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Interesting, if one of humanity's failures (climate change) mitigates another (lack of pandemic preparedness)

Some great quotes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3624652/The-30-best-... To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U…

Rumble young man, rumble. Rumble in peace now ..

I suppose at some level how good of a Googler you are affects how well of whatever you want to be good at .. So you might say being a good Googler is part of being a good developer…

One of the greatest (and nicest) guys around. Best of luck Garry!

"The idea is credited to a Greek citizen , Marcel Mitzakis, who devised the system for the de Thoren Syndicate in the 1930s; they were advised by J F C Fuller." https://en.wikipedi…

Whether you view a new fangled technology as "magic" depends on if you understand how it works. Scientists in the 1800s knew much about electricity, combustion, etc well before a "…

If it's any consolation, they were "normal people" before they became insanely wealthy. If anything, that's the point of YC .. to give "normal people" with intellect, determination…

You say "over-react", but in many ways the reaction is quite rational. When an airplane crashes, hundreds of people die. We are reacting not just to our fear of dying in a crash, b…

I generally agree w/you .. I was referring to the professor who was interviewed, not HN users. I would say that the drug war component of mass-incarceration seems separable, and ea…

The problem with the article is that the professor doesn't just argue the points you made, but suggests we shouldn't advocate for ending the drug war or reducing sentencing: But ac…

I disagree w/your latter assertion: the interviewee basically claimed that ending the war on drugs would, at most , reduce the prison population by 17%. When you have a truly compl…

There seem to be many flaws, but rather than go through them now, I'll assume that only 20% of incarceration is drug-war based. Great , that means if we end the drug war, we'd get …

Well you could add in alumni then. All I'm saying is that measuring performance is not that hard a thing to do.

Trump's position paper on immigration is by and large an appeal to the worst nativist sentiments lurking across the political spectrum [1]. Read on balance it is a call to end the …

They all count, as do test scores .

You can factor in the opinions of parents, students, fellow teachers, admin, as well as test score improvements, college admissions etc. I think you underestimate the ability of st…

I don't think the money issue is a tough sell, if you can demonstrate high returns on the investment. As it is, the US spends more per student than everyone else, but gets mediocre…

"From everything I can tell, we would do well to give teachers massive salary increases, then make it hard to become a teacher and easy to fire bad ones. Then give the teachers hug…

Imagine if Hitler's worldview focused cultural rather than racial superiority .. we might all be speaking German.

Is it still at Coupa? I would love to try it.

Chill out .. there is nothing made by man that has a "zero-carbon footprint". Even if you don't burn fossil fuels, merely by breathing you release co2. This is a techcrunch PR laun…

"It is widely considered a war crime" Evidence? Whether allied strategic bombing of Germany/Japan was a "war crime" is partly a legal / technical question: https://en.wikipedia.org…

What do you consider "real" physics? Dark matter is not some voodoo word, it's part of the standard model of cosmology. While we know it exists, we don't know how it works, and the…

Which two are you referring to? The first separatist movement of course was the demand for Pakistan prior to independence. Then there was the demand for Bangladesh in East Pakistan…