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>the submission detection script does not think that "www.domain.com" is the same as "domain.com", and treats them as different links.

Those two are not the same. Just like mail.google.com isn't the same as google.com.

If pg doesn't delete your comment, isn't he guilty of the same thing as The Pirate Bay are being charged with? (actually I guess he is protected in the US unless he gets a DMCA notice?)

I'd be so freaked out about great whites if I was swimming around with an oblivious seal like that..

Python already has a solution for callbacks:

    @reg_callback(button.onclick)
    def callback():
        do_stuff()

>Maybe this isn't "rational", but it is empirical

Actually it is perfectly rational; it just doesn't have as much to do with with a progressive tax as you might think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility

BS. Money's marginal value goes down the more you have--your 1st house is worth more to you than your Nth super car. After around 500k net worth, money is more about status and ranking than anything else--something that happens to be preserved under a graduated tax. The only other thing it is good for is perhaps real estate closer to a waterfront, a fancy downtown, etc.; under a graduated income tax that stays pretty much the same because there isn't as much money to be spent on it. Most of the value is in the land, not the construction.

Maybe he didn't design this for phonologists? I doubt anyone else has too much use for intra-word diffs.

There are two ways to enable everything to talk in a slick manner like this: brutal monopoly, or open standards. As evidenced by this video the "new" Microsoft has all sorts of cool ideas, but I'm willing to bet they see the enabler the same way as the "old" microsoft. Brutal monopoly.

Knuth: Selected Papers on Computer Science

http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Computer-Science-Language-Inf...

Why would anyone want to do this? It is completely zero sum. You aren't creating any wealth, even if you are making money.

Bankruptcy is by far the fastest way for this special case where you are using the profit to eliminate a debt. Warning: won't work for student loans from the government.

So you liked the prodigy solution better than email? Sure there was less spam.. but you couldn't talk to people

So if I get the gist of his argument, when an aspiring tyrant-king decides to take over a democracy "due to the unsual structure of [congress]," the new structure "is not [a fascist dictatorship] because of the mechanism through which [it] occurred."

(By the way, I support taking over the banks due to their unusual structure, the systemic risks they represent but do not properly account for due to a tragedy of the commons problem--where the commons is the system they are a part of--and for other reasons. I just don't think its not socialism.)

If V8 gets threading support and auto-vectorization, then if processors-graphics cards ala Intel's Larrabee take off, it may be a non-issue. Developers can just do a 3d engine in pure javascript and get roughly the same order of magnitude of performance as a GPU.

The real goal of it is to have mathemeticians available to translate journal articles into english for the curriculum-setting elder mathemeticians =P.

So when I click reply to an email, and preserves your entire text at the bottom of my reply, I'm guilty of copyright infringement? How about when I forward the school newsletter to the person the school meant to send it to?

I'm pretty sure we only get to hear the ones that complain.

Irrelevant. "So in colour [...]" not "so in sound [...]"

'LOLs' (and related cats) are fine on reddit, but not on here =).

Manages to break alt left-arrow "back" shortcut.

Unless everone thinks like the parent and those numbers become underrepresented.. and you can take it into the Nth level like a Keynesian Beauty Contest.

Give me one example where you would ever want a copy of a tuple rather than another reference to it.

Not just time available but also units sold; if you are looking for a niche item, you don't expect a lot of ratings.

In Lassez Faire economy anyone who creates a systemic risk discounts said risk by how big they are in relation to how big the system is.

It isn't total vapor when the OLPC already was a compelling proof of concept.

A lot of free credibility with who, the SEC? =)

As far as I know, to buy a kindle you have to log on to amazon.com with a computer (or iphone =P).

Writing well? http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-25th-Anniversary-Nonficti...

"Better Place" wants to do this with cars. Americans pretty much let most IP related policy get into looney land. But, don't fuck with Americans' cars. That is, unless you have military power to back it up and enforce martial law =P.

>No, that bit about dividends can't possibly be right. Relatively few public companies pay a dividend, and basically none of the other companies face shareholder lawsuits about the absence of a dividend.

Relatively few public companies are in Citi's situation. I wasn't saying all public companies have to a pay a dividend or face a lawsuit. Supposing Citi is practically insolvent, it would be irresponsible (legally/fiduciarily, not morally) to shareholders not to try and launder out as a much money as possible. Once it is paid to shareholders as a dividend, creditors can't go after it.