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Almost missed the tiny link to page 2.

> I think we would be better off reevaluating business models rather than suffering the effects of trying to preserve out-dated ones.

What sort of business model do you think would be effective?

Yeah, that's one quote I just can't agree with. The amount of value I get out of a good book always hugely exceeds what I paid for it.

Humorous, sure, but I wonder what percentage of Google Books users will get the reference. If I didn't know about Twitter's fail whale, "Whale Fail" might seem totally random.

True - important since there are other ingredients in Red Bull that could have factored into the result.

Hmmm, I thought the TV networks had a policy of buying domain names mentioned on the air. Didn't NBC have to buy a bunch of unregistered domains that Conan mentioned a few years back?

This is one of those ideas I feel like I should have thought of.

Sure, Reddit's problems are caused by its size, the same way that Digg's are caused by its size. But this does not make the groupthink, mob mentality etc. any less irritating.

> But I would characterize Reddit (as characterized by what's voted up into default visibility) as fairly open-minded, even compulsively contrarian.

Have you been there recently? They're "contrarian" in the sense that they disagree with the non-Reddit mainstream, but they hardly respect contrarianism to their own views. I definitely would not call them "open-minded." (At least, not in the main subreddits. There are smaller, more intellectual communities within Reddit for which this is not as true.)

Just to clarify, you're judging this story after only 3 chapters? Because if you want to get an accurate impression of the story, you should push past chapter 5 at least. The tone of the story evolves considerably, and you might find you like it after all. (Though to quote the author, "If you still don't like it after Chapter 10, give up.")

Math Overflow had a joke thread a while back: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1083/do-good-math-jokes-ex...

Thank you for this. Yahoo! should copy and paste your comment onto the S4 homepage.

I still have trouble believing it, and I have a pretty good understanding how it works.

The difference between "genetic accident" and "intelligence" is not big.

Cool. Would be even cooler if you could specify a range.

The mosque builders deny making any such deal, according to MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39074573/ns/politics-white_house...

I don't know that the internet is the world's greatest library yet. In 5-10 years, when Google and Amazon have scanned every book in the world, maybe.

Technical explanation: The Disqus comments don't load until a second or two after the permalink's anchor jump (#comment-55003614) is attempted by the browser. So when the browser tries to jump to the comment, the comment isn't there yet.

> I got almost all my news from Digg for the past 3 years.

Wow. That doesn't seem like a good thing.

Reddit's logo today has the alien carrying a shovel... almost as if they're going to "bury" Digg.

Yahoo! cache since the blog is down: http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2...

I've been using 1Password's beta for Windows[1]. Anybody know if it's got any problems like this?

[1] http://agilewebsolutions.com/onepassword/win

Seconded, plus if you do ever need to use Google, try http://scroogle.org or http://ixquick.com instead. Both anonymously scrape results from Google and don't keep records.

I switched from Google Reader to Friendfeed about two months ago. So far, it's a much better fit for me. It looks and feels like Twitter but you can add RSS feeds (using the "imaginary friends" feature). Like Twitter, there's no "unread items" counter, if you skip something it just drops off the page.

This is also discussed in Methods of Rationality, chapter 25 (Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...

>Currently, the Gmail program is comprised of 443,000 lines of JavaScript, with 978,000 lines if comments are included.

Interesting - more comments than actual code (535,000 lines vs 443,000 lines).

Between this and the fact that Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be wiped off the map[1], I'm beginning to think MSM reports about Iran can't be trusted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel#...

Anyone else surprised that TechCrunch is hosted on Wordpress.com?