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On a slightly related linguistic note, I find the following sentence annoying: "Put yourself in the shoes of that Early Adopter. Does she want to see useless garbage phrases or doe…

Sure, but on the whole they make a profit, so the money they take out of the country will be more than what they bring in the form of products, rents, wages, etc. or otherwise they…

Of course state protectionism might help local furniture manufacturers to catch up and grow their own business and that might actually benefit the Russian economy even more. Perhap…

The article makes the implicit claim that IKEA does a favor to Russians by selling them stuff and not Russians do by buying the stuff. I'm not saying the opposite just that this is…

Another aspect often overlooked is how great help grandparents can be. Even though nowadays that is often seen as a big no-no, in some cultures, and if they are willing to help, th…

Watched until 1:40. That chart could be taught in school as "how to lie with data": reduction from 20 to 10 made to look more dramatic by changing the scale.

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/ this is quite similar.

http://browsershots.org/ can be pretty useful as well.

Lush is a LISP-style environment for scientific computing: http://lush.sourceforge.net/

It is another name for snake-oil cryptography: http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html#snakeoil

11th grade for me seemed quite intellectual. In those 1300 hours of busy work I learned about infinite series, analytical geometry, differential calculus, basic group theory, basic…

In many countries it is already common practice that poor people buy glasses on the market without any prescription. They try on several different lenses and buy the one that seems…

Is anyone else here who thinks that the first rejection of the bailout plan and the subsequent agreement was done on purpose to generate the stock market fall, where insiders could…

Yeah, let's factor in per capita: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_per_capita

I wish it was only how it looks, but it's also how it sounds.

What, no 0% option for tips? If it's mandatory then it's not really a tip anymore is it? Seriously, I thought taxi is about getting from one place to another, what's the point of t…

It's just part of their business model, that's how they stand out from the crowd. Otherwise how do you think yet another to-do list would be a viable business app. Same thing holds…

My estimates weren't ex-recto as you said. I took a brief look at Xobni, and thought that even I could have done it in a few months. Then a few engineers from MS could do it even m…

Well, you implied one was more difficult than the other. Then the other one has to be easier, otherwise it doesn't make much sense.

Nothing wrong at all. I think he used it to finance wikipedia/nupedia in the early stages though. I just tried to give examples of things that started not necessarily with the thou…

I think even YouTube/FaceBook/Flickr started along those lines. Hell, even Jimmy Wales was running a porn website ring before focusing on Wikipedia full time.

In the same time a feature idea for news.yc & reddit: the number of votes on a comment should become visible only after someone voted already, similarly to online polls. This would…