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> Step 2: Take risks when you have enough of a safety net. Someone from a rich family has more of a safety net, straight out of the gate, than someone from a poor family.

Just curious, why did you think there was a pivot away from flat design? I'm also interested in learning about some alternative designs though.

*All due :)

I actually really wasn't being facetious. It was my understanding that podcasts were an Internet centric thing, and was curious whether there were offline versions I wasn't aware o…

The episode is explicitly mentioned in the article. Also, just curious, is there any other kind of podcast besides an internet one?

That's not a bad system. Can I ask how long it took you to upload it all to Dropbox?

In case anyone isnt getting the sarcasm in the title, quote from the article: >Since I happened to have a pound of almonds in the refrigerator I decided to count up those little wa…

As someone at the very other end of the 20s spectrum: 1. My own responsibility towards myself and my life weighs a lot more heavily on me at 29 than it did at 22. At 22 I had faith…

An extension I use regularly got zapped (Website Screenshot). There are definitely alternatives out there, but it's a little annoying that there was no indication as to WHY it was …

Poorly done parallax scrolling. You'd think they would have learned by now.

This is an absurdly broad comment. The US has been a super power for over half a century. You've distilled decades of complex foreign policy involving every nation on earth down to…

> New York itself can't bear the thought of having nature among it, so they put cars into central park. This seems like an extremely cynical, not to mention pretty dubious explanat…

Wait, I wasn't taught this, and my family takes pride in backing into our driveway (which is narrow and difficult to back out of). Why is backing up bad for your car?

But within a certain range, I really only care what someone in a similar position to me is making.

Taxi is much easier. If you've got the dough, you're going to take a taxi. It's a flat $45 rate out to JFK as well.

How is tech "weak"?

I was just thinking about this when I read the recent wired article. I'm glad this has been updated to work again.

Why is that bullshit?

I have graph search. Tried this, got four results, all male. So yes, this seems to be true.

Well, I bookmarked it, so I'm good right?

Offtopic, but I prefer it that way. I hear enough people yammering away all day, I don't need it on my commute as well (I'd be fine with it if they just instituted data, but since …

They already are used domestically. One was used in North Dakota to track and arrest armed subjects ( http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/10/nation/la-na-drone-a... ). Another was…

> Whose career can then be presented as 'eccentric' and thus the threat immunised. This is the part I don't understand. Who is immunizing? His critics? Or his work is immunized by …

Isn't that what App.net is supposed to be? Or are there problems with it I can't identify (being too poor to deem $5 a month on a social network a valid expense).