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Print "e" is even faster, but also missed the point.

Ads are not the only model for providing free rides. Other Sustainable models exist: Peer balancining: producers earn free credits for consumption. This is how Internet backbone pe…

How is Facebook different from telephone service, or USPS, or an ISP, under your analysis? (Sidenote: USPS actually is ad-supported by bulk mail, and "heavy users subsidized" by pa…

Maybe you aren't giving Amazon the credit they deserve. MLP is huge in the hipster geek set that frequents HN. Cf http://www.google.com/m?q=my+little+brony

When I hear an odd conclusion with no evidence, I usually disregard the conclusion, not infer the existence of fascinating undetected evidence.

Of course Elon Musk built his own character around Tony Stark of the comics, so the development is circular.

Who wants to live in a world where the rules of life stipulate that only one person can meet the definition of success?

I recently last sentence is social democracy in a. nutshell.

SOPA gives all siezed domains to godaddy. It is corporate welfare for them.

Up next: red-octothorpe-free zones.

It also works with a as 7.

At the that scale, CPU and developer time are mostly orthogonal. If you need to crunch 1000x more numbers, you won't be able to program your way out of the problem. If your code is…

What does your scale mean? Paying nearly nothing to get to -80 is a great deal compared to speculative painful expensive surgeries and drugs.

Would you accept a free blog, email, photo album, and realtime chat software, with Web and mobile cliens, hosted in the cloud? OK.

Availability is an irrelevant metric for bulk storage. Durability matters. Also, less than 99.9% of sysadmins are worth their salt, are you sure yours is?

Amazon fails over data centers at least once a year in fire drill testing. Amazon has more backups, testing, and monitoring than 99.9% of small or midsized organizations.

My company's data center has suffered a fire at least once in the past 5 years.

To precise, pharmaceutical companies are concerned that bad counterfeits will harm the reputation of their products, which will cut into order volume and profits.

Why would you use a credit card company that locks yo right account, ever? Fraud is the merchant's problem, not yours. Fraud investigation is a courtesy you provide to merchant cus…

It takes less energy to accelerate an object away from both the Earth and sun (assuming your launch pad is on an appropriate spot on the Earth surface), than to accelerate an objec…

It is interesting how games differ from sports or academic contests. In sports, losing is OK because it makes you work harder to become stronger or smarter. In games, losing (or wi…

If your players are mutually anonymous, have the worst player play against multiple other teams each week, soaking up the losses. Each player gets their own Potemkin village where …

In the traditional Unix network environment, printing and billing is a famously hard problem.

I recently started reading now algebra book with a goal of understanding the Galois theoretical proof of his understanding unsolvability of the Quintic. This is generally considere…