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I don't even... It makes me start thinking how many comments on HN are like this. I used to feel like sometimes comments on HN is as valuable as the original story. This makes me think about how many other well-formed read-title-only comments in disguise.

Time value of money, which in short summarized as "money available at the present time is worth more than the same amount in the future due to its potential earning capacity." [0]

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp

Title sightly inaccurate due to 80 char limit. Hint: not fired.

Title slightly inaccurate due to 80 char limit. Hint: Not fired.

Yeah but what to stop me from serving a fake popup over https://myfraudsite.com?

It's not just PayPal fraud per se. Leaking user's PayPal email address and password has a lot of other consequences. (Yeah yeah in theory you should use distinct passwords for different sites etc etc)

Related bugreport: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=373923

A reminder: the petition https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat... has not been responded yet, after more than one and a half years.

I believe that's the IP address of Google Public DNS, not Google.com per se.

Google has a program called DiRT (Disaster Recovery Testing)[0], when in a certain week of the year, some major exercises that simulating the loss of headquarters are carried out, including the (simulated) loss of some teams, some network connections in the headquarter and/or the physical access to the headquarters buildings. That makes a lot of sense when you place your headquarters at a place that can be demolished by an earthquake.

[0]: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516

I just searched on Delta.com. If you book a week ahead, the price for a round trip ticket in First/business class ranges from $6,000 to $11,000, so spending 10k in a month is "normal".

I closed this tab on my iPad and nothing happens.

Submitter here: For those who are not familiar with e-sport, Valve is holding The International 4, which is the biggest Dota tournament. The tournament begin with Valve's $1,600,000 base prize pool and Valve sells Compendium for $9.99. Each purchase contributes $2.50 to the prize pool. This thing begins on May. 9 and in 10 days, which is 2 months before the actual tournament, Dota players have contributed $4,028,459 as of now.

For the phenomenon of number string in email address, that's because they don't use QQ, an IM service from Tencent. For other numbers in domains, I think it's because number in Chinese are easier to pronounce, and easier to remember.

One reason why Chinese have less difficulty remembering and using these numbers than the western fellows might be the difference in pronunciation. In Chinese, all single digit number has the same structure: a consonant plus a vowel. For example, 7, in Chinese is pronounced as [ch-i:], while in English is pronounced as [ˈsɛvən]. Also, every digit takes the same time to pronounce. For example, a string "123456" is [yi:, er, san, si:, wu, liu]. That, in my experience, makes a long string of number easier to read out. And easier to read out means easier to memorize.

A side node: In China every kids in their elementary school if not kindergarten can recite the "table of multiplication". That is, they can remember the answer from 1 * 1 to 9 * 9. I doubt how many westerners can do so, due to the language difference.

Edit: The asterisk symbol is driving me nut.

I think its because you can not go significantly faster by adding another turbine and if you got a jet plane, you probably don't care about fuel efficiency.

“You allow these companies to illegally use public spaces.” The fix is either stop them from doing so, or make such action not illegal.

Then why would Hollywood propose that with its own money about an issue it don't care about? Surly it won't mention movie download because it doesn't want to stimulate you. But it will screw you.

Now you meet two.

What about the folks using Dvorak keyboard??

Exactly why any sort of autoplay on the page is bad.