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> What an incredible, amazing experience. You realize you can do everything you said, without living in someone's closet, in 99% of the world, right? YC is making billions and thei…

> Defending against that is costly. Costly, yes. But do those costs out-weigh the immediate benefits of slave ownership? Probably not. I have a hard time thinking slave-owners were…

> during which she run the company into the ground. That might be an exaggeration, but yeah. It's hard to fathom that someone could sock away enough wealth to last generations for …

> Surely you jest. As the parent noted, such reasoning is squarely on the path to insanity. What's insane is people comparing the government drugging us to equalize our IQ to the e…

> Yes, but deaf people are always at a disadvantage. I agree. > The law cannot eliminate that. All it can do is make reasonable compromises to mitigate it. I also agree with this. …

> The deaf are already at a measurable disadvantage. They're deaf. We should take steps to mitigate that. Which is why we're not trying to cure their deafness. Instead, we're tryin…

> How is this a good thing? If I'm deaf, I know that you have no advantage over me merely because you can hear. I think that's "good". The laws are in place to protect minorities.

> How is society improved by taking them down? First of all, I agree with you. I think most others do as well. The problem is, we can look at a case like this and say, "Obviously w…

> Going into debt to vacation in the Caribbean (which is what he did) is not the same as using it to say start a business or get an education. They differ only if the metric you ch…

> Tesla's YTD return more than matches the overall market What is so significant about YTD? You can arrange the data in any number of ways to tell a story: A Tesla investment since…

> probably much smarter to distribute their lender among multiple entities than one giant bank that would have leverage on them. A less charitable reading is that no single lender …

> "Surely you understand this?" It's my whole point. Being a "content creator" is irrelevant, and not deserving of making money. Billions of people are creating content all day, ev…

Right out of the Tesla Playbook: Make an announcement ("Model Y!") then raise cash. It's a surprisingly small amount, which makes me think they couldn't get the terms they wanted/n…

> How would you solve this? Paywalls for everything? Sure, why not. I don't care. I have zero problem finding content I want via a variety of methods, free and paid. I have more co…

> It's ignorant, insulting comments like this that give programmers a bad name among artists. Please stop. Do you think you deserve to be paid for this comment? No? Then what are y…

> Social psychologist Amy Cuddy talks about “high power poses.” Oh, right, the works that can't be replicated: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

> Do you expect content producers to get paid? Expect? No. "Producing content" isn't difficult, nor is anyone entitled to profit from it.

> What it does have is market power in the seed market for certain key global crops, and even more in the GM sector (e.g., 80%+ for GM corn, 90%+ for GM soy. Fortunately, we don't …

> This is the real story - Monsanto interfering with our ability to find out what is safe. The real story, to me, are the academics willing to sign their name to research they didn…

> Was he emotionally hurt by clever women lying to him? Or did he just cut-and-dry accept patriarchic notions of women as lesser beings who can't achieve the same standards of inte…

> Now I sit back and check gumroad a couple times a day; I average $800 in sales per day This is great, but it's also a single anecdote. Clearly there are people for whom it works …

> ""A senior executive with Qatar’s TV network Al Jazeera was closely involved with setting up the London news website Middle East Eye, some of whose staff have links to organisati…

> TFW you're voted down immediately for calling out sexism which, though very explicit, has so far gone uncommented upon What reaction were you hoping for? That we'd refuse to read…

Everytime there is some negative news, out comes a random Tesla announcement. How about some Model 3 details, as opposed to pipe dreams that may or may not appear on some random, f…