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theoneillon Ask HN: Rate my weekend project.

Depends what you mean by memes. The things on this site aren't really memes in the original sense of the word. The reason these things are boring is probably that as humor they fall on the far billboard end of the billboard-Shakespeare continuum: they are designed for quick (but inevitably shallow) appeal.

theoneillon Ask HN: Good digital watches for hackers?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579

theoneillon Asia's new aristocrats

Even in China, my dad didn't eat rice until he was in his teens.

What did he eat?

theoneillon Goldman docs: Facebook income $355m, revenue $1.2bn (first 9 months of 2010)

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/09/24/buffett_i...

theoneillon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

There's nothing illegal about age discrimination when choosing a cofounder, just as there isn't when choosing a friend.

theoneillon London's high-tech start-ups: Silicon Roundabout

"McKinsey, a consultancy, will share management expertise."

God help them.

theoneillon Zediva Streams Movies From Physical DVD Players, Argues It’s Legal

That's a metaphor.

theoneillon Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

50m is not the valuation; it's the amount of stock they're selling.

theoneillon To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it

Your comment would be more effective without the parts on either end.

theoneillon Microsoft registered fuckbing.com

Seems like the least we can do is use it. I propose we use this by default for links to bing.

theoneillon Failures in mobile space cost Steve Ballmer half his bonus

Not even that. His salary is rounding error compared to his net worth.

theoneillon Will America’s universities go the way of its car companies?

"The supply of papers that apply gender theory to literary criticism remains ample."

theoneillon New York's Water Filled With Invisible Shrimp

Reminds one of the invisible clams in Scientology.

theoneillon My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

The list _delirium and I are referring to is this one of 4 items:

    All three appear to be single white 20something males

I am in fact pretty nearly as bothered by the claim that it's a problem that all 3 are male, or in their 20s.

It's lame when someone writes off a group of people based on such superficial characteristics.

theoneillon My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

In a long enough list, by definition it's reasonable.

The problem is, this was a short list.

theoneillon My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

And their race is supposed to predict this? I've heard white people can actually be quite different from one another.

theoneillon My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

Why is it bad that they're white?

theoneillon 'Remove Google Background' surges to number 2 in Google Trends

You may well be right. The artists involved are exactly the ones that would be chosen in that scenario. Which is unfortunate.

theoneillon Wage Slavery - Applicable to [Nearly] Everybody?

It's just a figure of speech. There are plenty of other figures of speech that would be even more "offensive" if we applied this unreasonably strict standard to them.

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What matters is not the intention of the law but how it's written. This page says what's prohibited is "actual refusal to do business with or in Israel." Do you have some other source to back up your claim? Because judging from this page it sounds like it's illegal to boycott Israel period.

theoneillon What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebook Money

Raking in pledges, not donations. I wonder what the conversion rate is.

theoneillon Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

If you had to view source before you were sure, then it can't be a real problem, can it?

theoneillon High Speed Rail Plan: Catch up with the Japanese?

"Unlike Japan, France and other countries, the U.S. has no true high-speed train lines."

Unlike Japan, France and other countries, the U.S. is really big.

theoneillon Why do Finland's schools get the best results?

You say it's false that genetic factors account for 60-80% of variance in IQ. What is the current consensus about the actual number? 50%? 10%?

theoneillon Why do Finland's schools get the best results?

So what percentage of the variance do they account for?

theoneillon Leah Culver - Three weeks of iPhone development

Tactlessness ≠ balls.

theoneillon If Facebook and Orkut were to merge the value would be...

An instance of additive identity.

theoneillon ADD Nation, 90% of Social Media Referrals Don't Read

"How can anyone really judge the value of an article in under 10 seconds without reading any of it? The obvious answer, they can’t."

I was curious about this so I clicked on the link. The actual answer is that you can tell a lot about a site in just a second or two. As soon as I saw the tag cloud, I was gone.

theoneillon New Twitter office: fabulous design by Sara Morishige Williams

The 37signals guys like it when they're angry. It causes them to write blog posts that get them lots of attention.