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I can't help but think the obvious solution here is the correct one: start talking politics with people IN PERSON. The signal to noise ratio around my kitchen table is a lot higher…

Isn't inequality a measure of efficiency, though? A day or two ago, the caffeteria workers were complaining about living in a garage and not being able to bring their children to w…

According to Index of Economic Freedom, Hong Kong has had the highest degree of economic freedom in the world since the inception of the Index in 1995.[0] Hong Kong is the 32nd lar…

Hey, just because you torture a child and they confess in the hopes of relocation to a prison in their own county doesn't mean they're not terrorists. I wonder if I can find any ex…

Hey thanks for correctly my typo when you quoted my.

Very clever. Your response is only 168 characters. If you were trying to fit it in a tweet, however, you'd have to make it only this long :)

There are several things happening here. I make a reference to a (rather famous?) book by Dale Carnegie, called How to win friends an influence people (that's the part after the as…

Yup, that's how you read a book. I would, however, cut the the paragraph as follows. Everything after is just an adversisement for the authors blog. When evening comes, I return ho…

My HN reading bot gives an 84% chance that your response was not written by a bot. * Dictated, not read.

The death of reading is threatening the soul The death of thinking is threatening the soul. • Bill Gates reads 50 books a year. • Mark Zuckerberg reads at least one book every two …

So I did a Google image search for "poisonous mushrooms" and it gave me a picture of "Galerina marginata" from Encyclopeadia Britannica[0]. According to the app: I think it's: Psil…

Agreed, NewEgg customer service is excellent. Easy returns. I've probably spent more in raw dollars at NewEgg than at Amazon, even though I've made maybe 10x as many Amazon purchas…

Interesting. I also find myself picking up tech from NewEgg more often than Amazon. And I recently ordered most of the supplies for a cocktail party I was having at Walmart and Bed…

Someone got shot by police? Not newsworthy, happens all the time. Politicians taking bribes? Not newsworthy, been happening forever.

Er, is this not illegal in the USA? It is in Canada: The Act prohibits false or misleading representations to the public as to the ordinary selling price of a product, in any form …