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I'm afraid the music may be slowly fading at this party, and the lights will soon be turned on. We may very well look back on the last couple years as the golden era of subsidized …

Hello whomever posted this! I am hoping you are interested in the pursuit of truth and would like to have a conversation with you about this article. I am hoping you can address th…

"The Telecommunications Act of 1996 fundamentally reshaped how wireless infrastructure is regulated in the U.S. by prioritizing rapid network expansion over local oversight. The Se…

Not sure if you read the last part: "...internally developed and maintained for a fraction of that cost over the products lifecycle." Now, imagining a lifecycle of this specific ap…

I work in senior IT leadership for a rapidly growing company (100MM -> 2B through M&A) and I'm curious about the experiences of different companies when it comes to the decision-ma…

A far more substantive reason for the prevalence of crime among adolescence and young adults can be attributed to fatherlessness (1)(2)(3)(4). (1) https://fathers.com/the-consequen…

Yes, of course I do, just like I believe that the Australia, like false equivalencies, don't exist.

I recognize the cynicism in my observation, but is it fully unmerited? I put the following prompt in GPT4: create a professional title and a click bait title for the following arti…

Good point. I'd say if you're tight on money I'm not sure a wall should be at the top of your to-buy list.

This feels a bit like diet clickbait... "use fewer bricks than a straight wall"* *A straight wall of the approximal strength and length of a wavy wall, not just length. My counter …

With the recent Elon interview where he stats that he's cut "about 80% of Twitter's staff" (1) I was curious about waste and unnecessary labor overhead in the tech industry. Anecdo…

While almost everyone seems to be fixated on various housing market minutia in justifiably passionate anger/frustration at the entire situation, very little attention is given to t…

One of the unique beauties of aging is getting to witness the rhyming of history. ~40 years ago it was roller skates ~30 years ago it was roller blades ~20 years ago it was roller …

Eternal K-Hole of the Spotless Mind | High Society - VICE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZxNLlkKGiI Timmy Davis is not an alcoholic. But like many twenty-something students, he's…

In October 1990, García, then a Tucson-based real estate developer pleaded guilty to a felony bank fraud charge for his role as a straw borrower in the collapse of Charles Keating'…

"From a rough calculation, the flash appeared to give off more light than 1,000 trillion suns." Can any space geeks chime in on this one? Does this mean the emission of light from …

Maybe someone can help illuminate a nagging question I've had for quite sometime around this whole FTX debacle: Practically every single VC seed round story I've heard from new/you…

I was being tongue-in-cheek, the "blame boomers" trope is pretty well worn and I was merely making fun of that.

My apologies I was not meaning to be flamebaity and actually put that "boomers ruin everything" in as a joke.

EDIT - My TL;DR is merely a cynical joke based on my experiences and conversations around the oft used scapegoat of all problems faced today. Please don't take it at face value. TL…

Anyone else around for the dot com bubble? Why does the current tech M&A scene feel so eerily similar? I recognize that inflation is quickly destroying the value of the dollar, but…

Hello HN! I've just started working at a large (~5000 employee) company in a senior IT management role and in the last two weeks there have been several mission critical issues tha…

HI HN! TL:DR - When did poor communication etiquette become normalized in American corporate culture? I re-entered the job market several months ago after not needing to touch my r…

"Take the money and run."