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2. As best I can recall, the only thing on the web nodes was a source code checkout. I don't think that's particularly sensitive.
3. As ig1 notes, back then we had unencrypted passwords in the database and database copies on our machines, which were our personal laptops, so a spare drive in the apartment was the least of our problems.
(Ran across a backup of paul in my apartment the other day... Memories.)
"10. Paul Graham doesn’t know (yet) that he’s being portrayed on the stage."
More: "Wrapping up the evening, a character based on philanthropist Paul Graham instructs the audience on constructive disagreement in How to Have an Argument. The existential crisis that interrupts him brings about an exploration of the creative process, gratuitous accents and cake for all." (http://portlandactorsconservatory.blogspot.com/2009/10/stay-...)
That said, I don't think the comics are a particularly good expression of this. The male is always being rational-logical and the female intuitive-wholistic, which seems a bit sexist, even if the rational-logical character is always the butt of the joke.
http://www.scribd.com/vacuum?url=http://wiki.freebsd.org/200...
The evidence (look up "demographic transition") shows that the only reliable way to decrease birth rates is to decrease death rates. In practice, people seem to have more kids when they expect some of their kids to die. That's how societies keep from dying out.
I don't say people are just deluded, I say they're often confused.
I never said people are only allowed to get equal things, so I have no idea what you're talking about.
Nobody disputes that things are sometimes complicated. But that just means you need to work a little harder to find out the truth -- not just spout random ideas you have.
I certainly wouldn't recommend donating to GiveWell, though. The MIT Poverty Action Lab seems like a much better use of the money.