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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 338 posts.
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How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?
David Coursey from Forbes has a nice article on Gates titled – How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?There were a couple of line in Coursey’s article that rang very true.All that money y…
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Hacking The Status Game
I was taking an improv class, and the instructor gave us a game to play before getting on stage, so that we can turn off our over-rationalizing minds and get into the flow. The game was called Status , and it went like this:
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Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
Fill this in yourself.
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Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud
You probably have heard about alleged vote fraud in the Russian legislative election 2011. You might even have seen videos about cases of vo...
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Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?
wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.
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Progress against SOPA
When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few d…
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RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
RSS makes it possible for me to check 100s of sites a day. I only actually implicitly go and read two, everything else goes through the RSS reader. If I didn’t have RSS then I wouldn’t bother keeping an eye on that many sites in the first place. Because me and you—dear technical readers—don’t have to suffer that…
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We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future
UPDATE: This is now the topic of my South by Southwest proposal. Please go vote for and comment on it here. We're not going to have a jobless recovery....
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OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit
I canceled the OnStar subscription on my new GMC vehicle today after receiving an email from the company about their new terms and conditions. While most people, I imagine, would hit the delete button when receiving something as exciting as new terms and conditions, being the nerd sort, I decided to have a personal…
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Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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IEEE Refuses to Accept Public-Domain Papers?
It turns out that, in response to #3, IEEE is overriding its scientific referees and flat-out refusing to accept public-domain papers.
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