==== Why Global Jihad Is Dead (my test run of jottit) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2py5d/comments/c2q2hp Sorry; fixed now. BTW, you'll get a faster response if you send us an email or fill out the feedback form. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1okns That's not inconsistent with the other statements. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oim8 Yeah, I've lost weight since I was fifteen. Finally, random people on the Internet say something nice about me! ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 38) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oft2 I don't think it was one of the most important events of my life. It is still pretty odd, though. I kind of wish I could meet these people in person. Hey -- if anyone of you live in San Francisco, you can come and make fun of me to my face. Just ask judgmentalist -- I don't bite. Email me@aaronsw.com to schedule a time. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 30) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1ofs3 Yeah, I certainly learned my lesson. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1ofmo I'm sorry I'm such a bad person. If anyone wants to give me advice on how to do better, I'd love to hear it. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 28) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of8x I'm sorry if I sounded haughty; I'm actually just an untalented hack who got lucky. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 28) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of8b I'm very small. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of7x Sorry, you can have the credit. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 29) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of7u It wasn't a cold; it was a serious illness. I spent the week lying in bed clutching my stomach, with occasional breaks to gush blood. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of7e Did I say the predominance of women was prima facie evidence of discrimination? My recollection is that I provided actual evidence of discrimination. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of6u I'm sorry you think that; I'm actually a pretty bad person with no real talent. I guess I'm so incompetent that I even failed to communicate that. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of6c Don't blame me; I didn't vote it up. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of5b I'm sorry you thought that immodest. In truth, I'm not the world's greatest programmer and most of my success has been due to luck and social incompetence. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of4p > there does appear to be a rather long trail of abandoned or unsuccessful projects behind him. There are and I feel bad about that, but all I really know how to do about it is learn from my mistakes and try again. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of4i I'd love to -- do you have any specific suggestions on how? And my apologies about the lack of haircut. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 40) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of3x Yes, there is a piece of the story you're not getting, but out of loyalty to Steve and Alexis (who I still think are great guys, although I gather they probably hate me) I'm not going to be the first to tell it. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of26 Yeah, we were all living in the same city working on startups, spending dinners and social events together, helping each other out and giving each other advice. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 36) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1of1q Yes, Steve and Alexis originally proposed with another idea (a cell phone-based fast food ordering system). That idea wasn't accepted (I think it was generally agreed that it was impractical to do in the YC model), so they ended up doing Reddit, an idea batted around between me and Paul and Steve and Alexis and probably some others. Steve and Alexis eventually started working on it while I declined to work on it in favor of Infogami, which I thought was more interesting. Then my co-founder left, I couldn't find an apartment, and my funding deals fell apart months into the negotiations. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 88) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oezk I think this is a bit unfair, but in spez's defense he may not know the whole story. I was deathly ill when I came back from Europe; I spent a week basically lying in bed clutching my stomach. I wrote a morose blog post in an attempt to cheer myself up about a guy who died. (Writing cheers me up and the only thing I could write in that frame of mind was going to be morose.) People got freaked out and misinterpreted it as a suicide note (perhaps understandably; I wasn't exactly in my right mind when I wrote it). Alexis even had the cops break into my apartment. I took it down to avoid further trouble for a while; it's back up now with some minor edits ("Alex" used to be "Aaron"). ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 47) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oeyp In my defense, I wasn't trying to be a jerk. That's not much of a defense, though. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 36) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oeya I think this is a bit incorrect. As noted above, I was looking for either funding, a partner, or an apartment. The merger ended up getting me all three (with some give on the apartment part). We legally merged the two companies (originally named oubliable and redbrick) into a new one, not a bug. And the original idea was that we would work on Reddit and Infogami together. For a variety of reasons, this didn't work out as we planned, although the existing Reddit is indeed built on top of some Infogami code. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 30) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oewv > I'm cautious about getting some guy foisted on me by the money. Unless the guy you're worried about is PG, I don't think that's very likely. I think Steve and Alexis would agree that I wasn't "foisted" on them. