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There are still many "uncontacted" tribes in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples). I find the Sentinelese people most fascinating of them all. They violently fight anyone getting near their island. They are probably lucky to be on a place where not many resources can be extracted, so no body bothers them.

Why not use windows 7 instead of 8? What can I get from 8.1 that 7 doesn't have? Other than a UI that I don't like very much.

Sir, you have trolled these poor people very hard. And they fed you surprisingly well.

All this thread is quite amusing and almost a tutorial on trolling. Very bold generalizations somehow insulting almost all the developers on the world. With ideas that are obviously false and are not nearly related to the OP.

And yet you've got an amazing degree of attention and had the dedication and energy to keep the pointless discussion going on for hours.

You are the best troll I have ever seen on HN.

Please stop playing their game. The 1%, or maybe the 0.01%, wants the rest of us to fight stupidly over which country is better. "My laws are better", "your banks are crap" etc

This is a world wide class warfare we are living. Don't play the countries confrontation games. Don't be their pawn.

We the people should be together against the powerful ones and demand our rights everywhere, not just in our country.

We need to globalize justice, not just the economy.

<slightly demagogic and rushed rant/>

I'm shocked by Eben Byers death, related in the article, and all that radioactive quackery.

Homeopathy (to name one) today is a joke compared to what we've done in the past. Radioactive toothpaste!

I hope there's no equivalent nowadays.

Well, it's not just in our industry. Alcohol is basically not treated as a drug by society. But its abuse have consecuences as bad as any other "hard" drug.

"Clad in nothing but underwear, he was suffering from uncontrollable hiccups and burdened by a horribly swollen stomach." While some internal organs were destroyed and he was slowly dying. Terrible.

That said, if not alcohol he would have found something else. The problem was not the drug itself.

I don't think than "perpetual" is going to happen to any trend.

Agree on this Kudos :) I activated it by accident (didn't know how they work). I don't regret it. The article was entertaining. Ok. But. The number of false positives with this kudos system is probably very high. You should click to confirm. Anyway, I don't like a web page where I have to be very careful where I put my mouse over. Feels like a minefield. </off-topic>

I don't think this implies we are losing diversity. Internet makes easy to connect with like minded people and share information. That sounds good. Like minded people around the globe becomes more alike? Maybe. But just in the field they share. And they started with similar interests anyway.