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standardization is one reason: http://xkcd.com/768/

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/The_Last_Resort/140466

Mandelbrot (roughly): do not look at what you see, but at the process that created it . Great ideas have infinite applications and all ideas are interconnected. The trouble is know…

Or its sibling: a genie grants both a mathematician and an engineer their greatest desire to be located at the end of the room given that each step they take towards it is half the…

Ideally, yes. I don't have any projects meriting this function but I could foresee it in the future; in the meantime I wanted to know what HN thought. I'm glad to see some interest…

It's just a submission tag that would provide an opportunity for not only the submitter but various other HN users to combine forces by merging projects together that never got tra…

Not to be overly melodramatic, but I think this is my last comment here on HN for better or worse, simply because this is exactly the microcosmic ideal I've hoped for HN from my be…

I'm not sure how well these are worded but assume current entrepreneurship as an underlying condition when not specified explicitly.

My partner was a DECA member in high school but I wasn't. This fact made me wonder what percentage of DECA members go on to be entrepreneurs, successful or not, and of those who fe…

Thanks, all comments were helpful.

Could anyone provide a current list of HN spin-offs and YC funded startups? Or just add yourself if applicable, I would really appreciate it, thank you.

If you ever want any help developing this or need someone to bounce a feature idea off of let me know.

From what I can tell there are two camps that are converging: 1) capitalists that want to monetize off the 3rd Economy and 2) resource-based social engineers using a YC-like networ…

Take a look at http://zemerge.com/

I have a little hobby swap site that I could quickly convert into an unofficial HN book/thing swap. I would be glad to release the source if necessary so others could improve upon …

Theoretically speaking, in a future where the world runs itself and all notions of "scarcity" are eliminated by energy, technological, and agricultural abundance, what need would t…

This only confirms my conviction that solipsism syndrome should be studied more closely in relation to the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism_syndrome Edit (corollary…

Technocrats understand that technology is the only thing that reduces cultural lag, more or less . On the other hand , artificial scarcity keeps it going strong. These two processe…

Just smoke some cannabis if you want time to stop (interferes with your ability to filter perceptual information in a linear fashion-- nevertheless one's own personal freedom to ch…

A couple of nugs might be typical. 1 oz is a lot of cannabis; it might take a year for a casual user to expend it. So no, your garden variety cannabis is not expensive and is compa…

I downloaded polyglot earlier today and found it mostly amusing in the context of Facebook (e.g. seeing my friends speaking in broken english.) Later, I came back and forgot about …