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The odds that anyone will think "The Third World" is a good name for their virtual reality seem minimal at best.

>Most of those people have no other options. You don't want to fund people (in general; obviously there are outliers with 150+ IQs and fucked-up careers, I was one and, who knows, …

I'm in SV/SF, and this attitude is completely silly. That isn't to say that it doesn't exist, but I would say it's far from the norm, even in tech circles.

>It's obvious, since I'm 30 and not earth-shatteringly successful, that I have some kind of health story... What?

>Women don't face a severe loss of professional status if they put on weight, unless their employer enjoys being cleaned out in court. You know, there are a lot of things that happ…

>I don't understand - when you made this decision, did you expect that you were going to be good enough so that these features of chess (draws and deep, well-studied opening theory…

This is actually a good example of why I'm not particularly interested in chess anymore-- a game that's that heavy on draws and where so many of the situations are adaptations of w…

>It's why there is a centuries-old hatred of inherited wealth and position in all modernized cultures. Isn't the opposite true? We can certainly point to famous examples of heirs/h…

>One of the protections we have against unjust laws is that they are unenforceable. "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." --Abraham Lincoln

This movie isn't misunderstood or clever at all. It was originally exactly as dumb as people think it is (working title: "Bug Hunt On Outpost Nine), but the studio realized they co…

Good. Wearing Google Glass while driving should be banned. The people using cell phones while driving are bad enough.

I suppose the coming months/years will be when we see whether Facebook becomes the "backbone of the social Internet" or just another MySpace. I honestly don't know where the smart …

What kind of "ruin your life" failure do you think people on HN are at risk of undertaking? It strikes me that such levels of failure are very rare, at least among the set who even…

To be honest if you think there is any chance at all that this would happen you are completely disconnected from reality. The average person doesn't care about NSA surveillance-- j…

Roleplaying time! You've just been appointed to head the FBI-- congratulations, Director! Which of the following things do you want to send your agents after? * An international ma…

>We pour all our creativity, time, and passion into creating basically worthless products... we're in the business of making products that provide very little value to people. Yike…

What a devious headline. Imagine it as "Codebreaker for MI6 murdered after going to " and you'll spot the trick here.

>Most people in nearly every company from the PA to the CEO sits at a desk with a screen and makes clicking sounds 95% of the time. With the minor process of of 'talking' added, th…

The secret is that there is no secret. The more time you spend on generating ideas, the better you will be at it-- just like any other skill.

Terrible, sensationalist title. The actual quote from the article is "If we are not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era," which paints a very different picture.

Not everyone has a mortgage and kids later on in life.

>A lot of people we've funded have said they wished they'd quit their corporate job sooner. I don't remember any saying they wished they'd stayed in it longer. I feel like the fact…

This is a refreshingly good post.

This seems like a pretty logical step. I'm sure we've all seen cases where dash cameras on police cars help clear up ambiguity regard what really happened during a police stop. The…