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It's the pay, it's always the pay. If our salaries were closer to the U.S. this wouldn't be happening.

As a Canadian who travels to Europe about once per month I am very excited for this :D

Sites like this often go down when they reach the HN first page. I've naively deployed stuff on AWS free tier with no scaling or anything that's handled thousands of concurrent req…

This is epic, maybe it can help fix @dang's pagination problems :-)

I have had a lot of success cold emailing them after signup with something that's clearly not automated. Most people are surprisingly responsive.

Yeah! I think Rust is mature enough now that this isn't necessary from a novelty perspective. And it's not really an obscure language. "In Haskell" for eg is still warranted becaus…

Is it just me or is Heroku mostly dead now? Most people I know have given up on "PaaS" and gone back to plain EC2 etc. It's just not that hard to spin up an instance and deploy a r…

Big Pharma is a classic example of what happens with private enterprise becomes so powerful that "regulatory capture" occurs. They can charge what they like, and undertake other di…

UBI has always been a no-brainer. It's economically sound, the research is clear. But it's just not popular enough, because people are scared of the socialist undertones. Look at Y…

How does one possibly elicit causation versus correlation for something like this? There are so many possible variables that could explain the connection (risk-taking behaviour for…

If only the stakes were as low as the scroll lock key...

It's surprising how often "utterly useless" project turn into huge companies. I for one will keep pursuing them :D

In the majority of human evolution (I'm vegan, and doing just fine :))

All useful except butchering a hog - a human being does not need to eat hogs to survive and thrive.

It sounds like you're advocating drugs as a kind of shortcut to resetting the mind and noticing thoughts as passing arisings. Can you talk more about your experience with this?

> There may be statistical ways to factor out systemic racism. This kind of thinking is so prevalent in tech circles. As long as we keep expecting technical solutions to every soci…