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I have swapped hardware many many times, multiple re-installs of Windows 7 and _never_ had an issue with licensing on a single key. I am very confused and skeptical of your claims.…

That article reads like it was written by a fifth grader describing reasons why dodgeball is better than soccer.

Rewards are transparent. Spend some money and before you know it, you get a $100 check or gas cards or amazon credit etc. What a headache!!! I hate it when people give me money for…

In this circumstance, I hate to defend those that did what they did. The comment above about authoritarian followers is a good explanation as to why the officers/medical staff woul…

With a title "To an alarming degree..." it immediately feels like a persuasive paper. Who thinks it's alarming? From the sound of it, everyone should (or does) think this is alarmi…

I'm also curious about how they prove this. The article assumes the times were in sync.

And my point is that BIG policy makes it so that negative actions (not working _hard_, not investing, no personal development beyond what is required) are not a net loss to the fam…

I do understand your point. And you gave perfect examples of situations where BIG would be beneficial. My problem with the idea is that proponents ignore the negatives or severely …

I read an adjective describing a noun, not a combined two word, self-defined phrase? Perverse: inexplicably irrational: contrary to what is regarded as normal or reasonable, often …

First of all, nobody's opinions are substantiated. I believe that human nature has not and will not change. By human nature, I'm talking about what drives us to do the things we do…

Agree with first paragraph a hundred percent. How can we teach those in poverty that the way they live their lives is counter productive? The politics have to get out of the damn w…

It does not remove "perverse" incentives. Human nature dictates our desires. If we could have everything we ever wanted then there would be no "perverse" incentives. I could have m…

Is this really necessary? How about 456 - unavailable because someone spilled coffee on our backend server? Or 467 - unavailable because garden gnomes invaded our offices?

IP is irrelevant, even though it's fun to draw conclusions, you simply cannot tie a person/organization to an IP.

"Except for one little problem: the economics of cord-cutting simply don’t make sense, for neither networks nor viewers." Actually, it makes perfect sense for the viewers - the net…

Or that there isn't a norm at all!

If space is infinite, it is entirely possible that we are ridiculously close to the norm.

They need to be able to control the currency, thus bitcoin will never become more than it is now. I'd bet on the powers that be squashing it a million times.

Yeah, I could think of a handful of ways to do this easily without as much resources as stated...

http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ FreeBSD 9.1 Amazon ami has been released. I've been running on FreeBSD on EC2 for a while without issue.

I've seen on numerous occasions, an anti-conservative post miraculously parked on the front page above other posts that have twice the upvotes, twice the comments and submitted mor…