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Feel like sending an email to Jeff Bezos that just says ????

democracy dies because people couldn't be bothered with the "mundane technical details". its like this is a flaw of intelligent civilization that Carl Sagan didn't think about. it'…

to me it seems as though there is no precedent for it. Compare to IBM. IBM created the somewhat open "PC" platform in the 80s. Within ten years there were dozens, maybe hundreds, o…

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finance is a different culture than hackernews, and the people speak different languages with different philosophy and assumptions about the world. maybe this is not a technical is…

maybe if college campus tech leaders didnt ogle 19 year olds, there would be more women in tech.

wouldnt it be true that, basically, every boom bust cycle is "caused" in part by 'traditional' investments having low returns which makes investors look for something with higher r…

dear young people who are reading the above comment. IMHO dont be afraid to take it with a grain of salt. don't expect to be rewarded for saying no. don't expect a light feather ru…

then wouldn't we would be able to correlate rates of lower toxic behavior, like harassment and conflict, with the practice of 'cultural fit'? like doing some kind of empirical stud…

Every single sentence you wrote above is factually wrong, demonstrated not only by the study of the history of economics and society, but also empirically in something as simple as…

so i wonder if its like sports... they aren't paying for workers to be or stay healthy. like a football team, they are paying a handful of superstars until their bodies are used up…

how important are the differences really? whether you are in a Chinese prison or a US prison does it really matter which injust, ridiculous, hypocritical system put you there? does…

That doesn't make me trust them or their software / electrical team. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-fi-toyota-prius-i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barr_(sof…

my other question is has anyone ever tried to find this with rational points only

my question is can you get similar results by doing a physical simulation of charges repelling each other