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So the buyer donates to his friend, and his friend donates to him, and effectively no one ends up paying the computer tax.

Doesn't that completely validate the way in which I used Chomsky? I wasn't being negative.

your humor detection may be broken.

That wouldn't matter since we are talking about python, not assembly or C.

It is impossible to know what is outside of our lightcone.

The laughter is coming from the size implied by "cedar plank".

I would say that you have much more creative freedom as a tenured professor (if getting to that point hasn't completely destroyed your spirit) than as a startup founder. Look at so…

You also just described the major problem with the government artificially allowing such a thing as a limited liability (I'm talking about legal, not debt) corporation.

As the slit gets smaller the percentage of photons that are bouncing off of the walls of the slit as compared to the percentage that goes through directly raises.

I find this interesting because I actually had a friend who worked the night shift there one summer in college (around 4 years ago). He was paid hourly.

I don't see all the mystery: people no longer beat their kids to the extent that they did 60 years ago. Maybe if they made the request as part of a game instead of as an order from…

gnome-open for gnome users

Oh I don't know, maybe abstain from having an SEO category right on the front page?

Since the stake in Facebook was sold as part of a conditional advertising agreement, it shouldn't count as a "closing price".

>First, the [...] It has reversed before, why does it seem unlikely now?

Yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn.

He was talking about things like the YC summer/winter application forms, not the moderation system.

Lew Rockwell did a lot more to kill attention seeing as he was outed as the ghost-author of the [person we aren't allowed to talk about here]'s controversial newsletters.

Is this Hacker News or Valley Wag?

I actually read "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" a while back and all I could think the whole time was "binary search, binary search, huffman tree, something other than linear s…

it is a shame that find . -name "*{js,py,rb,php,html}" | xargs wc -l I guess {} globbing is bash specific?

That's where the kidding part came in.

His performance helping a grade school kid with his population project ? I kid, I kid.

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