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Ah yes, hacker news, the haven for climate change denial. Be it denial that it's happening at all or denial that we should be doing something about it. I for one agree with netcat …

http://www.amazon.com/Superdistribution-Objects-Property-Ele...

Shht. computer 'scientists' are the ones that didn't make it into the physical sciences. No need to stoke their inferiority complex any further.

I had to laugh when I read the quoted students reponse to the wrong output. Just introduce a simple correction that fulfills the requirement for his particular test case. Why you'd…

The article complains about 'gimmicks'. People around here believe in producing tangible prototypes for $15,000 in three months, what can you expect but gimmicks?

P.S. The portals (I worked for one of those) are a step in the right direction as their convenient UI and STP lowers the cost of a transaction in terms of human effort, but other t…

Aims (1) and (2) are correct. If there are more 'exotics' to go around and they become more easily accessbile (i.e. low transaction fees), wouldn't there be more competition on the…

Hm, I said I found FX 'inspiring', but didn't say 'inspiring for a startup'. As I mentioned elsewhere my interest is more in P2P networks, and those elude classic funding strategie…

Huh, wouldn't be able to comment on that. Of course this being Hacker News my interest lies more in changing the way things work through technology , I thought you had ideas that w…

I have a vague idea what you mean by the 'inefficiencies'. I am wondering whether these would have manifested in the first place if IT had been given a more central role. It's a lo…

Well go read above-linked article and tell me whether Yale does a good job in the "Human Resources Investment" idea posited by the parent comment.

> I completely agree with this. I don't honestly feel people of good faith need to deal with complicated rules or institutions. But not everyone is willing to go that route, so thi…

No one needs the reasons spelt out for them. That the current system has deficiencies is more or less painfully obvious to everyone. I may read some of your stuff later.

The karma system is a popularity contest as discussed in the various Hacker-News-is-going-down-the-drain discussions that have been popping up here a lot as of late. To any one who…

Also see this quote from this [ http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.htm... ] article: "the purpose of Yale College is to manufacture Yale alumni"

No I couldn't tell, because I stopped reading at "human resources". But since you stand corrected I'll stand corrected too and wrote a thoughtful reply above.

This is pretty much what universities do, especially the more elitist kind. Alumni don't have a contractual obligation to pay x% of their income, but in practice they end up making…

> "Human Resource Investment" Oh yeah, humans just love to be called 'resources'.

> some sort of trading system that mixed FX with a whole bunch of wacky synthetics to allow you to easily take positions on things which are normally more complicated Heh, what's t…

The Wall Street Journal disses Wall Street!? ZOMFG

You are right as are the other commentors. However it seems that the difference between a 'social news' site and a forum aren't huge, i.e. forum software could be spruced up with a…

Sorry on the first 10 or so pages I saw just blah blah. Don't spam the forum here if you have nothing to offer.

I've sometimes wondered whether IT isn't becoming the 'core' part of a business. I.e. the one that's most complex and drives the competitive edge and success of a business. I have …

If you wan to mock someone why not mock the original post that's asking for new economic models?