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>Democracy does exactly that - it gives everyone the same vote, regardless what minority they come from. Therefore, it protects any minority for maximum possible extent. From my re…

I just want to say: HN is bursting with great articles today.

Right, book publishers are largely middlemen. Let the old ways die and a hundred new business models flourish.

Yep, lots of workplaces are like this. As you do care, get away from PHP ASAP. Beware of structuring and refactoring too much, or writing low-ROI tests. You must find balance.

At least now we have Mozilla Persona. Oh, and a shining example of good mobile fingerprint reader UX. Soon...

I bet it has lots to explore and "lovingly crafted" I can buy, but "gorgeous"? Not everything can be gorgeous. Maybe try "quirky" or "with character"? Anyway, buying to support, an…

When you become sure what the future price of BTC will be, please, do tell.

I believe proprioception is resilient to minor offsets or miscalibration, as I've seen such illusions at science exhibits--false hands that you're tricked into thinking is your own…

Yeah, virtual phone and virtual laptop seem ridiculous when you have an AR headset. There's even a virtual laptop keyboard... how could the glasses possibly detect your typing? Tha…

I'm writing a middlebrow (lowbrow, really) dismissal because this actually deserves it. This is... shamelessly phony. "Your laptop is now a hologram"?[1] Do I have to 3D scan my la…

I have to admit I'm ignorant as to what Java libraries I'm missing out on by not using a JVM language. I hear about this advantage a lot though! What are some examples of good Java…

To get back into your account you're provided backup codes that you're supposed to store somewhere safe. Otherwise, if your phone were stolen you'd be out of luck, yes.

Re: photos of you being posted: You can enable manual approval of you-being-tagged appearing in your Timeline in privacy settings.

I get that App.net is supposed about owning your own data, and sure there's a brief mention of PRISM at the top. But why I would want to write an app for it in the era of PRISM? Ho…

Really cute mechanism in http://507movements.com/mm_123.html The little pins hit the V in the center gear and cause it to shift to the other gear. Neat!

>Any legitimate business accepting payment in bitcoins can only receive bitcoins from other registered addresses, else they are black flagged and no longer a registered address. Th…

Do you know what GC does?

That is a really silly article. The author extrapolates hundreds and then thousands of years into the future.

That's CloudFlare responding to the influx of HN visitors. Site admin probably has their security setting too high.

Yeah, I just migrated from Linode to Ramnode (just in time!) and I'm quite happy with the performance. Great network connectivity.

And here I just finally finished migrating to RamNode for this very reason a week ago. Frick.

>Work, being a core part of life, is meant to be interesting, engaging, and meaningful. Otherwise, why are we wasting our time on this planet? A little early for April Fools'. Let'…

This looks great and that is a huge amount of effort. I have to ask about what I think is the elephant in the room: Surely you must have noticed that all your mountains are chopped…