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My definition is from the DSM and while it is true that there's always edge cases, in practice the gray area is pretty small. Especially when we're talking about serious things like schizophrenia.

A mental illness is a mental abnormality that significantly impacts on your quality of life or the lives of those around you. That's the definition.

It may well be that parasites contribute but there is also a genetic component to schizophrenia.

He struck it rich with Microsoft, survived cancer, and to thank the universe for all this amazingly good luck he decided to become an asshole patent troll.

Sometimes I just don't understand how people think.

Source?

One personal anecdote? And you didn't even try code reviews? I see.

> I'll take the quick and dirty every time.

This is gonna start biting you in the ass after a few years.

He has enough money, he won't need investors.

I guess as an aspiring minimalist I just don't care for chess sets or desk ornaments.

I have access to a decent-ish 3d printer and after several months I still don't haven't had any practical use for it.

So... why is there no second-hand diamond marketplace? Lots of people would want to buy cheaper diamonds and there has to be people wanting to sell theirs.

> To sum up, I am willing to do a mental test (memory, or IQ, as the smart drug promoter chooses) duel with anyone who claims that smart drugs have helped him become smarter.

What the hell would that prove?

If someone pokes an alligator and gets into trouble, is that blaming the victim?

You can't use this for FTL communication, sorry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

Agent Christopher K Stangl:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=512364171294

We should ask these people to post lists of their installed apps, maybe we can work out which app's list was leaked.

There is another, better way of measuring bitcoin velocity in a more meaningful way - Bitcoin Days. It gives more weight to transactions for coins that's not been spent in a while.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/845/what-are-bitc...

"May you come to the attention of powerful people."

-- Old Chinese curse

When you are on your deathbed, will you be happy with the time you spent editing titles?

I DO blame PG for the mindless enforcement of the "Title MUST match the linked page's title" rule. Sometimes this is a good rule but there really are exceptions!

EXAMPLE: This very post was actually submitted with the title

Yehuda Katz launches HN competitor - Lobsters

but then some mod just changed it to 'lobsters' which means absolutely nothing. How is that an improvement?

EDIT: Please invite me to Lobsters!

Which of those are you doing?

There's no good reason to use MySQL over PostGres these days.

I've not heard about this, you got a source for me?

Everyone is an expert on diet.

We got the 'food pyramid' which told everyone that eating loads of carbs is good for you and eating fat in any form is bad. It's gonna take decades to reverse this mistake.

We know this is not the case because intersteller dust absorbs light, while the dark matter does not emit or absorb light at all. The only effect we see is the gravity.

Every day I wake up and I think 'If only we had more social networks!'

The manufacturing cost is about zero but there are other costs, like transport.

Better than .com addresses these days though...

No, you're right, this is not a regular golf ball. Title is wrong.