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That makes no sense for a satellite in orbit around the earth outside of the atmosphere. It would never point at the sun. The only issue is that the earth would periodically occlud…

The Hubble telescope is not a deep space probe being so close to earth and doesn't use the Deep Space Network to communicate.

I keep reading it as Recluse Center...

Or University of Waterloo

The right solution would be to get women interested in technology from an early age, not by raising the numbers artificially by creating a sexist scholarship.

It's the original role and the most important one. However it has evolved into more roles, obviously. Regarding your second point, the assumption is that the government is rational…

OK, looks like we need to look at it from another level. Once upon a time there was a group of people. They had common interests, but it was hard and inefficient to make decisions …

Not quite the same thing, is it? We are comparing huge monopolistic corporations who use an anti-competitive, anti-capitalist technique with selling a primitive mechanical device t…

Are you saying that there is usually no government interference in private contracts? Or that there should be no government interference just when the consumers rights are being vi…

Nice petition, but it didn't go far enough. Why should locking phones be legal at all?

Luma Camera, Palo Alto, CA - Backend developer? Help Luma (YC W12) scale its HD video sharing service We're developing software to make it easy for consumers to record and share gr…

1. How can they have very high standards if they cheat? Stress is no excuse for cheating, spend less time getting drunk. 2. It's always mentioned that cheating is not acceptable at…