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Google has two classes of stock.

Depends what you mean by memes. The things on this site aren't really memes in the original sense of the word. The reason these things are boring is probably that as humor they fal…

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579

Even in China, my dad didn't eat rice until he was in his teens. What did he eat?

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/09/24/buffett_i...

There's nothing illegal about age discrimination when choosing a cofounder, just as there isn't when choosing a friend.

"McKinsey, a consultancy, will share management expertise." God help them.

That's a metaphor.

50m is not the valuation; it's the amount of stock they're selling.

Your comment would be more effective without the parts on either end.

Seems like the least we can do is use it. I propose we use this by default for links to bing.

Not even that. His salary is rounding error compared to his net worth.

"The supply of papers that apply gender theory to literary criticism remains ample."

Reminds one of the invisible clams in Scientology.

The list _delirium and I are referring to is this one of 4 items: All three appear to be single white 20something males I am in fact pretty nearly as bothered by the claim that it'…

In a long enough list, by definition it's reasonable. The problem is, this was a short list.

And their race is supposed to predict this? I've heard white people can actually be quite different from one another.

Why is it bad that they're white?

You may well be right. The artists involved are exactly the ones that would be chosen in that scenario. Which is unfortunate.

It's just a figure of speech. There are plenty of other figures of speech that would be even more "offensive" if we applied this unreasonably strict standard to them.

What matters is not the intention of the law but how it's written. This page says what's prohibited is "actual refusal to do business with or in Israel." Do you have some other sou…

Raking in pledges , not donations. I wonder what the conversion rate is.