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Yeah. And I thought this experiment was too stupid. I can't beleive how petty Hacker News has gotten to mark me down on this. Unsubscribe.

Are we really still at the point in "Landscape and Urban Planning" research that we need to verify that walking in the woods chills you out and helps you focus more than walking do…

The only upgrade Intel cares about is the purchase of a new system. That is why Intel is taking a revenue hit.

Yes, a repeated game like Iterated PD is a different game with a different solution. The Grim strategy for example.

Cooperating is strongly dominated by defecting in Prisoners Dilemma. This is an obvious and very basic game theory result. Game Theory models strategic situations and doesn't offer…

Not insightful. Offers a 60 year old argument about symbol systems and the need for more computational power (alone). I suggest reading Andy Clark's Mindware for a critical view of…

Ninja.

I really like the Dover book Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline. It adds historical perspective, makes you think, and teaches basic and understandable proofs.

I have a Samsung Captivate, an iPhone 4 and a Nexus S (developer phone) all purchased in Q4 2010. Nexus S updated until 4.1, iPhone is still current with iOS 7 and the Captivate go…

That's called retreating 'upmarket' and it usually (historically) fails. IBM is the exception. As clichéd as the Innovator's Dilemma is now, I find very few folks who have actually…

FYI: Krugman is a Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who is quite otherwise famous.

No, they hoped it wouldn't mater. Unless they've perfected the ability to predict the future they and everyone else won't know for quite some time.

$80 in 1956 is roughly $675 dollars today as calculated by CPI: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2480%20in%201956%20in%...

Accountability is what school offers you. You are forced to work the homework problems and then you really learn. You can do this on your own but without the social motivation it i…

What is really means is that the supply of workers at $15/hour greatly outnumbers the demand for workers at $15/hour.

Example: I was hired at the end of the dot-com bubble into a technology mega-corporation at the age I should have just finished college. I dropped out of state after studying Germa…

The hardware is that much better. 2x the cost but you don't have to carry a damn crap-top around that weighs 4 or more pounds and blows a fan when you move a window.

>Siri and the iPhone 4s is nothing new, Apple simply tied a lot of things together The original iPhone was nothing new component-wise but something wonderful is summation. This has…

I like to believe I own myself. I am not interested in any legal procedure where an official of the medical establishment can declare my personal ownership no longer valid and harv…

While this article didn't show anything, the mainstream argument about minimum wage causing labor surpluses is well enough explained on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini…

Programmers here are discussing if they choose to work unpaid extra hours or not. You don't make a country great by forbidding extra work regardless of the employee desires. You ma…

I prefer web services that link software on various apps across various devices which cache and sync content. The best example is probably Kindle which has a hardware device, vario…

It doesn't work for me at least. Part of the value of note taking is to flip through the book quickly and see the notes and then recall the most interesting parts. This seems lost.…

As a hybrid user who reads many books in both physical and digital forms, I have found that my preference for Kindle is directly related to how much I have traveled in the last mon…

I bought the first kindle and took it on a month long trip to Africa and re-read the Baroque Cycle on it. I jave a a few new Kindles since. I love most the platform aspect of Kindl…