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I totally agree. The internet is where people live now and there is no "commons", no "public square". This is where people get so irritated with private companies that own all the …

Until companies start having longer exercise periods after employment ends, options have close to no value.

do you know the long term success rate though? I've lost over 50 pounds and kept it off for a couple of years, but my body eventually went back to it's normal weight.

The problem is, that's 98% of coders that you've described.

Isn't existentialism the cure for nihilism? It doesn't matter to the universe, but it matters to ME. I exist. From this we are left with the heavy burden of deciding what we think …

I disagree that copyright is a natural right. It is a right that societies bestow to creators to incentive them to create. It has not valid purpose beyond that and is quite unnatur…

It sounds like you are coming from a place of extreme privilege. Many many many people have terrible parents.

It turns out there are degrees of PTSD, it's not binary. http://advocatingopportunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/...

You have no idea what you are talking about and are projecting your own life experience on the many people who have actually experienced trauma.It's not something that can't be mea…

If the engineer who wrote the code understood the problem well and was a decent engineer, then the code will be maintainable no matter what the language is. Understanding the probl…

Why is this better than neovim? How many modern "vi"s do we need?

Tubing is a Python I/O library. I've been using it for batch data transformation tasks at Embedly. It's still early and things can still change, but it's starting to stabilize. Tel…

I would expect as more of the world becomes automated and work becomes easier, we would see more economic growth.

You're right. It's just one categorization of many. I might have more in common with a person who grew up in the same socioeconomic situation as me, but is separated by 30 years, t…

"we live in a free market society" "AH! GOVERNMENT! PLEASE SAVE ME!!!" cognitive dissonance is high in that post

"The wealthy working people have earned their right to live in the city. They went out, got an education, work hard, and earned it. I shouldn’t have to worry about being accosted."…

I'm 38. I can relate to millennials, but I'm not one. I know many people my age that can't relate at all.

We should create a place were we can put them all so we don't have to see them! Let's call it, a ghetto!

Listen man, I'm just delivery the news, not defending it. The question was how do people think about it, and that's how they think about it.

Many Americans believe in following the law no matter what. Snowden broke the law. Gun owners are trying to prevent the law from changing.