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> Historically this has been true, but nowadays it's not (at least in the US). Not true in 1990. Very true today. The Bush tax cuts inaugurated the current era of class warfare. I'…

Previously: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/zuckerberg.html

A presentation by SPJ left me with the impression that FP should be pointing to Miranda and several other languages that became Haskell, rather than to Haskell itself.

Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164391 Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024101

Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668198

The Cato paper that Branson references was written by salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald and is available to read online at Cato's website: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_i…

The equivalent is actually "A copy of Oracle at home." SAP started with just the ERP product.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans It's the one with this disclaimer: "New activations only. Available exclusively in-store at Walmart, on Walmart.com, and T-Mobil…

No.

apropos: http://valerieaurora.org/kitchen.html

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...

Yeah, that's what I'm using now.

I'd buy this if I could use it as an MPD client.

This is similar to the complaint 37 Signals had with Get Satisfaction: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else

$50 to the person in the office who can keep a recruiter on the phone the longest using only Emacs Eliza. I think you should take it to the next level and use the zippy quotes from…

Three: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385608n

Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now. Right now 14 of the top 15 stories are about Dennis Ritchie.

Nietzsche isn't calling you a slave. He's saying that your morality is a slave morality. Meaning your moral system was invented by people who were, in fact, at the time, slaves. Ho…

Harvard is not fungible.

1. You're attacking a straw man, which actually is a fallacy. 2. Even if the passage you cited were about "getting less in an absolute sense", there's still no fallacy. zafka alrea…

It was a late 80's / early 90's thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism#History