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You mean the incident where his copilot intentionally locked him out of the cockpit and crashed the plane into a mountain? Hardly seems like an indictment of locked doors to me.

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Sorry, it's just a fact about HN informed by visiting it daily for over 13 years.

That’s a good 75% of HN these days.

Anytime this topic comes up, this opinion is invariably at the top of the comments. However I've never seen a non-trivial application made this way. Mind sharing one? More than the…

Am I the victim of the algorithm? Because all I see on HN these days is people pessimistic about tech and society. The tenor here is overwhelmingly negative. Where are you seeing a…

> Democrats are screwed on economic messaging until they join Republicans in dropping neoliberalism. I disagree. What we're witnessing today is that while people are happy with man…

Clinton era consultants were the only ones saying the obvious: “it’s the economy stupid”. On the other hand it was the Obama era consultants who were fixated on the massive loser t…

It is undeniable that European countries police speech more heavily than the US does. They have laws on the books that plainly give them this power. They exercise this power quite …

Silenced as in, not given access to White House officials? Sorry but there is a difference between that and arresting people for things they say online. https://www.cbsnews.com/new…

I promise you, its not the "real estate lobbyists" who fought to block subsidized housing for teachers in the Sunset.

Five years ago, Guinness left the following note on their video of Ben Lee's performance: " It's worth noting that this is no longer a category that our records team monitor - the …

So you're suggesting there's some other viable model of egg production that would deliver eggs at 2021 prices? People want cheap eggs. Saying, "well if we just adopted a decentrali…

Different categories, yes. But mostly drugs. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gh5_2YgWoAABY-O?format=jpg&name=...

In obsidian I have a template to insert a timestamp. I have a "Work Log" file I refresh each month where I just jot down whatever with the timestamp. No further organization requir…

I’ll never understand this narrative. What product category has Apple missed or failed to execute well in since Jobs died? Do you think there’s an iPhone level hardware product out…

The resistance to socialized healthcare in America can be easily understood without resorting to bizarre strawmen about hating poor people. Healthcare is of course a huge part of o…

What are you arguing? That restaurants are getting squeezed by their suppliers? And btw Americans eat out more frequently now than just about any other time in history.

Advances are recouped from the sales of your albums or tickets. Assuming you’ve made a good faith effort to fulfill your obligations you don’t need to repay the advance or pay inte…

It’s astounding how often people conflate advances and loans when talking about the music industry. If anything it’s closer to seed capital than a loan.

So what are you saying? That deliberately misinterpreting and sensationalizing a clear statement is justified because of the size and success of OpenAI? There’s no good faith readi…

> In the US 1/4 of all US homes are owned by financial institutions. That is not true unless you consider having a mortgage equivalent to renting from a bank. What is true is that …