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It's actually rare for someone to evict the other, since it's entirely illegal and usually undesired by the evictee. If the separation is very much ill-willed, the person who wants the divorce usually leaves (often as a surprise).

Comment · 14 years ago

Compared to "X-30 years", for all values of X, when the speaker is over 30, or quoting someone who is.

Comment · 14 years ago

> Disclaimer: Not from the US, but married (~2 years~) and kid (~2 weeks~):

You have more important things to be doing right now than hang out on HN. Take care of your baby, take care of your wife, and sleep when you have a moment off from those.

Comment · 14 years ago

> Companionship and love have nothing to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government.

Commitment and accountability to the person how bears your children, or who supports you through medical school or your startup years, has everything to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government.

Comment · 14 years ago

Yeah, Google would never ship software where "Password is stored on disk in plain text" https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809#c48

Comment · 14 years ago

Interesting to read your comment and dmoy's.

On the one hand, compared to Amazon.com, Taobao sounds like a horrible shopping experience. On the other hand, compared to a shuk (or whatever the Chinese equivalent is), it is a vast improvement.

Context is everything.

Comment · 14 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ndLGhffwE

Comment · 14 years ago

Supporters of the other team are far away and have discounted relevance to your life.

Comment · 14 years ago

You are pushing a bit hard there. What is point of having a lasting impact? So that people can can life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Happy kids does not equal good aid? Really?

Comment · 14 years ago

I watched this last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj__w87vkow&feature=plcp

"Social Mechanics: Bonding, Gratitude and Karma (Earthlings 101, Episode 7) "

Poor people are karma producers. Rich people are karma consumers. Rich people buy karma from poor people to make themselves feel better.

The whole Zog series is a fun (if a bit hard-line) presentation of evolutionary bio theory, in animated form.

Comment · 14 years ago

If only there were a way to obscure the Kinect's ability to measure the room.

Comment · 14 years ago

That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.