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"Helping people directly can be a noble thing. Forcing other people to do it with great inefficiency? Not so much." Just because scaling a process results in inefficiencies doesn't…

"donating $1.25 million is a lot more than speech" It's somewhat easy to argue that someone should not face professional repercussions for their support of a candidate. It's harder…

That's infuriating - is there some way we can contact the app review team to complain about their "final" decision?

This really sucks - just bought a copy of his MacOS app through his website to try and help compensate. At this point I'm starting to avoid buying software through the Mac App Stor…

That's what I thought as well, but watching some other videos on their site, they say the boost happens in "the last second" https://youtu.be/xYYTuZCjZcE?t=2m34s . Any sign of thru…

I've gotten that exact error - good to know what was going on :P

I'm sure this is not the intended use case, but considering the trouble I've had trying to use UPS/Fedex/USPS to print shipping labels for my personal use (many of the websites suc…

True - although I feel like every other job that deals with high stress situations finds other ways to give people that training. Also you can always drop out.

This is fascinating - I wonder what sort of information they're able (and interested) to communicate to each other - food? locations? types of food? captivity? That could become an…

Yeah, you're pretty much stuck. Come to think of it, there's no reason you should be. Asking someone to commit to something like military service before trying the (degrading) trai…

I'm not sure gitmo qualifies as humanitarian aid.

I don't think they should have said anything at all in this case, beyond their condolences. 1. Autopilot didn't cause the accident, but they're sort of making it sound like it did …

"He couldn't hold down a job and regularly missed appointments." I think this is part of the problem - right now in society, if you can't be on time and hold down a job, you'll go …

Are you saying that people commit crimes because they have too much time on their hands?

I'm not sure how you get from, "this is a difficult problem that won't be solved soon", to, "throwing money at this problem is pointless". It seems like the best way to solve probl…

Agreed. I'd also say if people are using them to discriminate on race, they shouldn't allow the hosts to see profile pictures of prospective renters.

Interesting idea, but it feels a bit like "how to use the stock market instead of a bank account". The author mentions fluctuations but seems to think bank fees would be more of an…

Good question - Elon tweeted this https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/728459808270000128 - sounds like they could end up with a backlog ;)

"but when we dug into the data we found that the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups." Examining the data, we found that there were…

Yeah, I feel like going and redesigning parts of the system that are usually other peoples' area would result in some interpersonal problems at the least. I'm sure the dev ops peop…

As one of these problem people myself, it's helpful to know that this is considered bad behavior. I'm not sure it should be though... The thought process is that many times the bar…

If you're curious what the hoax post was (the answers have since been merged onto a different question) - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6y3HTYv...

> Or if you are outside for a long time in the cold with no jacket, upon feeling very cold, you don’t say that you have "a coldness disorder". A better example for anxiety or depre…

To me it sounds like it's coming from someone who has had to use JIRA in the past. Harsh, but personally I can relate to all of it.