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The NYT writer must have visited one of those brogrammers startup. Either that or he just plain made it up. It really sounds like a description that came straight out of The Hangover.

Honestly, their findings are what I would have assumed in the first place. It makes more sense to me that people would use Zipcar because it's more convenient than buying your own car and paying insurance on it. The social and environmental factors seem to me more like an "oh by the way", rather than primary motivators.

Yes, George Costanza is the most authoritative voice on gun control laws.

This is the wrong attitude as well. Civics does not end at the ballot box. The most visible example in the past year is all the online protests against SOPA and PIPA that resulted in both pieces of proposed legislation being shelved. If anything, that should give you hope that we can still effect change if we work hard to do it.

Our Constitution codifies how we will give consent to the system to rule over us and how that system will rule. The Bill of Rights gives us the right to complain about anything that anyone does.

This is a crappy attitude. If anything, you should be motivating MORE people to vote.

Let's take Florida in 2008 as an example. In 2008, the voter turnout among the voting age population was just 58.5% of a voting population of 14.353 million people[1]. In the 2008 election, Obama received 51% of the vote, and McCain received 48%, with Obama beating McCain by roughly 240,000 votes[2]. That amounts to only 1.6% of the voter population. If turnout was higher by just 2%, and Republican voters formed most of that increase, then McCain would've won Florida. Granted, that wouldn't have given McCain the election, but it would've changed the results in Florida.

Of course, increasing voter turnout is something we're always trying to achieve, but the trend in the past decade is of increasing voter turnout each election. Who knows, maybe 200,000 extra votes will make Florida go Republican in 2012 instead of voting Obama again. But telling people not to vote because one vote won't make a difference is not going to help increase turnout.

[1] http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0398.p...

[2] http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=12=2002=0=...

Source code, or it didn't happen.

Wow, a kid who built a reactor at only 14 is the perfect candidate for Thiel's program. I wonder how he managed it.

Reading this, something occurred to me. If we are to champion "neurodiversity", should we not aim to accomplish neurodiversity in each individual, instead of neurodiversity in the population? By that, I mean diversity in neural activity, such that it doesn't reach extremes characterized by autism, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. In that sense, isn't embracing autism, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. actually the antithesis of "neurodiversity"?

Interesting that this op-ed comes out after his executive order giving him control over telecommunication systems during a national emergency made the rounds around the blogosphere.

Yeah, I think they should have used "equivalent" instead of "the same". "The same" has a stronger connotation and won't click with some people.

Similarly, the concept of democracy does work, but the problem is that it's reliant on an educated citizenry, which is unfortunately fading fast in the US.

I would say I'm not bad with math, being a physics student, but I have to admit I had to stop and think about 50% more and 33% off being equivalent. 50% more gives you 3/2 of a product, giving you a price per unit of 2/3 the original price, or 33% off.

Something is wrong with how we teach fractions, and it can be used to deceive people.

This truth has been understood for thousands of years. It's only with the coddling that has been going on in recent generations that it feels like a revelation.

Here's your Augmented Olympics opening ceremonies, courtesy of Deus Ex.

I would guess probably not for current webOS, maybe for webOS 3.0 since the community edition has been released.

They are more likely to use Enyo 2.0 on stock apps for Open webOS.

I would be interested in the autopsy results to see if a blood clot really did him off, or if it was exhaustion from 40 hours of playing a video game.

It seems there's a linear relationship between how much Samsung increases its lead over Apple and how aggressively Apple targets Android, Samsung, and other Android OEMs with patents.

This is great news. Enyo is a great framework for building apps on mobile and desktop. I created a Google Reader app using Enyo 2.0 and it is currently available on the Chrome Web Store. You can check it out here:

http://sanchezapps.com/touchfeeds

They could just give us removable batteries and keep the EPEAT grade.

I really don't think this is the kind of question to ask on HN, which hinges on the latest fads, the latest of them being Ruby on Rails and possibly Node.js. Use PHP if it's most convenient for you. Heck, I would say you should even use Perl if it's most convenient for you.

"Has anyone under 30 ever bid on something on eBay?"

I'm under 30, and I just won two auctions in the past week, bidding on many more to buy at the lowest price.

Really, we're posting articles from Pando? And it's from Sarah Lacey to boot. This article can't be anything but accurate. Oh, hold on, never mind...

"We hope [they] will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat."

That's what they all say. Can't they discuss this with the companies in question, instead of hurting people by disclosing their login information?

Really, so anything that doesn't criticize Microsoft is a Microsoft advert? Then does that make most of the tech blogosphere one giant Apple advert?

Well, at least they were balanced enough to let Nicholas post a response.

He posted something similar on his own blog (actually most of it is the same with some editorializing), and I have to agree. All the whining about Internet Explorer is really getting old. As Nicholas said, there has been enough whining. Microsoft has already listened, Microsoft has already made an effort to get people off IE 6-8 and onto IE 9, and Microsoft is pushing IE 10 hard with Windows 8. Beyond that, do we really need more whining? If it's users of old browsers you have a problem with, either suck it up and support them, or just don't support them and either make them see the hard way that they need to upgrade their browser, or see them go to a different web site and save yourself some work and/or whining.

The only way it will be disruptive is if it finally catches on. Wireless charging is nothing new. I personally think Palm and then HP did it best, integrating wireless charging with device functionality via API. I am curious what they mean about not plugging it in to ANY energy source.

Well our media did obsess over Kate Middleton's "fairy tale" wedding, and she still pops up on tabloids, so you can say the feeling is mutual.

Thanks Reddit, now go fuck yourself.

Hint: I don't mean I like you.

We need more protection from this kind of surveillance.

It is closely related to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PkgQQqpH2M&feature=playe...

That's the video of a stream of water frozen in time.

I just fail to see the big deal behind this. Really, isn't the games market enough to crowdsource distribution choices? This is only needed because Steam is a closed platform, which people seem to forget.