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Jesus Christ. Suppose he is being treated unfairly by the mods. Is that not worth complaining about? I don't give a crap about some silly "downvote every comment complaining about …

Well, someone's having a party.

PSA: one man's pedantry is another man's pro-tip.

One imagines they do. I'm not sure that's what's going on here, though.

I vouched for (undeaded) your comment, since I think the flagging/downvoting runs contrary to the principles of discourse we're (at least implicitly) celebrating here, smelling of …

> Combine sugar and sugar and sprinkle with the sugar. What is this quote from?

This is almost certainly the result of how popular articles/books by Malcolm Gladwell, etc. have been, which goes back a long ways (The Tipping Point was published in 2000), rather…

Source re: motivations?

I have a design background myself, and frankly, you're not going to do much better for flat screen-based UIs than buttons, scrubbers, tables, lists, scrollviews, etc. This has litt…

I'm not sure why you'd expect a radical reimagining of UI for touch. Touch UIs look largely the same as WIMP UIs because there isn't a radically better way of presenting informatio…

Mobile OSes haven't been ready to accommodate desktop-level use cases. Apple is moving in that direction with iOS on iPad. Once they get there, convergence makes a lot more sense.

Agreed. I think it makes perfect sense to have a phone that can plug into a tablet or any other form factor. The thermals might not let you run an iPhone-in-tablet as fast as a ded…

...which was submitted by the same account.

There used to be. Not sure what happened to it.

>I didn't know that the US military budget is a third of what it was 60 years ago. It's a little over a third of what it was 60 years ago as a percentage of GDP . And this is in li…

I think you're absolutely right that fear is the biggest problem a writer has to overcome, and that many of these products appeal to the fearful writer. At the same time, I do reme…

You’re rather dismissive and uncharitable, aren’t you?

I was merely giving you the clearest possible examples, since you seem to be confused about what possible harm nepotism could cause. Sure, in some situations, it may be ambiguous w…

Suppose it is clearly the wrong business choice for your friend's company to acquire your company. Suppose a friend promoted you over someone else who was vastly more qualified, an…

I was saying her categorizations are cartoonish, as in overly simplistic morally and sociologically.

> It's so interesting to me that your critique went to group politics and identity, though. Rand was consistently negative about groups and big government cronyism. She treated her…

The fundamental problem with Rand's ideology is her cartoonish categorization of everyone that isn't Galt-esque or an enthusiastic, hypercompetent support person as evil looters/pa…

> The problem isn’t the fluff we read online. The problem is that when you go long periods without reading novels, it’s harder to pick up a novel and enjoy it. Reading fluff online…

Do you have a short list of book recommendations?