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What’s the hacker news angle on this article? I was happy to discuss it on other sites this morning, but it seems like a purely political article without any unique appeal to Hacke…

I think most users would agree that HN hosts a variety of perspectives and is not a monoculture on most issues, including this one.

I believe most of the major (and some of the minor) newspapers offer a SecureDrop instance to transfer confidential information. So I would send the entirety of the information to …

Is this a bit? It's not clear to me that free software is any more essential to a free society than libraries are. Which is to say, it's a clear public good but that's not a compel…

I’m not the grandparent commenter, but my total compensation this year is roughly the same, so I thought I’d chime in with my savings: $28.6k - 401k contributions & match $112k - R…

You'd also have to go by a pseudonym or a perspective partner might google you and ruin the whole charade. At that point your behavior is fairly duplicitous, which is hardly a soli…

We don't have any indication that the OP took any form of flight to get to the coral. There is not enough detail within that post to shame them for their carbon footprint, and such…

edit: and for the record, I'm one of those "new grads" making a self-admittedly absurd amount of money for what honestly amounts to a relatively meaningless contribution to society…

I see. I saw somewhere else in the thread that you yourself are a new grad, so I'll chalk this up to lack of experience but on sufficiently large products it is trivial to make inc…

22 and 23 year olds making $200k+ a year? For doing what, exactly? Contributing 0.001% of the codebase to an app that sells advertisements? It may not have been your intent, but yo…

These salaries don't come from thin air, they're constrained by the market rate at which engineers can be hired and retained. It's unfairly reductive to say that the engineers aren…

I love this question. The information density and longevity of old forums is hard to replicate on Reddit, Discord, or Facebook groups. I’ve been spending a lot of time over at http…

This isn't representative of my personal experience nor my peer/friend groups' in tech. Anecdata: of the ~5 senior engineer friends I have at large tech companies only one of them …

It's a shame when the crowd noise overwhelms the system at Shiru. I've found that the sweet spot for dropping in to be around 2pm Sunday. Happy bartenders, quiet patrons, good musi…

You’ve gotten some pretty solid advice already, and echoing other comments it’s not a dumb question at all. From a software perspective I’d also recommend Ableton, it strikes a fan…

Here's another anecdote to help satiate your curiosity: I'm a 27 year old software developer, lifelong nerd and all around hacker, and I love FaceTime to the point where it's inclu…

Memphis Meats is one company I'm aware of that's working to commercialize cell cultured meats. I haven't really checked up on them since their demo day, but a cursory glance sugges…

I'm not trying to muddy the waters on this issue or take a consequentialist perspective, but how is this materially different from someone rejecting oxygen? The moral response seem…

Can you expand on this? I'm interpreting this to mean that in some countries opsec dictates that you eat at a different place every night? Why?

Perhaps the show is more of a hit with soviet geeks than Chernobyl geeks. I was thoroughly impressed with the level of detail in set dressing and by the costume department. This in…

We do see the explosion in episode 5, and in my opinion it's one of the low points of the limited series. IMO the generic CGI animation you feared is exactly how it comes across.

It's very possible that the parent commenter did just that. I know it's true in my case, as a CMU grad a plurality of my college friends moved to SF right after college. It was a n…

I'm not sure when you last checked, but you can add songs either next in the queue or at the end of the queue when shuffling songs. I've just tested this on iOS 12.2. While you can…

Is this sarcasm? I don’t understand the reason for this comment, would you mind expanding on it?