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 50) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oewi > I was totally floored when he called himself one of the "founders". One of the points of the merger was that we would all call ourselves co-founders, so that's what I've been doing. I'd be happy to stop if that's what Steve and Alexis wanted, though. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 45) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oevw > I'm pretty sure the story of pre-YC reddit is that Steve and Alexis were interviewing by themselves, and almost got rejected, but then came back. Aaron also entered the program separately, trying to found Infogami. He then merged with Reddit in November. WTF, man? Yes, that's what happened. I'm sorry if what I said was confusing. ==== why you can't trust the results of Freakonomics (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zk4r/comments/czk4s Daniel Davies is an international treasure. ==== The Google Life: How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (score: -5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/upui/comments/cusou Huh? You have no idea what you're talking about. ==== The Google Life: How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (score: 0) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/upui/comments/cusoe Every time I've gone to Google they've either offered me a cushy job or to buy my company or both. ==== What reddit looked like in July 25, 2005. (score: 48) ==== http://reddit.com/info/t5ns/comments/ct622 Wow, so much has changed... Paul Graham now posts under 10 psuedonyms instead of just one! ==== Lazy Backup (score: 9) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/t2dc/comments/ct61n The title starts with Lazy. ==== Reddit at the Wired office (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/r2i3/comments/cr7wy I wrote that because people keep asking. But since I'm always trying to find ways to stop pissing people off, I'll take it down. ==== Newly-elected Jim Webb an old-fashioned class warfare populist (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/r5to/comments/cr7wr Because the people calling it "class warfare" are in the capitalist class. ;-) Personally, I'm pro-class warfare. ==== Reddit at the Wired office (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/r2i3/comments/cr4e5 I think you meant to say "Welcome to the desert of the real." ==== Reddit at the Wired office (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/r2i3/comments/cr4dw Yeah, that's the way companies get bought. You could insist on not being sold, but it'd probably bring the asking price way down. ==== Lecture Musical prank [video] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/o90g/comments/cqr2a He laughs pretty uncomfortably. And different camera angles is just good preparation. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/cpyfe Ask Alexis to add you to the list. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/cpye0 I think I've fixed most of the slow-down problems. ==== Reddit Acquisition: The Afterparty (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ozpv/comments/cp0la I'm not bummed, just was feeling odd. I think it's just me. ==== ABC memo reveals Air America advertiser blacklist (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/oo0v/comments/coo18 more info ==== We want to know how much Reddit was bought for (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/omkb/comments/conz1 Does seem to be a pretty popular choice. Google isn't saying how much they bought JotSpot for either. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/conym No and no. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/conor You did a pretty good job of describing what happened. There's a chance it might come back after the acquisition. ==== We want to know how much Reddit was bought for (score: 66) ==== http://reddit.com/info/omkb/comments/conod Sorry, can't. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/conbn We're still happy to redditize anyone who's interested. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/con06 Wow, that hurts. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/comqs When we launched nobody knew about Digg and you couldn't submit stories to Google News. ==== Vampires a Mathematical Impossibility, Scientist Says (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nrma/comments/cokvj A Stanford study of Buffy found that with slayers keeping the population down, the vampire population on the show was really quite reasonable. ==== Planning 9/11: The Secret Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld Transcripts (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/neze/comments/cnhq7 Why not worth the time of day? ==== YouTube - Richard Dawkins on BBC News (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/n81r/comments/cn89j It's always fascinating to see how much better-produced British TV is. ==== Study estimates 655,000 Iraqi deaths due to invasion (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/lod7/comments/clod9 "If you admonish a revolutionary for the bloodshed he is causing, he will tell you that you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Ask where's the omelet and he will tell you Rome wasn't built in a day." -- George Orwell ==== Why Writing is Harder than Programming (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/koq8/comments/ckqpm Speak for yourself... ==== Milgram's "six degrees of separation" experiment was a fraud (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/i687/comments/ci7oj Yes, and just to be clear, let's think about why only 5% of the letters reached their targets. Average response rate to surveys by mail is about 60%.† If the six degrees rule is true, then, on average, six different people have to respond for the letter to get through. The chance of this happening is 60%^6 or 5%. This doesn't mean people aren't connected by six degrees; it just means they don't always follow bizarre requests from strangers. ==== Who Writes Wikipedia? