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I spent a thanksgiving back in junior year with a japanese student (along with a jewish bro) in my american uni smoking chronic and covering led zepplin guitar in between turkey ea…

Aside from the abusive Web 1.0 pelting with adverts, with an added twist of virtually demanding 20 bucks, this site enhances the experience by having custom insults by the owner th…

It's stunning that someone in Florida can live off of the profits of mines in Madagascar, fast-food restaurants in California, steel mills in South Korea, and insurance companies i…

What effect has it had on you as far as going from just posting an essay to posting an essay and having it deconstructed? Has instant criticism made you more reticent in what you s…

My sampling of Jersey was high school and my early twenties, so I have an especially bad memory of the area. There was also a completely irrational market and bid up of low quality…

You are dead on about Europe and NJ. Nothing worse than Jersey dumpster diving, especially when you are unaware that is what you are doing. Some friends of mine went to Europe and …

I purged my dell laptop of xp and installed ubuntu over it. Love everything about it except the loss of wireless. It even gave me 9 extra gigs on my hard disk, 6 more than the adve…

you can't use books to make clean water, except by ripping out pages and using them as water filters I think you would do better by using books as kindling to boil water, killing a…

No argument there.

The maniacal obsession with unassailable formal proof gives mathematics its credibility, above all else. There is a lesson here for all other endeavors that seek truth: Rigor uber …

every time a human being does not get offspring because his/her desired mate gets snagged by a more appealing specimen that's evolution in progress No, that would be natural select…

Sure, makes some sense. What interesting questions/problems are you looking at these days?

Sounds like a great method to produce a mechanic but not a creator, i.e. an American Idol winner rather than a Bob Dylan.

Democracy has always been non-rational Seeing the US House of Representatives in action recently seems to support this statement. What alternatives do you propose?

So it's $65 million if you believe that Facebook is worth $15 billion. I don't. Why should anyone?

Cripe, more than the US president less all the attendant duties. A functionary making that much...obligatory greenspun (nsfw) http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.ht…

Thanks, you didn't come across harsh at all. I cringe on re-reading that comment and wish it could be purged, but sometimes we have to live with our actions...best, regardless.

people are accomplishing absolutely zero in their lives so they need the fake feeling of accomplishment and respect from hitting level 60 in WoW. If we re-engineer society so that …

And what does it matter? Oh, are there consequences... http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt

No, I was apologizing for an offensive post I made awhile back.

Further, how is an orthodoxy/political belief murderous? I thought only people could commit murder.

So a muslim, atheist, and former christian preacher turned atheist walk into a debate hall... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oocFLfoT0Q4

Why does this worry you so?

Sorry, yters. No harm intended. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430118