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Everyone knows that the American dream can be found in the Scandinavian countries.

Losing what? In some sense they are... when you're at the top of a mountain, the only way is down.

AOL has been on a downhill spiral since the dialup days have ended. It doesn't surprise me that they're trying to latch on to the Huffington Post's media empire, as Brad puts it.

Senior citizens pick up papers, and all of them go to the voting booths.

I remember this woman speaking in the video stream. She's not ignorant, but rather heavily biased and convincing enough to sway others to her position.

Could we not turn HN into an activist site? Thanks.

""Let's not forget the REAL motivation for the US Gov't to buy these things [1] The former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff whose company, Rapiscan, miraculously won a contract worth $173 million just days after he left his office and essentially bought the company.""

[1] http://thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43/524...

I wouldn't use a smartphone with 8 cores and 4 GB of RAM and a long battery life if the user interface sucks. If Ice Cream Sandwich is mediocre from a usability standpoint, no hardware can save it.

I briefly talked to Ilya in March after he randomly gave me 9001 invites to Diaspora (some here might get the joke). It's like I won some weird sort of lottery. Anyways, it naturally encouraged me to invite lots of people, and I got about forty to sign up. He struck me as a very warm, fun-loving guy who was also fastidious in his work. I saw him announcing bug fixes and new features day in and day out. He really left a strong impression on me.

I'd really like to learn more about the circumstances of his death, and not out of morbid curiosity. I suffer from bipolar 1 disorder, and have been taken medication for two years since I was diagnosed after having a severe manic episode. His death was a bit of a wakeup call.

It'll probably make apps better if they know where every SSID is. I don't see this as a bad thing, although it is a minor privacy intrusion.

What is the significance of this over standard GPUs that can already do over a teraflop?

See table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Islands_(GPU_family)

If you write software for a big company then that piece of software could impact the lives of millions of people.

You left out the Call of Duty series.

It's very unreasonable since they deposited the money and had zero transactions. Dwolla got the money from their bank account, and my parents wanted to send it back to the same account.

It's even more unreasonable since they gave no notice that there was a hold on the withdrawal.

Except that dealing with the Dwolla people is far worse than Visa/Mastercard.

My parents put $2000 in a Dwolla account, did nothing with it, and two months later decided to withdraw it. Dwolla put a hold on it for over a week without any notification, and my father finally decided to call. On the phone they said 'well you know, $2000 is a lot of money'. My parents had to send over scanned photo identification just to get their money out.

Anyways, what I learned is that Dwolla's customer service is terrible. I don't recommend it to anybody.

When you are watching tv, you could be planning how you will do your next creative work.

I find it appalling that much of his notability is the fact he committed suicide.

I found it really interesting how young women take less breaks, although I'm not too surprised. I remember in school that girls would seem to spend so much time studying, while I would take studying and homework 'binges'.

Nothing is ever flawless. If you focus on refining one technology too long, the world will change around you and it'll become obsolete. Imagine Microsoft patching Windows 95 for 15 years.

Only Willy Wonka and Richard Branson would buy one?

CNN Money reports that it was confirmed suicide.

Nearly every poor adult has a cell phone. I can't tell if your comment was sarcastic or not.

It is simple like walking from New York to Florida and back, over and over, is simple. You just put one foot in front of the other.

That would make interstate commerce regulation pretty interesting.

I find it amazing how so much chaotic data can be represented by simple abstractions.

Maybe you should make it the newest bidder can leave a message?

If abstaining from something secludes you from your peers, then the abstinence likely would have a larger negative effect.

That said, in college I did go out drinking with friends quite often. Just because that's what everyone did, and it was fun. My best memories are from then.

It's a very tough question because 'planning' can include time when I'm in the shower, falling asleep, or driving to work. I work at a megacorp though, not a startup.

It'll be interesting if there will be a new super organic which means nothing artificial involved.