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"The money that would otherwise go into a second vehicle, fuel, insurance, and maintenance instead goes toward higher quality food." I love this. It shows how so many of our lifest…

This is hacker news, chances are 1/6 he knows what a revolver is .

hmm that's a thought. I think it would be more sociopathy than psychopathy if anything. Then again, it could be that I'm an introvert who's read too much stoic philosophy meanwhile…

So what is it called if you have every single one of these symptoms, except actually being depressed? I find myself not caring at all about what others have to say, how they feel, …

I think some areas depend on city size. Moving from New Mexico to (southwest) Virginia I realized that small-town southern cities are extremely backward, especially with racism. Ho…

The school's reaction is truly ridiculous. I remember telling my grandfather about the explosives my friends and I would make when I was ~13/14. He responded with "You ever see wha…

What, you're not into this kind of thing? http://goo.gl/ZvOlp http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/08...

> the city REFUSES to re-zone for higher density Call me crazy, but that's what I love about SF. It feels so much more (friendly? approachable?) than other cities because of the ar…

Well said. Those are the two opposing sides of labor in capitalism. As Marx pointed out, a company does best by commoditizing labor. To make a worker as replaceable as possible is …

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had…

Me too, then I Googled it: https://github.com/Moodstocks/redisk https://github.com/quirkey/redisk

> I'd like to read antirez's opinion about this. It looks like he already made his own (3yrs ago): https://github.com/antirez/Bigdis > in redis you have to design how you are gonna…

I completely agree with this. My grandfather is a millionaire...apparantly. I never would have guessed it. He drives a near-broken-down 1980-something honda. He takes frugality to …

I bike to school and work in 20 degrees because my dad wants me to learn the value of a dollar before I'm in the "real world" (he also started me investing pretty early). I have 0 …

Looking at all these comments has me wondering: Why is it that as soon as a startup is acquired we immediately abandon it as if it's going offline tomorrow ? I first remember notic…

> Every mother participating in the study spent enough time with their kids to develop the skill tested, while just about half of the fathers did It seems like this data explains t…

Back then in the U.S. and Europe, black tea was pretty much the only thing they knew as "tea". Of the different types of tea, black is the least healthy and most caffeinated, which…