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North Carolina teachers have no union.

GM was at least on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure that can be attributed more to massively underestimating how much healthcare would cost in 2008 duri…

Being a non-profit does not make you decentralized.

I'm skeptical of the legitimacy of any business that advertises itself mostly through spam.

Wikipedia is exactly as centralized as StackOverflow, in that it's all in a single site but licensed under Creative Commons.

An Erlang crash is of an Erlang process, which is a tiny green-thread with shared-nothing. That's very different from a C program segfaulting.

The main thing is that you'd need a new set of abstractions for security, and then you'd need to implement HTML5 on it anyways to do all the things we can do on a computer now.

No original research is because otherwise Wikipedia would be infested with physics cranks.

The censorship doesn't really work when it's in the URL.

Well, the actual content and information is only one side of the coin. The other side is taking bad content off.

Link me to Something Awful actually supporting these laws.

No, but the image+caption is different from just the image.

Currency markets exist, but most currency trading is a lot more short-term. Holding USD is rarely an investment. You put money in your checking account(as opposed to a savings acco…

Didn't the Oakland A's stop being successful precisely because every other team picked up their methods?

There are index funds that swap out exactly the same way the Dow does.

Ew. Is there a version of that graph that's on a logarithmic scale?

When is the last time that you purchased a product or service using gold?

Hint: the value of USD isn't as an investment. In fact, if the value of USD goes up, that makes it less useful, because the point of having money is to spend it. For example, one o…

Aren't Bill Gates and Warren Buffett currently trying to spend as much of their money as possible on charity work, as well as lobbying to get the amount of taxes they have to pay i…

"If you had bought and held the stocks that make up the Dow over 60 or 70 years, you'd have gotten demolished because the Dow constantly shuffles its index." No, but if you put you…

Yeah, the Prime Directive seems to be more "we don't want to completely fuck up a less developed culture by accident" than anything else.

I think he's claiming that plays are more popular in Europe.

And this doesn't apply to Holocaust deniers because...

The followup "Colour, social beings, and undecidability" http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/24 is also pretty good.

Actually, my first thought was "This reminds me of Enso", Enso being the predecessor to Ubiquity(by the same people before they were hired by Mozilla), but integrated into the desk…