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Isis approves of this pro islamic link. Hacker news no longer a place for programmers, its a place for politics. Religion of peace is the best, we should allow sharia law controlle…

In some sleepy town centers like near Portland maine they put aggressive cobblestones on a main road and the gigantic flower pots, park benches and sidewalks invade the street to a…

Its a mistake airing your side of the story in legal proceedings before trial. At this point the professor is guilty until proven innocent by people who don't know the difference b…

A program that reads between the lines has to have a notion that the entity writing the words can have a bias to misrepresent behavior in support of an ulterior motive. Humans devo…

Because tablets don't have an effective medium for user input. Had there been some sort of space age motor cortex uplink for effortless, easy to learn, consistent and efficient com…

Windows 8 came across as a kind of entertainment toy device that focused on content consumption and advertisement delivery embedded right in the start menus. Removing the silly gam…

So let me get this straight, your mom died from alcohol and I still here you defending it? I guess I tripped your cognitive dissonance algorithms, your genetic line can't simultane…

The fact that its addictive and damages people. That should be the illegal thing: using a factory to make things that people get addicted to and it harms them. People 1000 years fr…

Cross between ad hominum and straw man. He compared my argument to cars growing on trees the said ha! Look how silly you are. Cars don't grow on trees! Hmmm you don't say. Can we g…

Because your sorry butt marches into our emergency room after you screw yourself up. Taking away extra nice things that could have been. And since we can't drop you off on a desert…

If I was there when they decided to poison the factory alcohol. I would have advised against it. You'll never hear the end of it. All the victims will blame you for the damage take…

An interesting analogy. However the victim in this case simply failed to take a precaution vs willfully went out the way to seek damage. Punishing people with deadly force for not …

My compassion is earned by the victim at hand, not given away by individuals who like to appropriate other men's resources such as yourself.

Health benefit? I'll be sure to tell the kids who's mothers drank during pregnancy that their obvious and life crippling birth defects that nugget of truthiness. Tell me again how …

It should be legalized and then if you take it, it goes on your record, so next time you try to get a job the hiring company can decide based upon the reputation of potheads, wheth…

You know an argument is good when the opposing party resorts to ad hominem. First you must explain where I have made a mistake, you pea brain.

I don't disapprove of drinking poison. Its the people drinking poison who are disapproving of the decision to make poison poisonous. The phenomenon to explain is why the blame is q…

Lets suppose some company hired scientists at great expense to make 10w30 motor oil incredibly addictive. Maybe they put some new chemical nobody heard of into it. Anyway, people a…

What Snowden did, or more specifically what the faceless, unaccountable and un-nameable NSA directors did was what George Orwell was trying to capture in his famous novel. The noti…

Also watch out for a bait and switch on Airbnb. I'm actually sitting in a nice apt now from airbnb. So I am happy with it. But there is another host who is trying to get me for an …

"Can you, at the same time, read this sentence and think about yourself reading it?" The moments before I fall asleep is when I sometimes can get a glimpse of how the machinery of …

One way to help the government establish tight controls over what kinds of programs you can run on any of your computers is to implement a single point of control and a single poin…

The programmer recruiting industry is counter productive, adding less than no value to the people who need coders as well as the the programmers who want to work. Less than no valu…