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The number of points you get is how many people also want more social engineering stories.

Couldn't you just press the Close button?

"If you think ... think again."

Why do so many journalists write in such cliched ways?

Does anyone what that interview is from footnote 8?

I think in Aristotle's Poetics he discusses the "best" plot for a play to have.

What does Wikipedia need $100'000s for?

"Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners should “jiggle their synapses a bit” by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, says Dr. Taylor, who is 66."

Socrates' mind will always be fresh.

"Prediction #16: ... Spelling by sound will have been adopted, first by the newspapers."

Language varies too much and too quickly. Wasn't that why we adopted spelling in the first place?

How did Hoffman and Kernighan meet?

This is the wonderful thing about Hacker News: it's always reminding you to work when you aren't.

My father taught me when I was young. Learned a few languages by myself. Tried making websites. Too easy. Tried making games. Too hard.

I stopped programming. Because I tried making games, programming is not for me. Maybe if I was not so ambitious, it would've been.

I'll never know: I'm trying things other than programming.

"Omit needless words!"

Which would you consider the Sonic Youth of today: Philip Glass or Lady Gaga?

The mammogram examples are everywhere! Where did it come from?

A sea mushroom!?

But this is what VCs like YCombinator do. They give the money to people who can create value, and get more on average back, thus letting them invest in more people later. And they get rewarded for it.

Isn't this just the same, but more abstract?

How did you escape that terrible, terrible prison?

What is meant by intuitive thinking?

P(winning the lottery) * winnings - (cost to play) < 0

I think this is false with startups, but the chances of succeeding are still low.

Why did they stop?

Intelligence helps society more.

Did anyone find the Beethoven subtly similar to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata?

Ah... so what is the plot in The Story of Ping?

I would consider straw men arguments more difficult to point out because you need to actually know about the subject to find them.

It already was a cheap solution to a complicated problem.

That contradicts this evidence. Men sitting were as selective as woman sitting.

What does the computer industry need saving from?

I've seen a few people like that before myself. I think that at least some of them know they can increase the resolution, and they try it, but they switch back before their eyes can adjust.

It was a misleading title.

Without any real backing, this would be discrimination, however.