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Or you could, uh, buy Berkshire Hathaway...

It's not funding. It's the relative power of unions. In California, a cop costs $200k a year, when pensions and health care are factored in.

I have trouble understanding the purpose of consciousness. Some argue that it improves survival because an animal that has a certain type of mental model of the world will perform …

This has been covered ad nauseum elsewhere in the financial press, but you're assuming Yahoo pays zero corporate taxes on its sale of Alibaba shares. That's not how the world works…

Wouldn't it be even worse for other wearable companies if people could, you know, buy the iWatch in time for the holidays?

The single version of the watch is spot on. As is the implicit point that maybe they could have hit this year's holiday season if they hadn't tried to make so many different versio…

Who drives in New York?

This.

Maybe they'll finally start running Capitol Corridor trains to Reno? That would be lovely in the winter for heading up to Tahoe for skiing...

I liked the one that was a C program that used argv[0] (or argv[1] - cant remember) as the connection string for an SQL database. Then the answer was SQL injection. I mean, sure, y…

You should have moved to Oakland. There's plenty of cheap real estate there, and it's on BART.

He says that the reduction in sensitivity on the digitizer "scared the hell out of [him]." Why do people say stuff like this? You know what scares the hell out of me? Getting maule…

Welcome to the bubble.

Pull Request if anyone wants to see the code. Sorry this is in 2 places. https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048/pull/13

I like this one better: http://voting-2048.herokuapp.com/ Edit: pull request here if anyone wants to see the code: https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048/pull/13

I like this one a bit better because it shows vote totals and has a visible countdown: http://voting-2048.herokuapp.com/

Bubble Alert.