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Right, but one wonders why the parent commenter is not gleefully commenting about "fake news" on all of these articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=google+buys This seems to be a not…

I doubt you'd call it "fake news" if a corporate acquisition was announced, just because the deal hadn't yet passed regulatory approval. But then again, you clearly seem to have a …

Not everyone wants to go to a baseball game where 1% of the fans are constantly getting into screaming matches about the other team sucking. Similarly, I will politely nope out of …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29388310

Fair point; I will try and avoid using "females" in the future. FWIW, the main reason I used this phrasing was that I had already used the word "guys", but wanted to steer clear of…

> There was literally nothing wrong with the email There were at least two things wrong with the email, from my perspective as a guy who's been around plenty of benign bro culture.…

The next sentence in the article does a better job at illustrating his point: "Conversely, the vast majority of startup option packages end up being worth little to nothing, but ne…

Well, both Obama and Trump inherited a pretty broken TSA. That doesn't mean we shouldn't pay attention to whether the organization is improving or getting worse. Generally I doubt …

Yeah, that subreddit is terrifying. I'm more afraid of the people in there than any other terrorist group. E.g. another comment on the same thread says very matter-of-factly: "Let'…

Box has a negative P/E, so I'll assume you're talking about P/S here. You seem to be suggesting that companies within an industry should all have the same price-to-sales multiple. …