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Recently watched Gattaca. Found it interesting how in that world, DNA profiling for job placement was illegal, but because the technology was so widespread and available, it was ea…

Yes, I like margarine too.

Govt will not take any action because Wall Street floods politician's election campaigns with dollars so they play ball. If they don't play ball, Wall Street funds a challenger to …

The profit motive should drive the use, not the implementation of a trading system that effects the world economy so directly. I've maintained that the standard increment for trade…

I too rolled my eyes until I saw that it was about vim.

Well sure, but you seem to be scoping your statement down to recent events, in America, and only positive change. Before you were addressing any type of change in society as a whol…

I doubt how we treat the young and the elderly will stop changing. Just look at child labor laws and social security, medicade/care in the US for one example of radical change.

I'm not sure you understood my comment.

I don't see anything wrong with these alleged agreements, per se, but it sets a terrible anti competitive precedent that is all manner of bad for employee marketability. It would b…

Well good luck to you. Don't worry about the haters that say you won't make it because there is no trust built up like the trust users have for Paypal. Who trusted Paypal when they…

I doubt he will actually cough up the money. It's not based on any assumptions about his character based on that movie, just my sense of how much of a paper tiger his and facebook'…

The only reason I don't use Chrome is because of the Google info sharing. Chromium is unclear as to weather it actually shares data or not. I believe at one point there was a bug w…

Yeah, the survival aspect is the most appealing to me as well. Hopefully some more survival elements will make it in before the beta.

The PR department exists to do PR. Irregardless of the motivations of the people who contact them, sending a few official comments should be well within their ability. That someone…

no it's not, that's the first thing i checked. I'll remove the story though if no one else seems to be effected.

Creating available, consistent and learn-able interfaces is not that hard. Making them completely ignorance proof may be though. Having to teach something is a reasonable part of a…

The Mona Lisa looked a bit like Patrick Steward in a wig.

Hey a search insider, cool. I want to thank your department for the advance search sort on the left hand side, totally non-distracting and much easier to drill through than clickin…

I'm a Django fan, but in defense of this guy this is a pretty insignificant thing to post to HN.

It sounds like they screwed you too, and your defending them? It sound suspiciously like they just want to keep the money for as long as possible. Collecting interest on your asset…

We are all miserable, as we tend to focus on what's wrong in our lives. The rich simply have a less desperate set issues to deal with. This has a desensitizing effect on how they r…

People often fall into the self deceptive habit that thinking about doing something is doing something. Such truisms merit being in a self help article. Do you really hate platitud…

I'm not sure vertical integration is something to be inspired by. In fact, it tends to create a variety of conflicts of interests, and anti competitive environments. Both effects a…

From what I've read, Brits don't have the insane supermarkets we do here in the states.