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Humans have repurposed viral mechanisms for gene therapy, so this is actually untrue. In addition, "germ theory" and early science related to antibiotics and widespread misinformat…

Freemium is not a change in the age old formulas. Giving it away for free is a usually recurring/ongoing loss incurred to increase addressable market. In addition, people that get …

Good argument. I thought PG had some good points, but I also think that the problem is not only the RIAA and MPAA (among others), but it is our government, which is incapable of ha…

No.

Great idea, but note that you shouldn't actually use it, and if you do- not much. Putting dyed paper on your hind parts like that is not good for you over the long-term. For women,…

Ugh, I wish I didn't know about him but Oprah had a lot of the world brainwashed at one point that he was the man. He had some interesting ideas, but he is just another new age eva…

Not trying to be mean, but shouldn't ColdFusion have gone away by now? It seems it has been decomposing for years now: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=coldfusion Oddly the number o…

If you read the whole post you'll see that there is a lot of respect given to emacs, which I use vs. vim. I agree though- vim is like a religion lately, not just on HN, but everywh…

I like Google personally, but this is a good post. Really, really long though and a little too emotional for someone trying to convince others vs. just ranting. I think that Google…

I for one appreciate that you provided the advice. Anything that helps others get along without being divisive is a very good thing, so please don't absorb any of the criticism fro…

Really awesome. Thanks!

This post is a great response to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3723323 I think personally that learning more than one language is very helpful, but like anything else, …

I personally don't mind some subset of our population being extremely rich. They've made sacrifices that I don't care to make or have had luck or skill that I do not have. The abil…