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It's tough to try to spin a $5b fine on a large company as a 'win' for consumers, but I see you'll give it a shot. Isn't this tacit admission that the different soda brands can onl…

Don't just thank them. If you cannot support with your time, send them new hardware and beer.

Your statement begins with the presumption "Men discriminate against women." and flows from there. You and github begin counting, and see high representation in the tech industry b…

A case could be made that HFT is beneficial to society. The author is incapable of demonstrating exactly how HFT is "bad" beyond just claiming it's "bad". I submit that the speed a…

mmmm barriers to entry. Collect that market power! I submit that anymore, about the only barriers to entry left in any industry are regulatory barriers to entry. Do you know how sc…

Starbucks gift cards strike me as an odd choice. I can't help but think this choice was made to assist in a certain type of scam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6175294

GoDaddy and Paypal have every incentive to bury their shoddy security practices and deny everything that the OP is claiming, to avoid a PR disaster. They might quietly return to th…

One of 7 Buzzfeed-headline-style pages for system administrators you won't believe! Seriously, glances is nice, but I generally use tmux with a bunch of panels, showing stuff like …

Not to quibble, but 'poor college student' is a statistical oxymoron. I do agree though that cryptocurrencies offer great promise for 3rd-world economies and is a democratizing inf…

The politicians would simply carve out exemptions for themselves. I have seen no evidence that .gov has ever been this responsive to the impact of the laws they write.

... And the perpetually offended will be offended. It's time to quit caving to the speech police.

That and http://htmlgoodies.com I learned everything I know about web development from htmlgoodies which has been around for long before w3schools came on the scene.

Shows how much we've declined. Kids nowadays use graphing calculators in JHS algebra. We had no calculators, and calculus in my JHS by the 10th grade.

Some people are hell-bent to kill a deal in order to demonstrate their worth. This happens sometimes with lawyers, and these 'ambitious' deal-killing lawyers are toxic to work with…

It seems to me that a good line to draw regarding overreach by the government is to determine who or what they're efforts are protecting. Terrorism laws were sold to us as necessar…

ep@raxx.info - thanks