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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 4,917 posts.
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James Randi: This Cruel Farce Has To Stop
James Randi Educational Foundation
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Google honors Topeka, Kansas by becoming... Topeka.
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Google backs gay marriage
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Why some businesses aren't allowed on Stripe
We’re building business infrastructure. As with other kinds of infrastructure (like hosting or electricity), we'd like to make it available to as broad a set of users as possible.
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Hacker News and pseudonymity
Mark Suster has a post about improving civility on YCombinator’s Hacker News: I’ve seen vitriolic responses on HN on several occasion. I mostly get hammered on HN if I writ…
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Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms
This website describes a technology, unhosted web apps, which we find so important that some of us quit our day jobs and other spend their evenings and weekends to work for the higher goal of free technology, not just as a job that pays the bill. Why do we work for free? Why are unhosted web apps so important? Why…
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Finding the laws that govern us
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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What happens when it's all glass?
Apple’s design dominance over the past decade has been due to industrial design first, software design second. Their hardware designs have inspired a generation. Over those last 10 years their software has gotten better and better too (it’s really damn good now), but it’s been…
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James Randi comes out of the closet at 81
James Randi Educational Foundation
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Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.
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EFF vs. Facebook: Part 2: "Facebook's Connections"
"Connections." It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes.Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created. Basically, Facebook has transformed substantial personal...
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Amazon speaks up about WikiLeaks decision
Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
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Debt: The first five thousand years
Debt has always involved institutions that control debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era that we have seen the creation of a planetary administrative system that protects the interests of creditors.
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