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/g9si/comments/cga1n I think Wales was only counting the people who created an account for those numbers. ==== Was Welfare Reform a Fraud? (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/fa01/comments/cfa03 I was planning to write something like this, but I also would have noted the studies showing that practically everyone on welfare already worked. ==== Swedish Pirate Party Launches World's First Commercial Darknet (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dgsx/comments/cdhx2 Tor traffic is encrypted to the exit node, but then it's unencrypted from there. ==== Swedish Pirate Party Launches World's First Commercial Darknet (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dgsx/comments/cdhx0 Tor just transfers TCP, so it can be used by all applications, not just the Web. ==== the most diverse picture ever (notice the dude with one arm) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/d6kb/comments/cd9qk The compensatory problem is that the scholarship giving out people don't seem to understand statistics either, so they never justify such things by pointing to the actual numbers (which are easy to calculate). ==== minutes of work necessary for the avg worker to buy gas [jpg] (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a6br/comments/ca834 Here you go: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/GasMinutes100Mi.jpg> ==== minutes of work necessary for the avg worker to buy gas [jpg] (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a6br/comments/ca82y Doug Henwood (who made the graph) says: > Some people commented that my work minutes for gas graph would be better if it were adjusted for changes in fuel efficiency (which, it should be said, has been more or less flat since 1995). Sooo...number of minutes for the average worker to earn enough to pay for enough gas to drive 100 miles: > http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/GasMinutes100Mi.jpg> ==== Op-Ed Contributor: Thank You for Hating My Book (score: 1) ==== http://nytimes.reddit.com/info/9whh/comments/c9wkd Take that, Ana Marie Cox! Guess the op-ed pages don't like the review pages... ==== The Hong Kong Experiment by Milton Friedman (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8khx/comments/c9sva OK, here's the problem with this so-called "experiment" -- Hong Kong and the east Asian countries succeeded precisely because it had an ultra-powerful state, strong enough to beat labor into submission and introduce serious capital controls, while using state intervention in the economy to coordinate production. In other words, they succeeded because they didn't obey the market. ==== Richard Stallman "[is] skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children." (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9qbn/comments/c9qoo There's a fantastic book on this subject which argues the research shows that "children and teenagers can have sexual pleasure and be safe too", "sexual expression is a healthy and happy part of growing up". ==== Paul Graham Interview About Web 2.0 (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9mwg/comments/c9nm9 Nobody says Paul's a brilliant public speaker, but after watching that clip he's sure better than Tony Robbins. ==== The Power of the Marginal (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8mk5/comments/c8ps7 Yeah, I definitely felt that in the middle of this one Paul hit the point where he should stop giving examples and just start arguing for his theory. ==== Ask reddit: I propose reddit management to periodically share its profits with top 5 karma earners (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8hdw/comments/c8hru The top five karma earners account for only 10% of total karma on reddit. ==== Universal National Service Act of 2006 to require military service from all persons 18 to 42 (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7c23/comments/c7c4a If the country as a whole has to take the brunt of the war effort, instead of just those forced into poverty, perhaps we'll reconsider what we're doing to the Iraqi people. ==== Where's the Outrage? Around the Corner in a Cafe with Power. (Paul Graham) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6na3/comments/c71y5 That book is pretty absurd. I read its chapter on the media. It argued that Chomsky's claims about the media's conservative bias must be false because USA Today has an affirmative action policy towards gay people. (Chomsky doesn't even claim the media has a conservative bias!) Anyway, I'm not your Chomsky quote library, but I went to his website, clicked on articles and then scrolled down to "Cambodia". It starts: "a response by the Pathet Lao and North Vietnam, who now control more of Laos than ever before, [] led to devastation and population removal on a vast scale." (1970) So maybe you can do some cursory research yourself before asking silly questions. ==== Where's the Outrage? Around the Corner in a Cafe with Power. (Paul Graham) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6na3/comments/c6xby Here's an example of this "support": "Lenin and Trotsky [] proceeded to create the basic proto-fascist structures converted by Stalin into one of the horrors of the modern age."† ==== Where's the Outrage? Around the Corner in a Cafe with Power. (Paul Graham) (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6na3/comments/c6xbq I was talking about left anarchism. ==== An open letter to Al Gore from his 'good friend' (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6p3l/comments/c6q0f That petition has been pretty thoroughly debunked. ==== Where's the Outrage? Around the Corner in a Cafe with Power. (Paul Graham) (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6na3/comments/c6q02 Umm, if you think anarchists support communism, you're terribly confused. Anarchists oppose central government, communists support a strong central government. Pretty big difference. ==== feeds.reddit.com -- social web feed reader (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6ir5/comments/c6j2c It only shows posts that were added after you've subscribed. ==== Graph of industry profit margins [jpg] (score: -4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6grv/comments/c6hkl The URL notes that the graph was made this week. ==== Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity - John Stossel on science in the media (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5wa8/comments/c06524 