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This reaffirms my wanting to buy a house boat and live on it.

Seven months ago, analysts were predicting 2011 would be the Year of America. That would be news to me. Which analysts were predicting that?

Well I suspect this bubble (if it is indeed a bubble) is somehow related to the recent stimulus efforts, so I suppose it depends what the Fed does after ending QE2 at the end of th…

I imagine ex-bureaucrats are useful to hire because of all the connections they made while in office. If there are term limits and the churn rate is high, that doesn't leave much t…

Often times customers use your product in a way you didn't intend. A $300 house may have value, just maybe not the way the builders envision it.

For the sake of thinking it through, how exactly would a government get rid of bitcoin? I imagine they'd make it illegal to accept bitcoins as payment, which would remove all legit…

I thought the HN crowd would have an appreciation for the number 1337.

BTW I upvoted you to make your karma 1337 :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Looks like the freedombox isn't available yet? I like the mission though!

Or better, the good ol' "copy of a copy" analogy. Or you might compare it to re-compressing a jpeg over and over.

In response, AT&T issued a statement stating that the allegations were “without merit.” I think it would come off a lot better if they just said "We're looking into the issue and w…

I don't think anyone believes there is actually a bubble in diplomas. Obviously there aren't any DBS's (diploma backed securities), or diploma flipping schemes. However you might b…

I think part of the problem is that people have been sold on the idea that Macs are safe and "there aren't any viruses for the Mac." There is this ill conceived notion that naive u…

Yesterday I spent several hours going through discussions.apple.com and collecting requests for help from Mac users who have been affected by this issue. I found more than 200 sepa…

Did you the article? Serious malware on the mac.

Ugh it's finally happened.

Sometimes I know there is something wrong with my app because someone writes a bad review, but I can't do anything about it because I can't contact them to figure out how they got …

The Facebook integration is a big win-win for Bing and Facebook.

I have an old friend I follow on twitter who tweets way to much garbage and I want to unfollow her, but I know for a fact she uses an unfollow tracker, and I KNOW it'll spite her. …

They weren't taught with the correct method.

Bookmarked! I love maps and globes, and I love demographic data.

No. Think about it. For example, even if you could make an iOS app on an iPad you wouldn't want to. There are legitimate reasons for wanting a keyboard and trackpad. iOS is the fut…

OSX and iOS are merging. Think touch screen macbook air.

The only power cord you might need is for your electric screwdriver to open op the laptop, remove the hard drive, and plug it in to another computer.

Where is the Safari version adoption chart?