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Do you have any idea how much a marriage costs?

That's a valid point, but they are trying to incentivize behavior to fix the issue OP asks about, so it's probably a good thing overall (it's not a hoodie for 5-star reviews only).…

"The cuts amount to about 13 percent of SurveyMonkey’s workforce of about 750. The cuts were made primarily among the sales team devoted to SurveyMonkey for Business."

"Armed to the teeth" with rocks

Every relationship is engineered, one way or another.

If twitter goes full algo I will stop using it just like I did Facebook as soon as they stopped showing me everything in chronological order.

Yahoo is profitable, right? Am I missing something?

I should have said "alternative antibiotics"

Unfortunately many of the effects of humans are long-lasting. The elimination of buffalo, for instance, or the loss of most wolf populations in North America which lead to the expl…

- Antibiotic alternatives (we're going to need them fast) - As another poster mentioned, how do we suck the carbon from 150 years of burning fossil fuels out of our atmosphere? - C…

Did you completely miss the study he was talking about?

The bay area is an interesting example. Prices are skyrocketing from demand, but part of the reason why supply has been so slow is that demand has been so sudden. San Francisco has…

Look at the most basic need: food. Demand is relatively constant - you need enough to eat, and shouldn't eat too much (obviously in practice there is a certain amount of elasticity…

It is always ironic when the leisure class who have enough money to do as they wish from birth become very concerned that the poor simply aren't EARNING the right to eat, sleep, an…

Thank you for doing this. This is truly the kind of thing the tech industry needs to be doing in order to make a net positive impact on society and promote a more agile, results-ba…

But that's really the whole point of privilege - belonging to the group is enough to grant you the advantages of it. Period. It doesn't mean your life is great, it doesn't mean you…

It's relatively easy to quantify pay discrimination against various groups. Emotional pain and civil rights deprivation are harder to quantify, though.

People who want to move here (for opportunities or work) by definition do not have an established life here, are not part of our community, do not have family and friends they have…

Hasn't 'twenty-something', in the popular vernacular usage, already taken on the meaning of a distinct life phase (not quite adult, not still adolescent)?

This is great news for all of us in San Francisco

I assume you have the same problem with Tesla?

Of course it's not genetic, it's environmental.

yeah guys, Nestle just acquihired the U.S. Forest Service, what's the big deal?

It's insulting because it addresses its target audience as though they are children, as if they don't know how money works.