Except it's totally bogus. ==== What would our University system look like if it operated like the k-12 system? Look to France. (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5wfl/comments/c5xar What would our health system look like if it operated like the VA? Look to France. ==== IBM R&D Efforts Include Teleportation (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4zs7/comments/c501v It's only quantum teleportation, which is rather different. ==== More on risk, or why this Reddit title is misleading (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4z3f/comments/c4zws I didn't see anything in this article about why this reddit title was misleading, only why the last one was. Why can't this article get its act together? ==== Reddit Posts Pass so Quickly... One Real Way to Save My Favorite Ones: (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4zlz/comments/c4zp9 It would be nice if reddit archived the page. ==== Why did nsfw subreddit vanish from sub.reddit.com? (although it still exists) (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4tv6/comments/c4txy You guys do know there's a feedback link for these kinds of questions, right? ==== Why reddit.com Is A Wasteland Of Liberalism (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4qku/comments/c4r53 This article doesn't actually answer the question why these things are at the top of reddit. The reason is because they're popular. Bush's approval rating, according to Fox News, is at 33% right now. In opinion polls, the population consistently supports left wing positions on major issues like universal health care and the environment. Even a majority of Bush voters thought that Bush supported things like the Kyoto protocol! So the real question is not why popular positions make it to the front of reddit, but why fairly unpopular right wing ones so often do. ==== 60 Scientists blast Kyoto (score: -12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4e8a/comments/c4emb They could only find 60 scientists? Pretty embarrassing. ==== An Inconvenient Truth: stunningly good trailer for new global warming film (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4e33/comments/c4ee5 The UN commissioned an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to investigate the subject, inviting all the top researchers in the field. The national science academies of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the USA met to address on the report. Here is their joint conclusion: Climate change is real > There will always be uncertainty in understanding a system as complex as the world's climate. However there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. The evidence comes from direct measurements of rising surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures and from phenomena such as increases in average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes to many physical and biological systems. It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities (IPCC 2001). This warming has already led to changes in the Earth's climate. [PDF] ==== An Inconvenient Truth: stunningly good trailer for new global warming film (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4e33/comments/c4ee3 What I made was a clear factual statement; if it was actually wrong, you could give evidence instead of mocking it. As for the scientists part, look at the results of the IPCC. For the politicians, that was a little hyperbolic, but you certainly don't see any major political figures leading a charge on this issue, despite its overwhelming popularity among the public -- so popular, in fact, that a majority of Bush voters support the Kyoto Protocol. Yes, Bush voters. ==== An Inconvenient Truth: stunningly good trailer for new global warming film (score: -5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4e33/comments/c4e9d You're right. Every major scientist believes global warming is real. Every major politician believes it isn't. Apparently you think the solution is to keep censoring the scientists. ==== There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/46oe/comments/c47xs As Tim Lambert notes, this story is bogus. Check out his page for the graph of the data this absurd claim is based on. ==== White people riot in Brooklyn, media calls it a "protest" (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/405z/comments/c40bl I didn't want to get flamed for having the headline "Jews riot". ==== White people riot in Brooklyn, media calls it a "protest" (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/405z/comments/c40bk Yeah, because the first thing people do when they read headlines is go check a dictionary. ==== Republicans defeat Net neutrality proposal (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3zjb/comments/c3znc Reading this article is amusing if only to watch the battle between Declan and his co-author (or perhaps even between Declan and himself) over how to spin the story. Republicans are attacking net neutrality! But wait, that's just "extensive regulations [that] forcibly prevented" businesses from doing what's best! ==== Progressive "Witch-Hunt" At American Universities... (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3vt0/comments/c3wha The best examples of conservative speech being suppressed you can come up with are from 1995 and 1987? Hardly sounds like a serious problem. ==== What's Happening to Boys? Young Women These Days Are Driven -- but Guys Lack Direction (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3w5j/comments/c3wh1 The more interesting question is why people feel they need to be ambitious and get "good" jobs -- a question Barbara Ehrenreich carefully investigates in her book Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. She concludes that middle class people feel they have to continually strive because they're constantly afraid of falling down the socioeconomic ladder and becoming like the poor people or white collar workers they see in the media. ==== Are Software Patents Evil? