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This observation lends weight to my naked women theory. That extravagent P has arms, legs, a head and ... :P

Surprising discovery about the Voynich manuscript - it contains hundreds of pictures of naked women, probably outnumbering the pictures of plants. Maybe the focus on botany is misg…

Or at least cause you to consider the risk of loss compared to the value of using the software while not panicking when you receive a spam email with a suspicious looking xls file …

Indeed. Or even "don't click on suspicious emails or visit suspicious websites" which are actually always harmless. How about simply "don't run a program you don't trust" and we wo…

It helps to highlight our cultural biases. In some cultures pornography is more acceptable than homosexuality. These are just different prejudices that different people hold. It's …

They're probably just trying to be sensitive to their audience and sponsors. Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.

"suburban moms in mid-west buy those stocks" There's no need to blame. Those investors are trying to make free money without doing productive work or even investing in productive c…

Ha. I did exactly the same thing with a dryer years ago but with a neodymium magnet from a hard drive head actuator.

In other news - China Global Warming: Made in America?

Industrial interest in the moon is a good thing for the development of space travel and discovering new things. Also, you might find America's human rights abuses to be worse than …

After a century of failing to manage its economy, Argentina continues to fail to manage its economy. In other news, water is wet.

I don't think this is a valid argument. It seems to be "I'm right because I believe people in the future will agree with me". Maybe so but the author can't know that until the futu…

The same goes for a lot of stats about America. But who notices Israel's massive per capita tech industry?

MegaUpload, Silk Road shut down by US government. Piracy, drugs, child porn, online gambling. These are things Americans feel are OK to silence. Inciting violence (they have deadly…

How many people are afraid to walk down a dark alley at night? That's a freedom we should have but plenty of people are forced to get a taxi or stay home because of a real fear of …

Without the link from his own site we can't tell who even claims to have done the typing. Someone who isn't PG may have all sorts of reasons to fake it. Gentle suggestion - if you …

Thanks. That's an important link to know where it came from.

Is there a way to verify this is actually Paul Graham writing, not someone else who reenacted it based on the published essay?

My bank requires a 4 character password with no letters or special characters! Oh wait, a PIN doesn't count?

Nor does glass or plastic-coated aluminium. There are lots of shiny things that people don't want in their jewelry. If diamond were as common and cheap as glass, we'd probably see …

Who's an early adopter? Before December, every single day in bitcoin's history was a good day to invest and be an early adopter. But nobody knew at the time. They could have lost e…

One of the Therac-25 victims died 3 months later from cancer. Presumably the same cancer they were trying to treat, and thus avoided needing a hip replacement for the radiation dam…

It's easy to blame the government but the majority of Americans vote for the government they have or none at all. That means they are either happy with it or they're incompetent an…

Here's how missing the news affected me: When I finished my CS degree, I decided have a go at postgrad in another field. I reasoned that if it didn't work out, I'd just quit and ge…

Has Hacker News cost billions of dollars in programmer productivity? :P