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Re:Hacker News Data Analysis on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @12:53PM (#4665326)
It's not a YC startup and it's wildly successful.
Some places to start:

The Use of Knowledge in Society: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

Economics and Knowledge: http://www.econlib.org/library/NPDBooks/Thirlby/bcthLS3.html

Re:Groupon down 27%, hits new low of $5.50 on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @10:33PM (#4384178)
Don't catch a falling knife.
I believe it's called "casualties".
Thank you, Rick Scott!
Re:Why I use vim on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:30AM (#3450695)
"Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension."

(bursts into tears, runs out of room)

"SOPA...It's like handing machine guns to monkeys."

I've gotta try this out as an explanation of SOPA to non-techies.

Re:This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory on Friday January 06, 2012 @05:25PM (#3435362)
On that note, some music to listen to while looking through those photos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0F2KfCvhg
Re:Memory modules from Apple.com are 10x market price...why? on Thursday December 29, 2011 @10:12PM (#3406423)
16GB RAM Corsair from Newegg for $174.99 (until New Year's Day). Just sayin'.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233...

Re:Memory modules from Apple.com are 10x market price...why? on Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:57PM (#3406388)
The same. Bought 8GB RAM for my MBP from them for $50. Feels good man.
In an email? Whatever.
Yes.

This is not censoring, this is capitalism in action.

Re:Vim: revisited on Monday December 12, 2011 @12:44AM (#3342459)
(stares in wonder)
Re:Knuth and the Unix Way on Thursday December 08, 2011 @12:41PM (#3330103)
Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/664/
Re:A SOPA compromise is floated on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @09:18PM (#3327249)
Re:The single most useful Emacs feature on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @02:41PM (#3320672)
C-x C-t

Transpose the current line with the previous line.

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