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Wow, years later, even after her de facto demotion at Google, people still think she's some kind of product genius? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028615 This is a hilarious …

Proof that I agree: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=788702

I hope you're still here! > Can you name some ways to actually do this? I'd love to hear about them, but have never actually seen a system like that. > Even if there was though, be…

It looks like this whole story was manually pushed off the HN front page for some reason (or it was flagged and the sorting algorithm takes this into account?), but I just wanted t…

> What's the evidence that libraries serve the poor more than universities? I take it you've agreed universities are skewed towards the middle class and higher in terms of direct e…

> the idiots who made that movie used very similar language to the OP > immediately assume assume the OP was one Come on. This is an obvious case of unwarranted guilt by associatio…

We really need to separate certification/credentialing from education. Agreed. I was giving possibilistic the benefit of the doubt. If some need access to a lab to fully learn a su…

> terrible article > Awfully muddled thinking > right-wing propaganda > laughably poor argument > propagandist rant All of the above were unnecessary. I'll address the rest of your…

I agree hands-on learning in a lab is important. I'm not suggesting everyone should stop this and only read books instead. But learning in a lab doesn't need to be tied to a $100,0…

To be perfectly clear, I'd love to cut military spending, bailouts, drug war spending, etc. This article was about a state funding issue, but I'm fine leaving that aside, since ult…

The top story on Hacker News right now, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3607217 (also the link I start the post with), explains one of the problems with doing that. As many imp…

Thank you, and I agree with you. I'd hope nearly everyone agrees with what you said. The way I see it, libraries are so incredible, and so important, that even the mighty universit…

Respectfully, I don't think I've done what you say I've done. I say "they're not the same thing" because, as I said in the post, a lot of people lump them together as "investing in…

While this post focuses on universities and libraries, and I'm serious about preferring university cuts to library cuts, obviously there are plenty of other things that could proba…

Yeah, it's hard to attack libraries. They're one of the best examples of a truly equitable program I can think of. I'd much rather cut even university funding: http://news.ycombina…

I'm not trying to be pedantic here. If this actually did get blown up the way I describe, it'd be indicative of some serious problems in journalism today.

I really hope this works. It'd be fantastic to see this become a reliable way to fund new adventure games, especially if they're from Tim Schafer.

Is this a defense for Android's poor responsiveness (often blamed on a lack of hardware acceleration), or is there some other context I'm missing? Doesn't this make Android look ev…

I'd be curious to learn more about your thinking on this. A few years ago you were heading in the other direction -- i.e., you were talking about how people could or should start c…

I don't think you understood my post at all. Instead it looks like some Mac fanboy(s) somewhere made you angry, and you're responding to me as if I'm one of them.

Since it obviously doesn't come with OS X, in a very important way the IdeaPad doesn't match the Air at all. I know I'm not alone when I say I'd gladly pay a lot more than $100 for…

Leaving aside the arguments about prostitution for a moment, I think it's fair to say that a number of these women (not all) are uncomfortable with being prostitutes and are only d…

This is one of those things that can amuse, impress, and horrify you all at the same time.