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Ok I'll open up my computer case to see which way the board is mounted.

Nice quadruple-negative.

Pay to Win is the evil.

Magic the Gathering is good.

Because.

> and because the seller was a punk and refused to pay return shipping I threw them all away

That's not "punk" -- the seller doesn't want the garbage anymore than you do. Most vendors of inexpensive products don't want you to mail back returns. It's not worth it.

Yes, the intense competition drives minor incremental improvements. Not capital-intensive major inventions.

Were you thinking of something like the society mentioned i the article?

> So Mr. Johnson has started a single-issue union organizing campaign, EARN, for Employee Association to Renegotiate Noncompetes, and is collecting signatures at a website, noncompetes.org.

> The goal, Mr. Johnson said, is to create a “pop-up union” that would force EMC to abandon the use of most noncompete pacts.

Heard where?

> Can't say I have first hand knowledge, but I have heard that Angular dominates internally at Google.

Yes, Angular is better than Closure, the politically acceptable alternative for Google-internal.

"Such an hip and edgy Williambsurger".

The official inquest concluded that paparazzi killed Princess Di.

"press" != "paparazzi"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales#Death

> "as far to the right as practicable". No such requirement exists for automobiles.

Incorrect. Cars are required to drive at the speed of traffic or get off the road. Example: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.425

Bikes have the extra privilege of using the road at slow speed.

circles and lights cost a lot more than signs.

blowing a yield sign, into a collision, is as illegal as blowing a stop sign.

I notice that your examples don't include the "'begging for re-engagement from someone who doesn't need to use your app' email"

That sets an unhealthy social norm for the people who look up to you -- that the only acceptable state is unhappiness.

In the example on the home page, the traffic from Italy to Norway, avoiding Germany, travels across the ocean, which means it bottlenecked through undersea cables, the most thoroughly tapped network links in the world.

This research is of aesthetic interest, not practical interest.

Wow, I can't remember the last time I ran a shell directly on a prod machine. The very thought feels so dirty now.

And some American subcultures have a cuture around teeth goldening!

Those whiteners don't create the super-bright almost-blue color you get from the dentist.

Really? The Foundation has been founded. Does it need Bill?

Tou need to luck at marginal cost: An old person is going to die, 100% chance, and that will cause sadness, etc. The question is what is the marginal value in each extra year of life, not is the death itself undesirable.

Your question also touches on abortion, and the argument that a fetus deserves less protection from society because of its lack of social connection. http://www.equip.org/article/steven-pinkers-evolutionary-exp...

But you touch on a deeper question also: "saving lives" is a very modern idea. Traditionally, death was quote common all all corners of society, and the solution was to make more new people.

Why is multinational bad food?

3 people together hold enough voting power to make all decisions, and those 3 people wrote in their S-1 that they have no intention to ever listen to shareholders and analysts.

Can you name one organization of 50,000 people that is collectively smart?

That's a rather harsh way to limit your pity. I won't go so far as making the standard analogies of victim-blaming.

Because "Google employees might find out that pron interested in computers and dogs" is less sensitive than "someone might send pron to a Saudi Arabian prison to be tortured because pron talks to someone with the same last name as a suspected revolutionary"