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So the buyer donates to his friend, and his friend donates to him, and effectively no one ends up paying the computer tax.

Doesn't that completely validate the way in which I used Chomsky? I wasn't being negative.

your humor detection may be broken.

That wouldn't matter since we are talking about python, not assembly or C.

It is impossible to know what is outside of our lightcone.

The laughter is coming from the size implied by "cedar plank".

I would say that you have much more creative freedom as a tenured professor (if getting to that point hasn't completely destroyed your spirit) than as a startup founder. Look at some of the stuff Noam Chomsky has been able to devote almost all of his time to--it sure isn't linguistics.

You also just described the major problem with the government artificially allowing such a thing as a limited liability (I'm talking about legal, not debt) corporation.

As the slit gets smaller the percentage of photons that are bouncing off of the walls of the slit as compared to the percentage that goes through directly raises.

I find this interesting because I actually had a friend who worked the night shift there one summer in college (around 4 years ago). He was paid hourly.

I don't see all the mystery: people no longer beat their kids to the extent that they did 60 years ago. Maybe if they made the request as part of a game instead of as an order from an adult there would be more validity (but you can't go back in time to the '40s to make them change the experiment as well).

gnome-open for gnome users

Oh I don't know, maybe abstain from having an SEO category right on the front page?

Since the stake in Facebook was sold as part of a conditional advertising agreement, it shouldn't count as a "closing price".

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It has reversed before, why does it seem unlikely now?

Yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn.

He was talking about things like the YC summer/winter application forms, not the moderation system.

Lew Rockwell did a lot more to kill attention seeing as he was outed as the ghost-author of the [person we aren't allowed to talk about here]'s controversial newsletters.

Is this Hacker News or Valley Wag?

I actually read "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" a while back and all I could think the whole time was "binary search, binary search, huffman tree, something other than linear search please god".

it is a shame that find . -name "*{js,py,rb,php,html}" | xargs wc -l

I guess {} globbing is bash specific?

That's where the kidding part came in.

His performance helping a grade school kid with his population project? I kid, I kid.

vote in stupid polls

In the very limited field of dinky web calendars and todo lists, maybe, but not in the startup world in general.

Running a myspace/facebook "list of facts/preferences" style profile on your own webserver, that is spidered by someone like Google, and becomes queryable in the same manner as it is on those sites. You could even have a cryptographically signed token from some trusted entity that verifies that you legitimately have a particular .edu email address embedded as a semantic element on your page, and could use a spider service from google to collect comments made from your "friends" to put on your "wall", verifying their identity without them having to log on to your site. The one thing you can't handle under this scheme is varying privacy levels.

If FreeBSD would support Xen I'm sure they would be happy to oblige.

Then lets say you packaged that up as a library. Another guy did the same thing, but it worked a little different. Now random code breaks.

Once again Google plays down the significance of the PageRank patent. Is search amongst the giants really as similar as he says here? I know that Google has had to do a lot of tricks to avoid gaming of PageRank, but isn't PageRank still the core?