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"It’s easy to denounce the tyranny of the online masses when you live in a country that has strong rule of law and institutions that address public corruption, but in China the hum…

"The NYC Startup Job Fair will bring students, young alumni and startups together to help place bright motivated individuals in exciting New York based companies." Emphasis on "you…

His talk about micropayments makes me wonder why it hasn't come further than it has in all the years since it was first talked about. He mentions Google Checkout as a possible prov…

I disagree that this is a bad idea. I think it's a good idea that hasn't been done well and it remains to be seen whether quora is up to the challenge. (btw, if anyone has an invit…

pg recently said that one of the biggest changes in his thinking since starting yc is that he no longer believes that coming from a good school is an indicator of success in a star…

What's Autotune? Auto-Tune was also used to produce the prominent altered vocal effect on Cher's "Believe," recorded in 1998. When first interviewed about this, the sound engineers…

In case anyone questions why the HN title is different from the NYT title, I adapted it from the subhead which reads as follows: "Grudgingly, many climate scientists are beginning …

Is it possible to call someone on this in conversation without being rude? e.g. "What do you mean 'it turns out'?"

William Safire's weekly "On Language" piece in the Sunday New York Times did this type of thing for decades and was required reading in my English classes. Sadly he passed on recen…

What is Tim Bray known for? (please excuse my ignorance)

Does anyone have any advice on whether he should delete the blog post to avoid any additional potential liability? I'm thinking about how Conan couldn't talk about his contractual …

His Mercurial tutorial/promotion of Kiln was a great example of how to present dense technical material in a colorful, expressive way. But between the constant drive to squeeze eve…

Don't care much about the data itself but the use of Google Docs as a data source in combination with whatever flash library they're using for the visualization is an interesting a…

What about the artist/poet Jenny Holzer who tweets her latest compositions before subsequently publishing them elsewhere: http://twitter.com/Jennyholzer These short phrases have be…

West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever "live" coverage there actually is in prime time, ev…

"3 hosting companies out of 9 have my referral id." But the point is, you didn't disclose the role of commercial sponsorship in your "recommendations" until you were called on it. …

I wonder how many of these recommendations are sponsorship-based. Linode is curiously missing in favor of Slicehost. Considering the recent discussion here regarding changes to Sli…