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Any current or planned VR features? Cheers

Society's only protagonist is the individual

I'd prefer a virgin birth, then selling the child a few years later

I stopped enjoying math for about this reason. My university tried to teach with proofs, which to me is about as far from an intuitive understanding as possible Looking for recomme…

It's pay to play

The value of a targeted ad is a lot higher than just +10%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Space_Launch_Compet... USA recently allowed it for their citizens

Self sufficient may not be enough either. A rebelling colony needs guns, not just food

Do you have a source on racial/class distribution for lgbt? Would be interested to see it

Or we rename JavaScript to RustScript and everyone will be forced to love it!

I graduated high school 5 years ago, and in that generation (of video game culture) our social game was League of Legends. Everyone was always online. Ya, we liked the game, some e…

Bay area traffic would see a decent improvement just by using more left turn yields at traffic lights

> People are there to voluntarily give help. They also get loads of really stupid questions and venting does help with keeping them providing help. Ha, imagine hearing this about v…

Yep. I saw a talk a while back about Uber sharding their caching layer by geohash

Yep. NASA has such high standards that it's hard to imagine a private company ever matching its engineering quality, after all why would they need to?

Should an infertile couple have a right to a surrogate mother

The Alexa bit really shows that processing speed or "cheapness" doesn't always matter. The VM in AWS that eventually does that hex addition could have done 10^N more of those same …

imo you also need dry land, for the tool-making flavor of intelligent life

There's a side-effect, however, that's being ignored. If US companies don't like/trust the talent coming out of US colleges, they should have a stake in improving those programs. B…

No, no, he sold to Facebook for a big exit

I just graduated, so I'm not dealing with constant internship interviews anymore, but at the time I absolutely hated it. My frustration isn't exactly like yours (my time is probabl…

That's a cool life journey

Moving from Canada to California did a lot to help my depression. It's hard to not feel good on a beautiful sunny day

> Besides who are we to decide for the Chinese what is best for them? That's exactly the issue people have. Censorship. No one should be deciding what others can search.