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I have nothing against you, and was unaware of the historical usage of the phrase rootless cosmopolitan. It's terrible that as you say your family has no country to go back to. I a…

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Yes, I am aware that these donations don't fund browser development, and that hucksters laundered the reputation of Firefox to take donations to advance their social causes instead…

Anything to avoid working on the browser itself. Very sad to see the decline of Mozilla and Firefox. I wonder if someone could fork it and take all the people from Mozilla who are …

While partially using annotations only allows you to eliminate /instances/ of bugs, if you completely apply the annotations then it can allow you to eliminate the entire class of b…

Why should taxpayers subsidize unsustainable prices for the restaurants/shops/services? If it's just left alone, the market will react to this. If a 1BR apt costs $2500/mo, then th…

Over the years, a common argument I've heard against the tactic of calling all kinds of right-leaning people Nazis and Racists was that one day we might really need to identify Rea…

I tried to think of a realistic scenario where someone would be inclined to fake the existence of a restaurant: to make real estate look more appealing? If a RE developer built a d…

> I also agree that there are differences between the behavior of men and women, on average. Isn't saying that a fire-able offense at Google? I hope YC is really sure that these ar…

The study doesn't control for companies are probably much more likely to have Diversity Programs if they are doing really well. Sounds like a study that finds people who buy Rolexe…

Being quiet to not irritate the 39.2% of their customers is plausible, but in the case of Musk and Kalanick they didn't stay quiet. They left, and stated publicly the reasons why t…

That's not the right comparison, statistically. You'd want to compare the number of police encounters vs the number of police encounters that result in death, broken down by race. …

> Obviously, people who leave these groups have decided that the liabilities of endorsing Trump outweigh all potential benefits. Obviously. The point of my OP was that there should…

If the meetings are done for optics and not productivity, why have Musk and Kalanick not mentioned that? Musk said he left on principle, and Kalanick said being on the council was …

A dichotomy: - executive power should be wielded (WITH | WITHOUT) input from leaders of the economy I'm not arguing that we should elect Trump. It's done. Now that he wields exec p…

The last bullet I could've better stated as "work together as much as possible to do what both parties believe is best for the country". I'm not saying the opposition party should …

If that's true, then why didn't Kalanick or Musk say that when they left? None of them said anything about it being for show/endorsement/photos.

> Saying you're 'fully against policy X' while cooperating with someone who is implementing policy X is a self-contradictory position. No it's not. The president has an enormous ju…

He sits at the table with Musk etc to work with them.

It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. No one is better off by sabotaging our economy except those who want to further their political careers by saying "I told you so" at …

These meetings should not have any cost to their reputation and for the most part they don't. No matter what you think of the President, it is unquestionably good for America for o…

Not sure if LTV for blue apron is in their IPO docs or not, but to put that number into perspective: their cheapest plan is $60 per week, so if they hold onto a customer for 6 mont…

Self-driving is an engineering problem so I think a good guess is that a strong engineering company will get it to market first: Google. If that happens, wouldn't Google just start…

Ironically the sister-post to your parent post complains about a vampire being killed in the 19th century, when it's the same mindset that caused that and that wants to crucify Kal…

The difference between Tesla and Google is that Tesla actually has to ship these cars to customers right now . Wouldn't LIDAR double the cost of a Tesla right now?