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Because marriage isn't just some symbolic institution. Denying marriage to couples radically, unequivocally, directly harms them in legal matters like being able to make medical de…

He likely means Nortel, especially in the sense of it being the Canadian tech darling that fritters away its business into irrelevancy.

Allow me to offer some anecdotal evidence to counter your speculation: in the waiting room at my doctor's office this morning, there were three little old ladies discussing his cov…

It's too late for that argument by that point. Sauron (and Saruman) are aware of hobbits and that one of them has the ring -- hence the Nazgul showing up in the Shire even before F…

I used to use Comic Sans as my font for code editing. It had the nice effects of: 1) Annoying the font bigots in our company. 2) I giggled every single time I opened a file to edit…

I think he was only going to kill programmers who didn't learn statistics.

I'm not sure I'd attribute it to a fast-paced lifestyle. My guess is that most people plunk down and just watch TV (or surf the web these days) after supper. After dinner walks wou…

I wonder if that is in part due to there being so much else to do on the iPad. When you buy a Kindle, I imagine you spend a bunch of time in the book store going, "Hmm...I'll grab …

Although they aren't legally required to. Al does it as a courtesy. He specifically gets permission from the artist now, because when he did Amish Paradise he'd received an okay fr…

I don't think he can be called unsung given the frequency at which his story shows up on sites like hn and reddit...