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No one has a right to be wealthy. Mark Zuckerberg and all of these other people are so narcissistic that not only do they believe they are entitled to their wealth, but they also h…

Reading the tweets from “Team you tube” — these companies should be prohibited from saying things that are obviously not true. “These decisions are made very carefully” or “our com…

I’d like to be contrarian here and suggest that if you happen to be possessed of a sudden impulse to buy something, but you can’t identify any particular thing that you need, consi…

What does it matter if they spend the money on drugs? Their lives suck. I can hardly blame them for wanting drugs and if it makes them more comfortable for a short period of time, …

Did he ever end up saying what his true motivation was for disparaging Linux?

I think that is well known amongst storage experts, though maybe not everyone who might be interested in using ZFS for storage in a professional or personal application. What I’m c…

Pre-holed jeans for instance are basically a way to make the garment more interesting and show some skin. Clothing is as much for self-decoration to attract mates as it is for prot…

What surprises me is that I don’t see any comments here from people lamenting that their business will be negatively affected by this. Surely there are founders or engineers on HN …

You will probably find that your corporate TLS MitM proxy excludes financial institutions so that employees can do their banking without any doubt that their own company would resp…

Shush, I want to see a YC25 auto insurance startup that uses a pile of overheated video cards as a crystal ball to make underwriting decisions.

> He refused to believe me and basically said "Well I'm not sure why I'm paying you if you can't even get a website to work." I would quit the moment I was spoken to in that way, i…

How many of the software engineers, project managers, and sparkle-shoe consultants from Deloitte are on Medicaid?

> It was on the table. I think this is a misconception. It is the responsibility of the general staff to have a plan for any eventuality. The existence of such a plan does not impl…

I imagine very few of the MS devs are using BeOS.

Easy, count running the report as an event.

I was wondering if the Supreme Court had legalized all drugs recently when they discovered that the executive branch agencies lack the power to create detailed regulations. Surely …

I think this is closer to what was intended: Molecules that appear blue must absorb very small amounts of energy, while reflecting high-energy blue light. Since assembling the mole…

Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.

> ("we had managers that were extremely good about work life balance" and "marathon not sprint" should tell you all you need to know.) That's how all jobs should be though. The onl…

Is registering as an adopter the only way to gain participation in their decision making process?

I wonder if that CEO was dropped on his head as a child or what else might have been wrong with him to have such a bizarrely spiteful attitude towards humans, and I would have aske…

> Boeings stock price is down 18% this month. I hear Warren Buffet’s voice over my shoulder telling me “Boeing stock is on sale .” Boeing is a huge defense contractor that is never…

Congress should also have the same medical insurance that someone on Medicare or Medicaid does. If the coverage isn’t adequate for a senator then it isn’t adequate for a poor or ag…

How could this possibly happen over a weekend when it takes Microsoft weeks and weeks to go from recruitment to hiring someone?