militiaman21

I think the focus of the poll is not to determine public attitude/opinion towards the substance, but to simply get a count of HN visitors who either do or do not consume it.

"quotations used liberally in comments"

This is the same approach I use. I set the expectation that my cellphone is NOT for you to reach me 24/7. You can sure try but I reserve the right to not answer for any reason. My phone is normally on vibrate or airplane mode.

Tobacco companies have no problems with marijuana - that's a new product line for them! They already have the machinery in place to roll cigarettes, so it's probably easy enough to change the substance inside of it.

I'm fairly sure the government knows where we all truly live.

UPDATE 3:45pm CT: Kirjner wrote us to say that he had "picked up a typo in our write-up. The $11 billion is not annual but total. I corrected it in our files. Please do so too if you can." In other words, rather than Google spending $11 billion annually, the analysts estimate this is what Google would spend over five years

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I'm 23 and I just finished reading this book. I even passed it on to a friend.

I'd love to see a cultural movement towards anti-urban, anti-density enabled by technology. You're not alone :)

In my view we would use technology to empower people to form stronger community bonds. The author mentions food industry tech, and that's a major part of my vision also. I think we need to move towards a locally grown seasonal food source instead of shipping food to all corners of the globe just because we can. That's just one piece to the puzzle though, there's obviously a lot more planning that would need to go into it.

You sound very pretentious. How can you claim to have the ultimate end-all definition of "shit that isn't there"? The mere fact that we are humans with extremely limited sensory perception should be enough to prove that "open your eyes" is not a good enough method to defining reality.

I mean relax dude... that's just like... your... opinion, or whatever dude. :)

Some people feel the opposite in regards to isolation. Introverts gather energy from spending time alone, and are actually drained by interactions with other people.