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http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse... It's not necessarily a waste, but it's not unquestionably a good thing, either. There should be something other than…

Other blogging services don't have Posterous' remarkable ease of use. The prior lack of themes has been a turnoff for potential users--now that they're here, it's a no-brainer for …

It's a lot more efficient for the journalist to maintain integrity in the authoring of information than it is to have every reader scrutinize that information for a lack of it.

It does carry a higher risk of transmitting an STD from one person to another, yes. So I'm wrong to say that it has "nothing" to do with it. But in terms of epidemiology, the highe…

Having lots of sexual partners creates epidemics of, wait for it...sexually transmitted disease. The manner in which people have sex, unless we're talking dry humping and such, has…

The problem is that you're conflating incompetence with a lack of capacity for competence. In other words, the mere fact of not knowing something implies that one can never know it…

> She seemed kind of flaky but I assumed it was because she was a lot smarter than I was. I pressed on, and an hour later I discovered that she didn't know what a typical size for …

I haven't bothered checking Politico since the 2008 U.S. election. They were horrifyingly fixated on covering the horse race, with a big spot on the front page dedicated to who "wo…

Voted you back up. Fwiw, I was trying to respond to the general sentiment that this was a free speech issue, and the quote made for a good place to do so. Thanks for clarifying you…

To my knowledge, the Thatcher quote has nothing to do with their health care system, and it would appear she was an advocate of the NHS, not an opponent. From http://www.margaretth…

I'm sorry, but the idea that the boycott is somehow threatening freedom of speech is utterly absurd. > A boycott is a ban and bans on other people’s opinions are stupid and childis…

That has far less to do with TC being principled than it does TC being on good terms with YC.

Please don't include a personal rating in your submission's title.

Pressing a button is an action that a gestural UI can communicate visually, but there are a number of other actions that have no visual cue. Direct manipulation gestures such as ta…

They both make operating systems, browsers, and web apps.

Look up "climate" and "weather" before you make silly arguments about what can be claimed about them.

> BTW, they don't call it Global Warming anymore. It's now called Climate Change. You see, since the climate is a dynamical system that is continuously changing, the name "Climate …

Not a whole lot of discussion here, is there? There are Apple fans here, yes. There is much to discuss about Apple and its products that's relevant to Hacker News. But getting noti…

The firmware update only applies to the latest model MacBook Pros, not all of them. And this information is easily obtained on the many Apple-centric websites out there. Presumably…

A firmware update? Seriously? Can we not dilute HN with stuff like this and the inane gamer chatter at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668692 ?