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More rich women and rich black people joining the VC network would not solve the problem. And yet that's the conclusion this thinking leads to. It's the author's solution as well a…

Her experience is the same. Zero funding is zero funding. Your experience cannot be worse than "received no money" when it comes to raising money. It is a binary outcome. She's rec…

Many white male founders have had the exact same story with VCs. If they were black or women they might have assumed it was a matter of VCs being racist or sexist. But this is prob…

That number is wildly inaccurate but even so, it's no doubt very different from the bad old days: Certain private universities, most notably Harvard, introduced policies which effe…

In the past, I've always thought it was reasonable that the corp I work for have spyware on their laptop. It is theirs after all. But, now that it lives in my house, my thinking ha…

Remember that it is not "your" team but that you are just a member of the team, in good standing, with the relevant experience, that is volunteering to take on some additional resp…

Reforming the H-1B to do what it was intended to do would mean eliminating 99% of the visas that are granted. It turns out that the entire H-1B program has been a massive scam. It …

Yes, the author pointed out their other mistakes. But the author seemed to have missed this important mistake completely. I "ignored" nothing. I explained the mistake for their ben…

The author seems to have missed the true root cause here here. Which was exposing VNC and NoMachine to the internet in the first place. These services should have been accessed thr…

Police are doing a very different job than any other service worker likely to interact with a dog (as I explained in the other comment). The general public has very little interact…

There is no equivalence between a meter reader and a police officer's situation. Some subset of police interactions may be similar but many will be very different. A police officer…

I think police should have better procedures in place to try to prevent shooting dogs. It definitely happens more than it should. That said, bites are incredibly dangerous and not …

That is cool but now you're relying on some random third-party app developer for your security/privacy. Even if they're good people, there's nothing to stop them from selling it to…

I'd recommend you abandon this idea. What attracts most people to YC is money, connections, and advice. It doesn't sound like you're in a position to offer these things. If you nee…

"You can write Rust shockingly similar to Go." This applies in any case where one language is more complex than another. You can write almost any style of any language in C++, for …

It's not any particular feature that makes a language a mess. It's the interaction between the features. It's a bit like mixing paint, it's very easy to end up with greyish poop. G…

This is the main issue I have with app security. It would be great if one could deny network access to apps. I would be much more willing to install many apps if I knew they would …

They started a fire through mild negligence, denied the fire existed, and only put out the fire when the entire neighborhood started yelling. It was a forgivable-but-negligent deci…

The only problem I have with this extremist campaign is that it's about controlling other people. Disagreeing with their narrative publicly means risking their attempt at cancellin…

Exactly. Just because someone claims something is anti-racist doesn't make it so. Almost all organized evil is done in the name of something good. Look at how laws like the The Pat…

The public square is owned by private companies and they're enforcing anti-first amendment principles. One can't even argue that these banned people can move to another platform if…

American universities sell out their limit capacities to foreign students for huge amounts of money. This forces out huge numbers of American students from attaining the educations…

Since I'm disagreeing with the majority here: I have nothing but love and respect for people of all countries. I also happen to disagree with the groupthink on the H1B for reasons …

It's actually very insidious the way HN (and Reddit) control what we see though. There is almost no transparency, accountability, or oversight. Moderators make mistakes and we neve…