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The problem isn't any individual 3rd grader, the problem is the nearly society-wide acceptance of innumeracy, sometimes even approval of innumeracy. I think this will be one of the factors limiting (economic) growth in the future.

Wouldn't that be small boots and rocket powered bootstraps?

Or cookies. 4 kB is a lot of friends. Invalidate them every time someone adds a friend.

Both of these however make cache invalidation (in case of multiple browsers/computers) hard—nearly impossible even.

"For every season, Homer loses 5 IQ points. Right now he's as intelligent as a speaking dog." (Paraphrased, saw this on TVTropes. I'm not sure whether I agree.)

I would be very surprised if the average pedophile even had one victim. I think you do not know or do not want to know the meaning of the term pedophile. A pedophile is simply someone who is attracted to prepubescent people—nothing more. Most of them are probably not acting on it.

The article seems to me to be relatively good and—to me—contains no obvious fallacies. (What the author means is actually ephebophilia, but that's probably not that important.)

I'm sure it will happen one day, but it's quite a big challenge and you're up against all those bad habits build over the last 20 years. For example, developers really like customization. It's quite hard to provide a hosted environment that is fully customizable.

Also, parenthesis mismatch in paragraph 3.

But do you keep the spare one in a remote facility, to secure yourself against natural disasters?

I use NearlyFreeSpeech. The interface is one big PITA, but they're cheap enough and I like their TOS.

"Once a year my dog shits diamonds." CNR.

I think the soviets forced prisoners to stand as a form of torture. Standing still apparently literally destroys your legs after some time.

I was actually thinking about the absurdly high cost of high speed tracks (tens of millions per kilometer). But yeah, oceans are somewhat of a problem.

Looking at current research I would think that in the future plastic cans will hurtle across the sky, powered by more flammable but biodegradable chemicals. ;)

I think airplanes are here to stay for some time. There are few alternatives, one of them high speed rail, which has its own problems.

I use ratpoison on a ThinkPad X201. I basically only have one xterm with tmux and one browser open. Ratpoison is the least annoying window manager for that.

That would be rather easy. Make a bookmarklet that redirects you to a site, which then presents you the page with an overlay. Cross-site scripting policies prevent a naive implementation.

I think it already has been tried. I don't think it's all that useful, but if you really want, send me an email (see my profile for address), and I will build it for you.

Also, configuring the firewall to interrupt your ssh session.

For class, I built a RSA implementation that was susceptible to frequency analysis. That wasn't so bad, considering that I was a pupil, however the fact that I got an A+ for it was slightly strange.

Well, I think this is the oddest thing ever submitted to HN, at least as far as I remember.

I'm not even sure what it is. It's probably humor, but I'm not sure.

Edit: Seems like it's supposed to be speculative fiction. Hm.

However, the amount of money per child is (at least in Germany) so small, that it would be dumb to have a child and expect to profit from it.

(a) Sex is cheap, good entertainment. (b) If you are already poor, children aren't going to make it any worse. (c) For some reason, most people really want to have children. (d) Humans aren't exactly rational creatures.

Free birth control, as well as better sex education (which is, from what I've read, hilariously bad in the US) would probably help quite a bit.

The geographical disadvantage of the US is probably to blame for this. I don't think that there's a substantial number of rural poor in western Europe.

I don't think that there is any town in Germany that is not reachable by bus, and our inner cities have at least adequate public transit.

Apart from free health care, good public transit could turn some things in the US.

There's a program in Germany which has well-educated non-teachers teaching and tutoring pupils in low-income areas. It's quite new, but from what I've heard (from a teacher), it's going to help, mostly by showing pupils possibilities.

If you can, try engaging or tutoring pupils in low-income areas.

Surprisingly, this is the first time this article was submitted to HN.

It's quite interesting. Some of these things happen in all developed nations, but quite a significant number of them only happen in the US. For example, it did not realize just how fucked up health care is in the US prior to reading this article.

>>> When someone creates an event on Facebook they can tick a box saying "anyone can view and RSVP (public event)". <<<

Seems to be a classic case of a user blindly clicking anything to continue.

pgpool-II seems to be well maintained and simple. I'm not sure what you wish for, but pgpool-II seems to be it.

I think MySQL's swappable storage engines make building replication a tad easier. Actually, I have no idea.

They aren't spamming. The articles are only somewhat useful, but still better than nothing. Also, those articles are actually wanted.

Demand Media fares very well when compared to Mahalo.

This particular articles pops up every couple of months. Sure, it's quite interesting, but it's time-saving if you know that it's older and you don't have to reread it.

AFAIK this is how Demand Media (eHow) works. Hundreds of freelancers at low rates manufacture articles that are needed.

Actually, just make witty observations about HN, hacker culture, ...: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672032

Being an early commenter certainly helps, but it's not essential. HN moves a lot slower than reddit and has a lot less comments.

I'm starting to build one right now. I'm actually procrastinating on another project.

Current: Standard Mac OS X structure + Code/ + Games/ + .bin/

On Arch Linux I had: downloads/ files/ games/ media/ projects/ school/ tmp/ work/

Not the most optimal layout. There was a quite a big overlap between tmp/ and downloads/ and tmp/ and projects/. files/ should have been labeled personal/. downloads/ got bloated. school/ was the only well organized directory.

When I get my laptop, I plan to use: downloads/ personal/ work/, and depending on whether I need it, media/. Depending on whether I use fossil, work/repos/.

Perhaps I should set up some script to auto-purge downloads/, but I'm sure that would lead to disaster.