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The problem is so much bigger than that. Here in Edmonton, we have regular folks who campaign and crowd-source funding to install lights on bridges, buildings, just about anything …

Your post hits the nail on the head, but complicates things more than needed. The whole idea of "middle class" is a fiction that supports the behaviours discussed in the article. I…

> 3. Invented async/await, by far the most ergonomic concurrency primitive yet created. This feels like a bit of hyperbole. The actor model seems much more intuitive than async/awa…

What you describe sounds like a consequence of Erlang's dynamic type system, rather than its concurrency model. Besides, don't most languages have "opt-in" error handling? For exam…

The quantitative easing FUD on HN is getting pretty tiresome. It gets blamed for everything from VC subsidies to house prices and just about everything in between. All three rounds…

Don't forget another important point here: most lecturers at the post-secondary level are not teachers. That is, most of them have little to no formal training in how to educate ot…

The reason is that Oprah operates in what's called a "winner take all market". There are thousands of baristas, servers, and (probably) garbage collectors with failed dreams of sta…

"On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." ;)

Yeah, I have no idea. Just taking a guess at what the poster above was hinting at :)

> China creates their own debt free money as needed. The U.S government must borrow it. You ever notice how economic pundits have been predicting an economic crash in China for the…

Sounds like a reference to quantitative easing.

> You think the interest rates will rebound? It doesn't matter. If the bank pays you 10% on a savings account it's because inflation is high as well. In my opinion, bungie4 is givi…

> With software... when you write a program, the program is done. Most of your labor goes into R&D... Not by a long shot! The vast majority of the lifetime cost of software is in t…

This idea that local residents are more entitled to the street becomes problematic, though. I live in a high-rise condo on a busy arterial road in the city centre. Should my enjoym…

I think the idea is that capital gets broken up into smaller chunks. When we're talking about creating middle-class manufacturing jobs, you obviously need to build, say, a factory …

> Let's not forget the enormous in-built demand for fiat currencies via taxation. I understand that the whole libertarian-hipster-goldbug thing is in vogue right now, but what does…

> Work somewhere where software is the main product and not just a cost center. > Doing elegant things is very difficult... These are great! I would also add: be certain that the o…

You don't think advertisers want to market to children? I hope this was sarcasm and I'm just missing the joke. Have you walked down the cereal aisle in a grocery store?

Doesn't the word "cash" imply that the money is not invested? If they bought factories or something else productive, we'd usually refer to that as "capital".

You make a really good point. HN seems to venerate startups that fail, which isn't very different from defaulting on a loan (and in many cases these startups are defaulting on loan…

What a strange headline. In what way could anything about audio books be construed as a "reading trend"?

> ISPs won't sell information this granularly - not directly. That's not for certain. And anyway, what stops a purchaser of bulk data from reselling individual records as a value-a…

> programming is a profession We like to think that, but it's not really true. Professions tend to include some kind of guild, union, or association to represent the interests of p…

> Could it be that the distance between the top and bottom 20% is less in Canada You're just describing the results of inequality: two things are further apart than two other thing…

> basic income is actually just a continuation of the same inflationary alchemy This comes up in every BI thread, and I can't wrap my head around it. All the sensible proposals see…