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3q8f/comments/c3qah I have trouble thinking of an example of something that without a patent would have to be kept secret. Public things, like one-click ordering, can't be hidden. And private things, like an internal spam filtering algorithm, seem like too much effort for anyone to try and specifically copy. (Anyone smart enough to discover and copy such an algorithm would probably spend their time coming up with their own solution.) ==== To All the Girls I've Rejected: How Equal Gender Opportunity Makes It More Difficult For Women To Get Into College (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3mxb/comments/c3n64 How are teenage boys at risk academically in a way that teenagers in general aren't? ==== Noam Chomsky investments (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3ea8/comments/c3ib3 Chomsky finally to the specific charges: > A person who issues that charge that someone adheres to the principle "do as I say, not as I do" (the actual charge) has three options: (1) produce an example; (2) withdraw the charge; (3) take the coward's way out and slink away silently. So far, no one has provided even a single example (if you can find one, I'd be glad to know about it and correct the practice). Thzt leaves (2) or (3). The examples you mention obviously won't work unless you can produce a statement of mine saying that others should not do exactly what I do. You'll find no such statement, either in the literature to which you are referring, or elsewhere. I'm omitting the many pure fabrications that accompany these charges. † ==== Who dares to say that there is bias in the mainstream media! (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3hwx/comments/c3i2o Yeah, how dare journalists dislike the behavior of politicians! Such right-wing bias -- there was never any of that during the Clinton years. ==== Nature mag cooked Wikipedia study (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3fve/comments/c3gns Well, the fact that the commenters all espouse one position doesn't mean much. This page is staying towards the top of reddit so there must be a "silent majority" in support. ==== Noam Chomsky investments (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3ea8/comments/c3en9 Please. Chomsky's schedule consists of appearing on every television and radio show that invites him (quite a lot), giving talks at venues around the world (for which he receives no money), writing articles for every publication that will have him (the Khaheej Times, for example, was to first to invite him to have a weekly op-ed column and he dutifully submits a piece every week), publishing books which become bestsellers, and answering every letter and email sent to him. Transcripts of his talks and interviews and copies of his articles are all posted for free on his website. True, a lot of people find they can make money by selling copies of these things, but I'm pretty sure they aren't doing it at Chomsky's request -- or even giving him royalties for it. Criticizing him for this is like attacking Che Guevara for trying to become an international brand -- it's not like the guy had anything to do with it. ==== Noam Chomsky investments (score: 34) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3ea8/comments/c3emu Dupe. The first time this was posted, I asked Chomsky's webmaster about the allegation that Noam charges $12,000 for lectures. He forwarded an email from Chomsky himself: > No honoraria required for talks, and in the rare cases when there is one, it goes to some good cause. Nothing I enjoy more than speaking to audiences of the kind you describe. The rest of the is similarly bogus. The author provides no evidence that the people who sell copies of Chomsky lectures pay Chomsky any royalties. After all, Chomsky has no problem with letting pretty much everything he writes be posted to the Web for free. And it just seems absurd to call him hypocritical for appearing at a non-profit's fundraiser. As for the issue of trusts, considering the inaccuracy of the rest of the article, I wouldn't be surprised if that bit was misleading as well. ==== Infogami allows permission control for *every* page (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/3co5/comments/c3d3u Sorry, there was a bug. We try our best but developing in public these things happen. Again, my apologies. (I sent an email out to everyone affected, including you.) ==== Paul Graham on BW on 37 Signals (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/38fh/comments/c38fl The distinction between the PG philosophy and the 37signals philosophy, as far as I can tell, is that PG suggests you add more features to your software whereas 37signals suggests that you implement as few features as possible and spend your time making the ones you have work really well. The original Google is a good example of the second type -- mainly one feature, done really well. But we couldn't think of any successful sites that won through constantly adding features. ==== 6,631,372 (Paul Graham gets a patent) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/352u/comments/c35lv That wording is due to PG's editing. ==== CIA purchased rights to Animal Farm and altered ending (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/34ok/comments/c35lq I think that's a list of programs the CIA contributed to. Presumably they were featured denying UFOs. ==== The Pirate Bay: Here To Stay?: the bittorrent site no one could stop (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/31la/comments/c31uz Forget the article; what about the legal notices? ==== Women in Science (Adjusted for IQ and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States) (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2l6r/comments/c2pfg Would you expect the psychologists to admit their tests are worthless? You might as well say you know God exists because a lot of priests told you so while you were leaving Church. ==== Women in Science (Adjusted for IQ and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2l6r/comments/c2pfe There's a difference between a success and a superstar. And getting a job for life upon gaining tenure is a perk? I thought that was the definition of tenure. ==== Women in Science (Adjusted for IQ and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States) (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2l6r/comments/c2pfc That, plus the being evil all the time really takes its toll. ==== Women in Science (Adjusted for IQ and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2l6r/comments/c2pfb Do you have a counterargument or are you limited to just calling the article dumb? ==== Blog Software in Infogami (Blog Widget) (score: 1) ==== http://infogami.reddit.com/info/2lze/comments/c2myg How is this different from what's already there? ==== Forgotten Login/Password - duh! so soon ;) (score: 1) ==== http://infogami.reddit.com/info/2mjz/comments/c2myf For now you can go to http://reddit.com/password and it should work but, yeah, we should add this soon. ==== /random only shows sites that don't start with "It worked!" (score: 1) ==== http://infogami.reddit.com/info/2m6k/comments/c2my6 DONE! ==== Diff functionality between page history snapshots. (score: 1) ==== http://infogami.reddit.com/info/2jbw/comments/c2mx8 DONE! ==== re-use reddit "remember me" cookie... (score: 1) ==== http://infogami.reddit.com/info/2l75/comments/c2lq0 The bad news is that this would require a redirect every time you visit an infogami site for the first time. 43things.com does this and it's kinda annoying. ==== One-click editing isn't working. Or at least i think it's not. How is it supposed to work? (score: 1) ==== http://infogami.reddit.com/info/2it6/comments/c2los You're supposed to be able to click the edit link and get a text box where you can edit the page. How does it work for you? (BTW, you'll get a faster response to these sort of questions if you send feedback.) ==== Infogami launched yesterday (YCombinator startup from Aaron Swartz and the reddit guys) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2aru/comments/c2ehr We already have one, it's just not exposed yet. ==== Subetha style collaborative editing done in Ajax (score: 0) ==== http://infogami.reddit.com/info/2b2v/comments/c2b4s I remember my friends at KnowNow showed me a demo of this a long time ago, before Ajax. It was pretty sweet. I don't think it ever launched -- getting JavaScript reliable was a real pain back then (it's only something of a pain now). ==== Infogami launched yesterday (YCombinator startup from Aaron Swartz and the reddit guys) (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2aru/comments/c2b29 Put in a request. Hopefully I'll have RSS feeds done tomorrow. ==== Infogami launched yesterday (YCombinator startup from Aaron Swartz and the reddit guys) (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2aru/comments/c2awr Yep, I'm pretty worried about that, but I hope I made it clear that this is very early. ==== Python code - simple blog in webpy (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29ux/comments/c2al7 The page was a wiki so I've taken the liberty of fixing it. As watkey notes, web.py has protection against this sort of thing built-in so I just changed it to use that. ==== MORE: The entirety of human experience, compressed into a 6-minute short film (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/281j/comments/c28oh It lost the Oscar to Bunny. ==== gladwell dot com - the bakeoff (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/15064/comments/c28od I'm surprised this didn't get more votes -- and I'm surprised to see Joel in a Gladwell article. I think it must be because of the title. ==== Google Page Creator Launched (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/25lg/comments/c02672 Not at all. ==== Running a Hatchery for Replicant Hackers -- Y Combinator WFP in the NYT (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23aa/comments/c23ul What's the demo URL? ==== A Mathematical Model of Reddit and Digg (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/20fi/comments/c22b3 Tom Lehrer, There's a Delta for Every Epsilon ==== Most 'economists' aren't: study finds econ Ph.Ds fail basic quiz (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/21kq/comments/c21mf Some interesting notes from the full study: fully half of the people asked had actually taught a course in Principles of Economics. And their excuses for not knowing are really pathetic. ==== The Daily Show's biggest fan finally gets to visit (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1yz3/comments/c1zqs What I found odd was how so many commenters thought it was a good thing there was no Colbert Report. ==== Thoughts on Paul Graham and YCombinator (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1z85/comments/c1zep "Get some competitors" isn't really constructive criticism. The only other suggestion is to invest different amounts of money. But the author ignores why YC invests that amount of money -- it's to give the programmers enough to live comfortably for three months while they build a prototype. ==== CNN redesigns their on-screen graphics - Web 2.0 look (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ywd/comments/c1yyi Why can't America ever get some decent graphics? ==== Where has the American Left gone? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1xt5/comments/c1ybf No, you're mistaking liberals for leftists. ==== Guido says - Let's just *keep* lambda (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1bpt/comments/c1c4z The argument against map and filter is that they're always more clear (if slightly longer) as list comprehensions. map(foo, l) looks like any old function, but [foo(x) for x in l] clearly looks like what it does. ==== Shouldn't reddit prevent this? (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1amc/comments/c1an8 Actually, it does. If you look you'll see that those articles are all marked rel="nofollow". ==== The Ph.D. Glut Revisited (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zda/comments/c18fs Einstein supported socialism, not Communism. He supported socialism because he opposed the kind of bureacratic centralized planning inherent in capitalism, where a few major corporations plan how most of the economy is used. He writes: > The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? ==== Motion Picture Ass. of America makes ass of itself | Caught pirating DVD (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/11i5/comments/c01248 It's not clear they didn't break the law. It might be permitted under fair use, but that's definitely not assured (and certainly not true under the MPAA's preferred version of fair use). ==== I Don't Support the Troops (score: -8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10u7/comments/c119m Actually, most people in the military are told that they're going to be spending time doing stuff like flying watch over their country, not flying to another continent to drop bombs as part of taking over someone else's country. ==== The Road to Serfdom (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zll/comments/c10be The real problem is how people don't realize that "liberty" includes government liberty. The cost in terms of liberty of rules such as the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment is a lot greater than people realize. ==== The Road to Serfdom (score: -12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zll/comments/czze It's funny how obviously absurd this book is when all the verbiage is stripped away. oh noe! teh market regulations will lead to fascism!! ==== Why We Fight - When war becomes that profitable you are going to see more of it (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xxp/comments/cys3 > This movie has been widely panned Thanks to the magic of the Internet, we can now see whether this is actually true. Metacritic lists 14 reviews, which break down largely among political lines: the right-wing New York Post and Wall Street Journal panned the film, the centrist New Yorker and New York Times gave it moderate reviews, and everyone else (11 outlets from the Christian Science Monitor to Entertainment Weekly) rated it favorably. So overall, it's been praised, not panned. ==== Why We Fight - When war becomes that profitable you are going to see more of it (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xxp/comments/cyry Or: http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=689 ==== What reddit.com needs... my 2 cents... (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/yeo/comments/cyh6 Well, I thought it was a good idea... ==== Feds after Google data (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/uvr/comments/cvkz The Patriot Act allows for a strict gag order against anyone who is providing information. This is one reason it's so hard to fight: you can't exactly call up the ACLU, because that'd violate the gag. ==== Reuters: US has secret torture unit where soldiers adopt fake names (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27393/comments/c6501 It's not plagiarism -- it's a full copy with attribution. I linked to the blog post because it's not covered in disgusting ads like the one you refer to. You know, Reuters is a wire service, after all. ==== Watch the Artist Draw a Woman From the Inside Out! (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27136/comments/c6065 [note: the title used to be "WATCH THE ARTIST DRAW A WOMAN FROM THE INSIDE OUT!" (which explains some of the jokes here)] ==== Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror' (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27024/comments/c5861 I like his previous formulation better: > The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening. ==== Chomsky on "Intellectual Property (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/26539/comments/c5587 It's pretty obviously Chomsky -- if you want detailed sources, he covers many of the same things in print. ==== Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. government (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/26558/comments/c5297 Has Capitol Hill Blue ever been right? They have a pretty terrible reputation. ==== Ask reddit: Which text editor are you using for programming work? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/26041/comments/c4888 TextMate is not only the best editor I've ever used; it's also one of the best applications I've used. It's rare that an application is so clean and well-designed and updated so frequently and has so many nice hidden features that it continually gives me joy. ==== Eccentric millionaire Sharon Tendler marries dolphin (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/24959/comments/c4663 I think we may be an endangered species, scylla. ==== Penn and Teller explain PETA's Bullshit (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/24260/comments/c3851 One of the major problems with Penn and Teller's show is that they're more interested in making fun of the other side than actually understanding it. PETA doesn't even get a chance to explain their position before it's held up for ridicule. Even so, it's clear they have a rather serious one -- where's the moral difference between hurting people and hurting animals? Penn and Teller argue it's OK to hurt animals if it helps us. For example, they say we need to test on animals so we can get better medicine. In reality, PETA is not in favor of banning medical testing -- they merely suggest that try to use new non-animal technology (like computer simulations and human culture testing) whenever possible and try to "reduce the number of animals used and to minimize pain and distress" when it's not. Of course, that's a position that requires thinking a little bit to discuss. It's much more fun to call people Nazis. ==== Penn and Teller explain PETA's Bullshit (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/24260/comments/c3850 I've seen them. They're not any better. ==== The World's Smallest Political Hook: how the political quiz is religious evangelism (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/24159/comments/c3759 What non-religious group of evangelists "put out questionaires with leading questions that try to get you to conclude you're a special sort of person and they can help you if you join"? (Furthermore, you missed my point -- I wasn't asserting that the quiz was religious myself, I was quoting someone else.) This is probably not the best forum for discussing my article. However, nothing in the piece claims that economies are unknowable. And any religious person would sometimes "admit [God] fails, and a [human] solution must be implemented". My claim is simply that mandatory economic education should be resisted for the same reason mandatory religious education should -- because it's factually baseless and politically harmful. ==== The World's Smallest Political Hook: how the political quiz is religious evangelism (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/24159/comments/c3684 