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The state governments will get the money back when the federal workers get back pay. Contractors are a different issue though.

That sounds very interesting, thanks.

Can you elaborate why do you think so? Also, http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

>Cue people commenting below how Nokia will recover, and you will understand how people think Blackberry can recover too Reality is much more nuanced than that. Remember when Apple…

>Did Forbes hire a 12-year-old fanboy to write this It's one of their blog contributors who are probably paid per story or per click who write any flamebait garbage as long as it g…

>On the other hand, India has a huge population and its inevitable that it will have more than a few geniuses/great persons China 1.3B population India 1.2B population Africa 1.0B …

You didn't include the real big guy of Google(who died in an unfortunate accident later) who was Brin's and Page's professor and mentor. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev_Mo…

I think Google has been first in implementing the proposed EME standard in HTML5 video. The ARM Chromebooks have been already using it to see Netflix video since a few months. Netf…

>Most imitating efforts will need to be redone or abandoned to look current. And what will happen if people try to imitate iOS 7? >Presumably, Apple has a few new patents for iOS 7…

>This idea of "adding" sentences is ridiculous, and my guess is it's only (ab)used as a way to force people into agreeing to declare themselves guilty, and the prosecutors going "e…

The signing keys are the weakest link in the security infrastructure and are essentially the keys to the kingdom. We have seen this happen repeatedly, I think it's time for all com…

I like RMS(even attended one of his talks, was fun) and he has been surprising prescient about many things. But he still seems to be falling victim to the "Smarter people are more …

Only if you forget all the financial headlines during August 2008 through 2011.

I figured from your post that you were complaining about some new thing you noticed in Windows 8.1 from the live stream. Looks like I was mistaken and you were actually complaining…

Have you actually used Windows Phone or Windows 8 for any length of time? The animations are very subtle on actual devices and work very well with the flat look. Can't speak for th…

Live video of the keynote at BUILD http://channel9.msdn.com/ Live blog http://live.theverge.com/live-microsoft-build-2013/ Ballmer being his usual trademark excitable self. http://…

Honest question, isn't there NSA written code in Linux via the SELinux patches that were integrated?

This would be much less of a problem if we could collapse comment trees like on Reddit. It would be just easy to minimize and ignore. I think someone made an extension for that.

There is only one law which says exclusively. The "primarily" thing is an interpretation of the law by IRS.

No it's more nuanced than the 51% number. The actual law passed by Congress says "exclusively for social welfare". IRS interpretation changed that to "primarily social welfare" a f…

That comment appears to be highly insightful and very relevant to the topic being discussed here. Low effort content eventually displaces high effort content in high traffic websit…