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All multi level marketing companies are cultish by nature. Realities such as market saturation simply don't exist, you're just not working hard enough / recruiting hard enough. I s…

Except it's not one million USD. Also it's only open to citizens and residents of UAE.

The reason is cultural: on HN you are expected to know products by the name of their corporate entity.

Investors arrive at an amount based on their estimate of the company's value and the share of equity they receive in return for their investment. If the founders then get commitmen…

Whoa: "To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will the…

It's pleasing to me that writers like OP shed light on the folly of the personal productivity and efficiency arms race. Reminds me of the adage: "Don't just do something, sit there…

Ambitious undertaking, possibly transformational.

It makes a lot of sense in such organizations, as it satisfies the employees' need for close human relationships without compromising the company's paranoid culture. In this case--…

HN really needs a reply bot that links to the appropriate wikipedia article on logical fallacies.

> Horvath then told her partner, also a GitHub employee... Protip: don't dip your pen in the company ink.

Isn't it better to wait until all sides of the story have been told?

> The controversy calls to mind that of Adria Richards last year False.

Perfect! I hope ransom notes come back in style.

I don't think the food metaphor makes any of the issues easier to understand.

Motivational speaking.

Cool concept, but slightly confusing interface. When I type a different twitter handle it automatically updates below the generated tweet (rather then when I submit).

Their conclusion, while ingenuine, is not surprising. Since the Bancroft family sold the publication, the Wall Street Journal editorial board has become a propaganda mouthpiece for…

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This frozen yogurt shop has a really simple and straightforward onboarding technique.

There's no cultural significance, it's just (hetero) male bonding.