Do you know anything about polling? People's responses on these questions are highly contigent on how things are worded. ==== The World's Smallest Political Hook: how the political quiz is religious evangelism (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/24159/comments/c3682 I was summarizing the article ("I'm not the first observer to compare the Nolan quiz with religious evangelism. The comparison is hard to avoid!") Do you understand the concept of an analogy? When someone says "these poll numbers are as shaky as cafeteria jello", they do not mean that polling is related to jello. They are trying to use ideas from one to describe another. So, in this particular instance, religions (and cults) often put out questionaires with leading questions that try to get you to conclude you're a special sort of person and they can help you if you join. And for the case of economics, I was saying that they were both irrational systems of belief in some form of "higher power". ==== Reddit 2.0 mockup (a joke I think) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23705/comments/c3444 I'd say it's one of the discussed early submissions on reddit. At least in Cambridge... ==== web.py released - reddit.com web framework (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23222/comments/c3192 Probably not, but I think it will always be a single namespace (that is, accessible by doing web.foo instead of web.bar.foo). ==== web.py released - reddit.com web framework (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23222/comments/c3110 I didn't "choose" PostgreSQL, although reddit runs on it. But infogami currently runs on MySQL and web.py will support both as soon as I get a spare moment. ==== Segway Inventor Drinks His Own Pee (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/19619/comments/c1081 It uses a stirling engine. ==== Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/19724/comments/c1065 This study is completely bogus. I wrote a long piece debunking it when a draft was circulated. But FAIR manages to make all the important criticisms in much less space: Rube Goldberg, media critic > [FAIR's] survey once again found that the right receives about half of all think-tank citations, and that the center-to-right spectrum dominates with a combined 84 percent of citations. Certainly little support can be found in the media’s use of think tanks for the notion of a “liberal bias.” > Not that some on the right aren’t willing to try. Academics Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo got considerable attention for a paper they wrote called “A Measure of Media Bias” (12/04), which deduced a “strong liberal bias” from an analysis of news outlets’ use of “think tanks.” (The groups the study looks at are actually a combination of think tanks and advocacy groups.) > The report used a peculiar Rube Goldberg–like method to calculate media bias from think tank citations: Taking the Americans for Democratic Action ratings of congressional voting records as its yardstick, it assumed that media outlets have ideologies similar to those of members of Congress who cited the same think tanks that the media outlets did. > This approach is based on the problematic notion that politicians cite the think tanks that they most agree with rather than the ones whose citation will be the most politically effective—a problem the researchers acknowledge when they attempt to explain away some curious anomalies that their method produces. (The National Rifle Association comes out as a centrist group; the Rand Corporation turns out to be left-leaning.) > If the authors truly wanted to rank media outlets on the ADA scale, the simpler method would be to look at the ADA ratings of congressmembers quoted by those news outlets. One suspects that the authors avoided this obvious approach because the results would have been less to their liking: Studies in Extra! have repeatedly found various media outlets quote Republicans more often than Democrats, by ratios ranging from 3 to 2 on NPR (5–6/04) to 3 to 1 on nightly network news (5–6/02) to a startling 5 to 1 on Fox News’ Special Report (7–8/04). Fox News, according to Groseclose and Milyo’s method, is a “centrist” news outlet. That an econometrics journal published this obviously wrong paper says a lot about the standards in the field. ==== 1963 children's book gets edited in 1991: No more brave heros and beautiful girls (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17962/comments/c128 The important thing about the page was, I think, that it was no longer implicitly moralizing about coming down for breakfast promptly. The same thing happened with the dentist page. I'm all for less pro-parent propaganda in children's books. ==== British opposition politicians "best educated ever"? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18000/comments/c125 It's like my grandmother always used to tell me: If you're so smart, how come you're not elected? ==== Reddit now supports comments (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17913/comments/c123 Hopefully you can always get the kinds of stories you're interested in on the recommended page. ==== Illegal, immoral, and pointless: The New York Times on Torture (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17844/comments/c114 Are you sure they don't just get moved down? Comments are sorted by score. ==== Reddit now supports comments (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17913/comments/c82 It is a standard: Markdown. ==== US kidnaps wrong guy, dumps him in a forest in Albania (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17830/comments/c40 We didn't torture somebody! USA #1! ==== Illegal, immoral, and pointless: The New York Times on Torture (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17844/comments/c37 You can rank the comments and demote the moronicism. ==== Illegal, immoral, and pointless: The New York Times on Torture (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17844/comments/c35 Here's the copy published in the NYT. ==== Illegal, immoral, and pointless: The New York Times on Torture (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17844/comments/c33 It's a New York Times editorial that was also published in the IHT.