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"a return to fact-based debate" When was this fact-based debating era?

Nextdoor sounds like it might be cool, but I don't know. It makes you put in a lot of information about yourself, including real name, real address, real email address, before aski…

"I'm not saying that if you sort investors by benevolence you've also sorted them by returns, but rather that if you do a scatterplot with benevolence on the x axis and returns on …

I think this excerpt is representative of the content that woah (reasonably, in my estimation) found xenophobic: "The author from Ukraine of all places probably wants soviet like d…

I didn't say that he was coming from a place of bigotry, in fact I said that he almost certainly wasn't. This isn't a technicality, it is explicit in the text of my comment. What I…

You haven't done me the courtesy of answering my direct questions, which is a shame. Nonetheless, I'll answer yours. The term blockade itself without a modifier seems like the best…

I didn't "connect what you wrote with anti-semitism." I asked if you can understand how something you said could make some people uneasy because it resembles a narrative frequently…

Without discussing politics, people with widely varying perspectives on Gaza understand that the present reality of life in Gaza poses extra challenges for those engaged in the inh…

Initially, I tried to see how stereotypes about blondes related to what you were saying and then I realized you meant "blind people."

I'm not trying to be incendiary and I'm left wondering why I'm receiving the downvotes. PG has made public statements pertaining to this issue but I'm not sure I understand his poi…

A few months back, PG tweeted: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/500161965881188354 Desmond Tutu: My Plea to the People of Israel. http://bit.ly/XlQ5YZ In the link, Desmond Tutu cal…

I noticed a typo: C: Assemby language is too low-level.

"Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas until the family moved to Houston after he completed seventh grade. He then went to The Kinkaid School, a prep school in Houston, fo…

This strikes me as spammy.

Interesting that this works with Blackberry and not iOS devices. Is this because the app store specifically rejected their app? If so, why?

Does anybody know where Siri gets its local search results from? The independent version of the app has been pulled from the App Store, and the only "answers" I can find to my ques…

How do you handle situations in which you can't tell if someone is legitimately undergoing hyper-growth or committing fraud? In a prior startup, I had my funds held indefinitely by…

I have spoken with people who answer the phone at the toll-free #s that are now provided to anybody signing up (or thinking of signing up) for a Google AdWords account, and I have …

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851864 I wrote "This "article" is misleading. The video which this link-bait inaccurately describes states "they visited Steve Jobs just to mee…

The link appears to be broken now.

This "article" is misleading. The video which this link-bait inaccurately describes states "they visited Steve Jobs just to meet him because he was a hero of theirs and they said t…

Just in from Facebook: We will more accurately represent our user data in the future. This kind of exaggeration is Finnish.