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You mean Thomas Paine. See also The Declaration of Independence for a great example (which Paine very much inspired).

It's a very small minority of hot sauces that use habaneros. The idea of ranking chiles on a scale of bad to good I find completely foreign. Like people, each one has its own chara…

Actually Oracle only made two patent infringement claims against Google -- rangeCheck wasn't one of them -- and Google didn't argue prior art against either of them. ETA: They argu…

I wonder. I run a website that has ranked on Google page 1 for the relevant search terms just behind Wikipedia for years now. But it's been on the backburner for some time; I've ba…

It varies. Tijuana is one of the more dangerous cities in Mexico with a murder rate of 107/100k from 2006-2010, but that's way behind Cd. Juarez with 485 over the same period. By c…

I've been using the free Instapaper iPhone app for some time, until it just completely stopped working. Trying to update, it would tell me that there was no network connection. Uh,…

Let's not mince words. Gruber wasn't insisting that no human being would ever line up for an Android phone.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash... Nintendo revived the industry in part by exerting quality control over every game released for the NES, and thi…

What exactly is this flawed argument of Rand's that you're rebutting, and where? It sounds like you think that somewhere Rand said all hardworking, moral people would become rich a…

I don't recall how she treated the fundamental questions of ethics in Atlas Shrugged but you might find her 'The Objectivist Ethics' interesting ( http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageS…

Your last statement is certainly true but it doesn't explain the vitriol. Most people don't have a positive bias towards, say, Plato. But you don't see at every single mention of h…

Rand certainly regarded intelligence as important but I don't think she regarded it as volitional. Of course one can volitionally act unintelligently, but for instance Eddie Willer…

Rand actually said at one point (sorry I don't remember where) that striking was a legitimate way for workers to correct a situation where they're being paid below market rate -- a…

It never ceases to amaze me the certitude with which people demonstrate their ignorance of Rand. This is complete nonsense. Rand never said making money is the highest value nor th…

The article argues every step for a reality-based ethics. And the author has one in mind, not surprisingly. Advocacy is not a crime and arguments are not invalidated by conclusions…

A person is not a conclusion. The article ends by advocating Ayn Rand's ideas and works, clearly. Whatever one's views might be of her doesn't invalidate everything that precedes.

If the variable is never used, why does it exist nonetheless? It's a valid question.

I hope it lives up to the potential. Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame went down that path and has barely been heard from since. OTOH he never got anywhere close to a $200m budg…

Pretty sure that would be the case regardless of language.

"because... they're lazy... they steal... they're incompetent" What about being trapped in a political system and/or culture that makes it impossible to live the life they imagine?…

Are you saying this is just an exalted critique of unitaskers (a la Alton Brown)? It seems to me there's more going on here: "Perhaps the majority of human activity can be reduced …

I can't say I've seen a link I disliked so much that I felt the need to hunt down something to help drive it off the front page. This incentive seems dubious, and if real, the bene…