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It sounds like blackmail. I'd be just as embarrassed using Loopt as I would be using Groupon.

Intel cut France out of their map of Europe (supposedly) when France restricted encryption tech. They want a repeat. I love the double speak about undermining the public good.

I like the approach that Summerhill and Sudbury students tend to follow: after finishing "high school", they work in the world, thus earning money and gaining experience, and then …

I also overdosed on TV and got rid of it around college time. That is, until Netflix came along. Now I'm thinking about unsubscribing from Netflix. I like what he says about needin…

Silicon Valley isn't a city. San Francisco is. I don't know whether Jacobs wanted to encourage such factors --- she turned city planning on its head with her book in 1960, and it w…

Sounds like they are ignoring Jane Jacobs. Her four rules for a flourishing city area: the area must serve more than one primary function, and preferably more than two; most blocks…

That was the drama the author threw in. It was cheap.

How did Sputnik come into the picture? I didn't see Sputnik mentioned by the NSA article. It just said that the messages were received from outer space: "Recently a series of radio…

The other thread states one problem is mean comments. A good solution for this is to require the use of real names.

This is really ironic given http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2381608

I used to alternate between sitting and standing. I don't need to any more. The trick for me, figured out by a therapist, was to build the proper muscles, and to always hold proper…

I look forward to reading his online book. There are quite a few interesting books from the 60s on this topic, including Paul Goodman's "Compulsory Miseducation" --- which you can …