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Infant mortality rates are not a fair metric for comparison because the point of viability is significantly earlier in the US that in most other countries in the world. When adjust…

I think you're contradicting yourself when you argue that economics is not a science and yet also argue that central tenets of modern econ have been "proven wrong." By what means a…

I think he was using "techno" as an umbrella term for electronic music. Lets be honest -- techno, trance, electro, progressive etc. it's all ultimately pretty much the same thing.

If GM's value speculative then Telsa's valuation is completely pulled out of thin air. Just a few months ago Tesla was actually losing money on every car they sold. Now they're ask…

His primary example of how Google is big and evil is actually an industry-wide problem, The issue of internet royalties for musicians has been contentions, largely because most int…

No -- you didn't say anything about education level, which is tangential to GPA. What you said is "judging on the basis of GPA alone is class discrimination. Poor people don't stan…

You've gotta be kidding me. Being poor prevents you from having a high GPA?

I really appreciated your write up as a primer on git. Thanks for writing it. One issue I have with it, though, is that the part focusing on Pushing and Fast Forward Merges is eith…

I particularly agree with this point -- "students need to be exposed to the tools to construct large-scale reliable programs..." The individual technical component is only half the…

I don't see any "hard barriers" but a lot of soft issues that will take time to overcome. As of now, there isn't even a uniform event handling framework in JS. So, first, we'd need…

There's also a security reason for attributes to be enclosed in quotes when we're talking about dynamic webpages. Avery's permissive parser might parse the page "correctly," includ…

Agreed. Very cool: http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/parpevision.js Even on my relatively beefy comp, though, the miku animation was enough to get my fan going full blast. Papervision otoh…

I think that most people's interest (including mine) in doing YCombinator or TechStars is not really the funding. It seems that you'd be much better off in this case just saving th…

I don't really get these things... why code all night when you could just as easily code all day without entirely throwing off your biorhythms and feeling like crap the next day? I…

Prestige may be part of the equation to the extent that prestige is a proxy for the quality of education and research that you'll find at a given university. That said, I chose my …

I particularly agree with your point about caffeine and stimulants. I've found that I very rarely do my best work when I'm all hyped up. Yes, sometimes you have to stay up to finis…

Though an interesting data point in terms of specific numbers, I also am not very surprised that VCs are losing money at the moment. What I did find somewhat refreshing was the fai…

There are a number of other interesting (though perhaps dubiously supported) similar arguments (including this one) in his book freakonomics.

You are missing a critical caveat about these statistics: "*Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs." In countries like C…

I've lived in Palo Alto most of my life and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. You can walk around the main parts of the city and it has somewhat of a community feeling while als…

You're right -- the teleportation aspect should almost be secondary. I think the reason the article got stuck with this headline is that it attracts eyeballs (hey, it got me intere…

What/Who is DreamIT? Is anyone familiar with these folks?

I couldn't really find much in what he had to say about WHY it is a "scam." The linked article requires registration and is cut off before it starts explaining why "this approach i…

It really doesn't look to me like megaupload worked too hard on their captcha. In the general case, this is apparently a difficult problem because of the character segmentation ste…