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I for one welcome Libra, but only for exactly one purpose. The next time governments bail out another bank, they should just hand them a zillions Libras and ask the banks to collec…

"Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321420

Your comments would actually make sense if, say, Microsoft wasn't simultaneously going after Android phone makers to impose an "Android tax" during that very same period [1]. This …

If Microsoft hadn't embraced open source around the time Satya Nadella took over, by now they would have probably imploded and become irrelevant (I mean in the sense of how Bing is…

So let us say I go to some page which lists some "potentially well off" folks, like this one: https://github.com/orgs/google/people or this: https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/peopl…

We should create a "privacy hall of shame" (I was tempted to call it the "privacy offender registry") and list the names of all the employees who work on these features, along with…

>>given the press and the way it's portrayed on HN You forgot to add the most important reason which should be at the beginning of that sentence - track record. And also, hiding im…

Ask them how they would invest their money if they suddenly became 100x richer, which for most people isn't something they can easily comprehend. If their answers veer towards thin…

>>similar level of prestige Assuming this isn't sarcasm, this is how the word prestige is defined - "denoting something that arouses widespread respect or admiration". Facebook lie…

Since no one else has asked yet: You seem like a nice guy who could probably get a job elsewhere easily. Why are you still at FB?

>>Contrast that with e.g. home internet, where in many parts of the US there's literally just a single company providing internet connectivity, a single ISP, and it's illegal to st…

Given that Microsoft now owns GitHub, I would add them into this list too. Also, perhaps some of the focus should also shift towards preventing such acquisitions (Google + YouTube,…

That's an overly simplistic analysis. >>If you owe them billions, it's their problem. It is also entirely possible that if the US decides to actually make this (say) China's proble…

Yes, you can have a scroll bar - but where do you set the minimum threshold for qualification? If I slap a search box in front of CommonCrawl, have I now created a search engine?

I can relate a funny story about this. A Microsoft employee I know very well used to work at Bing and then moved on to another organization within MSFT. He isn't a big fan of Googl…

Unlike, say, the design of an actual rocket ship (where it is perfectly OK to leave everything to the experts), the economy is the truest form of democracy - of the people, for the…

OK, sorry, now I understand. >>the underlying preference for current consumption has weakened substantially I have a feeling this is a rabbit hole I don't want to go down :-) - but…

Are we actually disagreeing? This seems to be a case of ambiguous terminology [1]. But either way, what you said here is exactly what governments want: >>being presented with optio…

When I see people defend negative interest rates, I am reminded of this saying by Orwell: "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man coul…

>>My inside-FAAMNG experience has been that most employees seem to be not interested in the politics and are primarily focused on doing good work In other words, you could end up h…

If you are going to go after Google, you really should do a much better job. And there are very good reasons to reduce Google's dominance, but this whiny approach isn't helping. 1 …

"Only thuggish regimes and failed dictatorships demand for things like removal of encryption."

Unfortunately, when it comes to leadership, the key word in that sentence is "believable" and not "lie". The vast majority of people are just waiting for someone to come and convin…

2009: Are you smart enough to be a Facebook engineer? 2019: Are you scummy enough to be a Facebook engineer?

This is how it went: Product Manager: And don't forget to add the word free into the copy Marketer: Make sure you A/B test bold text on some part of the sentence Copywriter: Prefac…