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Reminds me of the people who dehydrate to survive the chaotic eras in Three-Body Problem.

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Agreed but this wouldn't be the Internet if it wasn't critical about something, so that's just how it goes.

not reddit!

What losses are being socialized? This is a liquidity issue that is being reconciled with short term loans, not a solvency issue being bailed out with tax dollars.

Yes if there's a material chance that the last third of folks at the concert get torched in a fire.

Yes but certainly a good chunk of the companies finite resources will be shifted towards this effort vs improving upon search. No judgement whether this is good or bad, just... the…

If N95 masks have worked so well for you, why walk around angry at everyone else for choosing not to wear them? You're in for a long life of anger and resentment.

there's theory, and there's reality. As mostly engineers here we'd love to live in theory, but that's not how the world works.

what's crazy to me is how terrible of a track record big pharma has in being even moderately uncorrupted, and yet when it comes to vaccines, sprinkle in a bit of fear and suddenly …

i hate being the source person but that's a pretty grand hyperbolic statement lacking details... mind expanding beyond just an opinion?

anybody else feel like that marketing video was a let down?

Ya that could be, I'm in tech so I see it all day, but I tend to be [sometimes] pleasantly surprised at the libertarian ethos that still floats around Hn.. moreso than other platfo…

No it's not straightforward. This isn't a literal physical town square, obviously. This is a platform in which a major type of online discourse takes place that has carved a pretty…

Well one of the best predictors of the future is the past and he has a pretty incredible track record of both success and vision and staying true to that despite huge market/social…

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Does anybody downvoting want to add a reasoning? I guess most people didn't see how censorial the previous regime of Twitter became over time.

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But does controlling what everyone says on the Internet help or ultimately hurt? This seems to be the crux of so many problems.

Yep, because fear is the key to control and compliance. It's the oldest trick in the book. There has to be a kernel of truth in order to be effective.

It seems to me that many tech workers are experiencing, for the first time, the hard reality that: a) Companies may be formed, operated, and controlled by people, but they are comp…

tldr; You’re fired, we’re doing great thanks to cutting your cost, but stay strong in your job search during this recession like those who have been persecuted for the color of the…

related -- i was just looking at serenade.io and thinking to myself that aside from accessibility purposes, what developer wants to learn a new voice abstraction on top of their pr…

0) Macroeconomics is macro. Everything is connected. 1) we just came out of a very long period of "easy money" that inflated valuations and gave founders/boards a sense that money …