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Majority of average American citizens support their government's actions against Iraq/Syria/Libya/Vietnam/... . So in my book, they are also responsible.

> The Euro isn't a better vehicle than the USD today, but it could easily become one. Get back to me when Saudi Arabia starts selling oil exclusively in Euros, or better yet, once …

> Euro could easily become the new reserve currency. Surely you cannot be serious here. Europe is one (insert name)-exit away from total implosion. The Euro project was doomed from…

> war it's bad for business (in most cases, anyway). Most wars are great for business actually, even world wars! Let's not forget that WW2 was mostly responsible for dragging the U…

Profit.

"...while avoiding the kind of silly errors made by the LSTM based recurrent neural architectures." Only in arXiv you could get away with that kind of language :). Good paper thoug…

This problem starts from early childhood and is reflective of the utter failure of public schools in lower income districts. For too long we have used the band-aid of lowering stan…

Elizabeth Holmes did not happen in a vacuum of course. She is a by-product of a culture that idolizes youth, raw enthusiasm, and passion over experience and pragmatism. Socially sh…

Microsoft ruined Hotmail, JellyFish, Skype, LinkedIn, Yammer ... and now they want to ruin GitHub? :/ Noooooo

I'm not talking about email, IP address or any other convenient mode of identification. Think voting patterns, date/times active, submission categories, comments, writing style, pu…

Reddit has the illusion of anonymity which gives its users a false sense of privacy so they can act the way they truly are (parallels to Westworld if you watch the show). It would …

> Reddit works because it’s anonymous Are you sure there? Anonymity doesn't really exist anymore on the internet for the average person. Reddit has the illusion of anonymity which …

What is the problem with making games that appeal to a niche? I'd often find games that try to appeal to everybody end up pissing everyone off in the end.

> if I make some breakthrough making billions for my employer That is a completely hypothetical situation and always never happens in the real world. Billion dollar ideas take many…

> A great inventor can be turned into an absolute-minimum employee when given insufficient reward Absolutely true. > Even the article has a quote about it being not about the money…

That is what we have stock options for .. to align the best (longterm) interests of the company and the employees. It is much better vehicle to build value for both parties than a …

"no motivation among your employees to perform more than the absolute minimum work required to keep their job" There is a great body of research suggesting quite the opposite actua…

I am not suggesting that Toshiba (or other tech fossils) has the right culture when it comes to dealing with its engineering talent .. BUT .. If a company is de-risking the process…

Are you an Oscar winning actor?

Well I'm not running for a popularity contest. A players like to work with other A players. My jobs is to make sure we maintain that environment. If that means being very selective…

I'm not the hiring manager. We are a startup, we don't have any bureaucracy.

Yes and No. A great GH and SO reputation is something you build over a period of time. It shows passion and consistency. That's what separates people who love to code from the ones…

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Guys who are downvoting, please explain what is it about the post that you find objectionable. I am genuinely curious.