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Sanity does not include one specific moral system. For humans, it also does not include being bug-free given some morality, What would make you think so?

You are by far overestimating the general public interest into such topics. Also, there are enough people who think that banning internet for something they think is at least as mu…

So you have used up nearly 70% of your vocabulary to write this comment? I have to admit, your proficiency in English grammar is extraordinary given this.

I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of …

Nice video on their page. I especially loved their "caution fragile" marker -- on a rocket!

Thanks to emerging low-cost satellite launches (like from http://interorbital.com/ ), fun projects like http://sat.mur.at/ are already in the real of being possible. I may be an ho…

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It is already clearly recognizable at the default font size.

Until it was a problem worth noticing. Opportunity costs.

AFAIK you do not hire programmers in India, you hire a CMMI level 5 certified "team" having at least 50% Senior Software Architects on board. More to the point: I doubt that any co…

The live CD with an actually really cool configuration of zsh. Whatever linux distro you're using, get the zsh config from grml!

Creating another startup to reduce the number of pointless startups is obviously the correct solution to everything! The review may or may not be worth 100+ points on HN, but who a…

It works without problems on WinXP, there is no difference; throughout the beta-versions Firefox incrementally used some minor tweaks of Chrome (for instance, where the link-bar on…

Until further replication I think it is more probable that three months of waiting resulted in somebody using a text editor.

Hmm. Here in Central Europe this would probably read: "However the events unfold we can rest reassured that scientists have to acknowledge that any use of nuclear technology for el…

Even more important: Windows uses _very_ aggressive hinting for its default fonts, especially the new set introduced with Office 2007 and Windows Vista (Calibri, Cambria, Consolas)…

Strangely enough, your primary example always directed me to videolan in the past, and continues to do so. I very much prefer DDG these days, but those statements are just not true…

_worse_? I'd expect worst-case no-change, if it would hurt, the vendor would make TRIM a NOP. However, I'm always open for a source. (AnandTech for instance writes, TRIM just doesn…

The "hard problem" of consciousness only exists if you start out with a dualist prior. Otherwise it is mysterious in the same way as the non-symmetry of matter and antimatter is my…

Dualist priors have not yet been shown to be useful.

That depends very much on the question. If I just want THE ANSWER as my tld, and care about nothing else, then it IS the answer.