that guy, too, but if you're that paranoid, you probably shouldn't be using OS X or iOS, either.

> low taxes on dividends My understanding is that the low nominal tax on dividends is on top of the high corporate tax, which is 35%, so that dividends are taxed at a higher rate t…

In that case, the feds already have it ...

http://www.chessgames.com/~AylerKupp?kpage=35 Crackers are using phrases from literature and the bible. Trawling the rest of the internet is not far behind.

Why would you need to? The data is encrypted by the password.