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Your comment is useless. Is this not feature comparable with others in its class? What don't you like about it? Is something not worthwhile if it's not first? Aaaaand you've convin…

I also don't care if they show me pictures of wallets I like over wallets I don't like. I do care when any third party knows where I've been, what I am interested in, and otherwise…

Ya, really. Of all the sites I visit and get valuable content from, most of them I pay for. The only outstanding ones I can think of are google search, gmail, and HN. Facebook? NYT…

Yes, it makes sense if you think about that "tax" as the payment for the lottery ticket of a functioning body and brain. Every person here won that lottery ticket, when we could ha…

Correct, but that's just because of the inherently unpredictable nature of future telling. What are the alternatives? One could simply not engage in projections, which is difficult…

I'd just like to say that Disneyland has always felt like BNW to me. In that sense, it seems more realistic, because I've experienced something like it in today's society.

I suppose it depends on how you define "lucked in to". Even building my own company, bootstrapping over these 5 years, I feel like I lucked into where I am. Not because I'm undeser…

IMO, religion is something organized and part of a community. "Spirituality" is when it's something personal (and, as I get older, I am coming to believe is an important part of my…

Generally it means that you do not identify with a particular religious sect. It may also mean that you do not believe in the organized supernatural ideas that most religions do.

I don't see it as a goalpost for poverty, more of a milestone -- it's the first symptom of poverty that IMO humanity wants to relieve

Not familiar with Modern Perl, and I guess you could call 2007 not modern... but check out http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/han...

Also, what if someone's wealth changes between the ticket and the penalty? If they are rich when given the ticket, but lose it all, is it still fair to charge them the higher rate?…

Should we also do prison sentences based on life expectancy? Suppose the penalty for murder is 50% of your remaining life. Should we put a 20 year old away until he's 50 (assuming …

The argument that I've commonly heard is twofold. One, Manning was in the Army, so lots of his actions fall under military jurisdiction, where the primary concern is not the rights…

In my baseless opinion, the "shame on you" radar signs are probably pretty effective. And definitely preferable to robot overlords handing out tickets. And doubly less offensive th…

Just my experience, but I bought a year's VPS from these guys during one of their previous sales. I quickly abandoned hope of using their servers -- over subscribed more than I exp…

Poker has very little to do with reading other people's tells. If a player relies on reading another in order to play his game, the first player is probably not going to do too wel…

I recommend reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem". Arendt discusses this very issue WRT Nazis in WW2 -- in most cases, the systems are structured in such a way that there…

This thread has gotten way out of hand with the thought experiments that reveal more about the author than the subject... but I can't resist! If it took 100 people to make/sell/dis…

This thread has gotten way out of hand with the thought experiments that reveal more about the author than the subject... but I can't resist! If it took 100 people to make/sell/dis…

Do you have any evidence that supports the possibility of LED beings more labour or capital intensive, or is this a hypothetical, "well maybe it could be worse" in an effort to con…

Let me first say that I am sympathetic to your situation. My startup was financially ruined by the Google penalties. However, I'm not sure that anchoring yourself to "they used to …

Not every startup has to produce a "minimum viable" product. Treatments also do not have to start with human trials.

I apologize if my tone led you to believe that -- it was not my intention. My critique has nothing to do with the topic (health care), and everything to do with how the author pres…