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No, what I'm saying is that punching people isn't a worthwhile endeavour.

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Most facebook controls are buried three levels of counterintuitive links down in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the d…

Farmville could be blocked relatively easily. These can't be blocked at all.

Actually, I just discovered that ads keep appearing even if you defriend the person ! I just defriended someone who works for a social game company because they were pushing waaaay…

Quite possibly. Certainly in the old days one could express an opinion that "Hey, maybe there's certain advantages to copyright law" without getting modded down to numbers so low t…

>The majority of the HNers believe that there should be no intellectual property at all. Most also make their living off producing intellectual property, which is... interesting at…

Yes as and no. Fundamentally weight gain/loss really is a matter of calories in vs calories out; if you're burning more calories than you're consuming then you're gonna be losing w…

>In my belief this is patently disrespectful, in the same way that it was disrespectful for people to call Muhammed Ali "Cassius" after he changed his name Possibly, but since I do…

Dunno, a message? A notification? "Card" isn't intuitive because this isn't the way people use cards in real life. The only analogy for using cards as a notification I can think of…

You do realize that if people like Kim Dotcom ... is that really his name? Fuck him, apparently his name is Kim Schmitz and I don't care what stupid name he changed his name to. Wa…

That's not how it works. Instead, Crelm toothpaste will note that you've liked them and forevermore your friends will get stories posted directly by Crelm toothpaste with the headi…

From talking to other people about it (and also from the only one other comment in this thread that goes "right on, I thought I was going crazy") I'm thinking it might be a limited…

They don't post things I don't like -- they merely like things I don't like and the things they like post things on their behalf and without their knowledge. Even if you put a pers…

Actually I've discovered that the ads keep appearing even if you do hide all their posts from your feed.

I'm considering leaving facebook for the first time, because of the Sponsored Stories thing, which is showing up with disturbing regularity, and frequently winds up as ads for thin…

It took me a long time to figure out that you meant "principle" rather than "principal". For school teachers, perhaps the reason might be principal.

I think the US regulations about car seats might be entirely different, but I haven't looked into the details.

Sounds difficult -- the oil wells of Saudi Arabia can only produce so much oil per day

Yep, he sure has some wacky ideas about history. Still, gotta give him credit for the fact that his wacky ideas are at least unusual -- he seems to have developed his stupid belief…

Statistically very few acorns will wind up finding the correct conditions to grow into a full oak tree, so until further notice I just see a nut.

> "This kind of violent activity tends to become more prevalent and audacious when grown men and women can no longer provide food and shelter for their families." I doubt there's m…

Pretty much it. This is also a good illustration of the difference between the private and the public sector. In the private sector your boss would rather keep all his employees, b…

Or else men just thought the "second best looking" was better looking than the "best looking" one. Or else men don't like it when the only photo is a black and white close-up from …

Well that's even worse, as the whole cost is pinned not just on landlords but on a single generation of landlords. Bam, I just took away hundreds of thousands of dollars of your mo…

That's a shame, because this writer is far better than most science journalists. If you're out there, anonymous writer, nice work!