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It would have to be more densely populated than the center of Hong Kong.

This town/prison/concentration camp/detention center (or two valleys) would be lucky to have 10,000 people.

We better not let the facts get in the way of chance to bash North Korea.

If you watched the video they said it was all in 2 valleys.

200,000 in those two valleys? Impossible.

Skype.

:)

No way that camp could be holding 200,000 people.

Anyone who has studied any geography could see that would be near impossible.

You may notice that Israel has stolen more intellectual property worldwide than China.

But bashing China is fashionable.

A chair is a chair. Some of the best chairs I have used are the standard plastic resin chairs. Or fail that a crappy wooden dining room chair. The best way is to mix it up so your body doesn't get too used to one position.

One of my favorite chairs is a high wooden stool while working at a bench.

I'm sure if they did a study the best chair for most people it would be the one that had the biggest price sticker on it.

Google voice forwarded to a sipgate account works wonderfully well for me.

Skype is getting more expensive everyday. And now with added connection fee badness.

I've seen plenty of xenophobia coming from the US media. How you've managed to never see any is a miracle.

The problem is the constant refreshing of stories on the front page. I need to visit a few times a day to have some idea as to what is going on.

If the refresh rate was slower, or the ability for a story to get to the front page would take longer then I would visit less.

At a guess most of the dub/mean comments get made by people who visit many, many times a day and comment out of boredom.

Some method to slow down the entire system would slow down all the posters and would result in longer posts rather than a bunch of witty one liners. Why would anyone go to the trouble of writing an in depth response to anything when it will be gone in three hours.

Increase the quality of the articles and you will increase the quality of the comments.

At least HN doesn't have youtube quality comments yet. :)

I got fooled for most of the article, his comments on deep packet inspection give it away.

"But there are other options as well. Content holders could advertise to these people. If you are downloading a certain band's music, that band could contact you to say, “Hey, we're going to be in your town next month, what if you buy these tickets?”"

This is hilarious.

2 days late.

Dealing with Craigslist in NY I found it to be full of scammers and spammers.

Buying from people listing on craigslist is very much a buyer beware experience. Plenty of bait and switch. And my personal favorite "It's currently in pieces, you can pay me and take the pieces away. All the pieces are there but you have to pay cash first."

Craigslist has a lot of room for improvement and it would great to see useful changes made.

Unfortunately the startup visa is dead and will stay dead for some time. The only way something like this will get through is by piggybacking it onto some other bill.

It is the best method for the drug companies quarterly results.

Sorry to be cynical but nothing is going to happen while Hillary Clinton is secretary of state.

Cell phones are treated the same way as landlines in the US (in terms of charging).

A dickbar is a site that does not load.

US airports aren't really fenced off by immigration. In fact the international and domestic components are mixed. Escape from an airport is easy in the US.

Once you leave an international flight you are herded straight to immigration for the fingerprinting.

The high correlation is caused by default installs that are used in internet cafes. And, in China, most probably non-legit.

First impressions count for a lot. A lot of people may have seen the name of Jason Calacanis prior to his falling out with Michael Arrington but the name did not stick.

When there is malicious gossip people pay attention to the name. First impressions count.

Disclaimer: I couldn't care less about Arrington or Calacanis.

Nice. Very useful.

Suggestion, try changing your URLs. instead of

http://www.slowcop.com/reports/4d6468ff34b95f3cbb000554

try http://www.slowcop.com/reports/www.slowcop.com

by doing this you will get a lot of link traffic.

Not only is 1Gps $26 a month, it gets connected the same or next day.

The entire US visa system is flawed.

The H1B visa allows an entire family to be kicked out of the country with very little notice simply because an employer wants it done.

To extend a visitor visa the person needs to leave the country (further than Canada and Mexico) and return. Great for airlines.

Many companies have employees sitting in Canada who they bring down for meetings every now and then. They just have to stay away longer than 30 days at a time.

Many technology companies have complained, Bill Gates and Google included.

Hillary Clinton (immigration head) is not going to allow anything to improve under her watch. The only real hope is to see what happens with the next election. Hopefully Hillary will be shown the door.

I have seen recruiters;

Phone all the sequential numbers in the office to try and find anyone with a similar skill set.

Contact all my referees and supervisors trying to hunt them.

Ask me if I know/knew "John" who worked with me on a previous project.

Send me on an interview just to test out a potential client, so they can get my feedback.

And they always ask "Where have you interviewed recently?".

Politely discussing issues with people can be very productive.

Arguing on the internet is pointless.

Sounds like Hetty Green. She made millions working from a bank counter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetty_Green#Miser

Amazing how we go from; Stock market bubble to Netscape to Facebook to Stock market bubble.

Jeff Atwood should write for CNN or USA today.

I would like to watch the HD version?

What is this RealPlayer thing? sounds like a virus.

Money may be bad for a few of them at this stage but it will probably provide a leg up for just as many if not more.