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Having read too much history for fun and jobs, the comment sounds wrong. You can go back to the Roman republic to find people concerned about this (Gracchi brothers).

This is a very HN way of looking at academia. The vast majority of academics aren't looking to be "public", they quietly do great work for decades, passing their knowledge down to …

This comes off as naive. I saw the domestic abuse allegations again him and decided to read up. He had multiple allegations from both exes. He lightly joked about rape, domestic ab…

How many people actually have the expertise to evalaute medical data like that? They don't. There's a very very small number of Hners that if they are honest with themselves are qu…

Ibn Khaldun

The article is making the point that we don[t actually have it superplushard as a generation. I work in tech, I have debt, I live frugally, and I've seen how easily it would be to …

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! I guess it's not surprising that one of Zuck's heroes growing up was the first Emp…

Zuck doesn't seem very self-aware. If you are in the middle of a massive scandals (multiple massive scandals) about major issues like privacy, enabling genocide in certain countrie…

They were ranting about the 4th estate...it is their job to cover stuff like this.

You ever heard of confirmation bias? Hey, they claim to have 1.8 billion users. If an entity is that large they naturally require more scrutiny. Give me a break. You act like they'…

You're not far off but the sad thing is that Hughes died 30 years later. He died due to malnutrition and for years his various control centers had run operations separate enough fr…