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Krugman used to think like a typical economist, but abandoned this approach and subsequently became a celebrated columnist. Ironically this was years after he wrote an essay compla…

"The main difference is that eventlet can’t influence the Python runtime, but actors are built into Erlang at a language level, so the Erlang VM can do some cool stuff like mapping…

Here are some Hacker News threads related to client side testing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038663 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2142104 http://news.ycombinator.co…

Some days you want to smoke weed, other days you want to take modafanil.

Some hobbies are more dangerous than others. I think it makes sense for us to discourage people from getting started on the more dangerous hobbies. Also, people do blame alcohol.

How's that, exactly?

Possible justification for HN being biased: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074079

Does anyone know what kind of money MegaUpload makes? How profitable are internet businesses in general? Would anyone be willing to share the site they run and the amount it makes?…

"In 2001 Schmitz pulled off a huge stock market bluff which netted him a small fortune. After buying shares worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the almost bankrupt LetsBuyIt.…

Most of the private universities that actually have to market themselves cater to less intelligent folks who will take much longer to catch on to the fact that degrees are overpric…

Since education can't be resold, there isn't going to be the sort of bursting bubble you see in markets for other goods. Let's say what the article predicts comes to pass and the d…

http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/

Your brain makes you good at the things you do. So if the internet really is the best way to get the information you're looking for, it makes sense to practice internet surfing ins…

This seems close enough: >Last year, researchers at Stanford found signs that this shift may already be well under way. They gave a battery of cognitive tests to a group of heavy m…

It's basically true. You only have so many hours in the day.

Even the life he describes is pretty damn good by historical standards.

Doesn't work with Vim as well though.

Holy shit.

"Yours is a beautiful site, I'm impressed!" Thanks. Actually I did everything but the design :-P "1. Going off on many, many tangents before buckling down and focusing on the core …

So at what point did you know the publicity software was going to be a failure? What was the proximate cause of your doom?