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Maybe someone can figure out why HackerNews is such a hotbed of climate change denial? On the surface of it, there is no obvious connection between that and the usual subjects disc…

Oh this is very interesting. It is relevant for a P2P network architecture that I am working on. Thanks a trillion times for posting this -- I don't get enough time to keep up-to-d…

Backus' speech on the "intellectual bottleneck" is about similar things.

For the 2 or 3 remaining uninitiated readers here: The Robert Morris this is about is one of the 3 partners in Y Combinator.

glad to see a climate change post that is not denial, which seems to be the hallmark of nickb/pg and other horatio algers hellbent on selling you a rosy future. I don't know whethe…

Ah, can you say "shotgun wedding"? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205918

Thanks for the article, we haven't had any climate change denial for almost two weeks now.

Yeah some guy I know is even trying to make other people do like he did so he can prove some point.

From his linked-in profile: "... recently aquiring permanent residence from the German Bureau ..." Things must be going really bad in America.

Complaints like this turn up ever so often, but I guess Paul is still bitter about losing the popularity contest back in high school ( http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html ) and now wa…

A wholesale indictment of American capitalism, if I've ever seen one.

Both Bussard and his most likely competitor, Eric Lerner, have done presentations on Google Tech Talks, you can find them on Google video. Bussard died the other day unfortunately.…

Hm, sounds like a whole lot stupid guys are throwing a popularity contest. Remind me not to apply for a job with carr's team.

> ... Takes an Open Mind ... or massive inflation.

No. of documents on climate change: 0

for a nice take on Lumpenprogrammmers read "Cube Farm" by Bill Blunden

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/24/75-threatening-to...

Funny, the two most common labels I am hearing these days are not on the list: 'liberal' and 'conservative'. In political discussions a lot of ideas are suppressed - or at least ve…