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I'll take mudslinging and rumor-mongering over harmful subsidies to e.g., corn.

Companies need to understand that they should seek revenue before customers and vanity metrics.

"It was officially adopted as a United States military bolt-action rifle on June 21, 1905, and saw service in World War I. It was officially replaced as the standard infantry rifle…

Few people truly understand the semantics of a language, but everyone knows why indexing from 1 is bad.

It's nice how you've written him off entirely because he likes one thing and not another! You completely disregard the possibility that some people are only ever fully engaged and …

It seems to fit better with "winner take all" instead of "first-mover advantage"

Oh yeah he asserted that question so hard. unf.

The Dyson ones I've seen have only ever shot cold air on my hands and pushed my hands against both sides of the dryer. Maybe they've been horribly misconfigured at all 3+ places I'…

I don't think they allow, expect, or calculate an unbounded positive as t->infinity. I don't expect we'll get caught in a local minimum - we've done a decent job breaking out of th…

The article talks about extending suffering , not life. Few people who think they will live forever expect to do so wheezing with every breath. Shakespeare's sonnets are artfully c…

I'm a hypothetical poor person, so I must feed myself on cheap subsidized carbohydrates, which leave me feeling hungry, or eat an amount that sates me after working one to two norm…

It might be clearer if you just said the first lifetime $500k will cost you $60k in taxes and your next $500k would cost you $75k in taxes.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350

A hypothetical situation where this works out: Torrent site serves up 1000 pirated DVDs, making $20 in the process. Only 1 out of those 1000 pirates would pay the $10 required to b…

The article's "At the end of one sprint, a QA dude was complaining about the drop rate of a specific item being absurdly insane, and therefore UnFun. I looked at the code, and twea…

Kept adventure gaming alive? There have been plenty of great adventure games since 2001, but this article was mostly about life support... (It's also always worth mentioning the co…

So are buildings.

If there aren't enough startups solving problems, there's room in the portfolio for a few "$BCs".

On some level, yes, but companies don't magic employees into existence. It doesn't matter too much if the Go language comes out of Dogpile or Pets.com instead of Google, does it? I…

But what Valve is doing is an improvement over the status quo, and social games are a regression from the status quo. TF2, by and large, didn't get worse by letting more people pla…

There's a meaningful distinction between 'pay to play' "can't wait" farmville, 'pay to play' random drop, tradeable, gameplay-available goods a la tf2, 'pay to play' cosmetics a la…