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no. use of his clips probably isnt transformative enough.

Typography doesn't feel like a moat to me. If a competitor offered better service than AirBnB, nobody would stick around solely because of the typeface. Best you can say is, good d…

More like: validate that they are good at lying

Not a developer, but laughing at this statement: > Public personas are a professional necessity, especially in our industry If I wasn't on hacker news, I would assume you were an a…

If I'm not mistaken, car makers first lobbied to outlaw jaywalking. So if it's anything like the past, protesting self-driving cars and protesting the laws will amount to the same …

Jokes may be fun to write. But when you're scouring a manual for a needed function, and you're confronted with a smarmy joke, it probably won't be as fun (especially if you're read…

This isn't an easter egg, nor a comment in the code. It's dab smack in the manual. Could distract or confuse someone just trying to look up a function. I say we keep the fun expres…

I'm not offended by the joke at all. I'm pro choice. But I think it's unprofessional to have these kinds of jokes in an important piece of software. This sort of thing just hurts t…

Came here to complain about the drinking. When I worked for a startup, they had days where the company bought people beer. - I don't drink, but I felt pressure to do it anyway, so …

This is the 3rd article I've seen like this today. I think what's missing from the conversation is bonding vs bridging social capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital#…

Just quit today! For numerous reasons. Not just this. Do you need another reason?

Can't we agree that both are scary? You can live without both.

> I don't get what changed? Momentum. Sometimes people won't do stuff unless they know everyone else is too. If you quit Facebook and your friends still use it, you're missing out.…

> I for one am grateful that these services target me with relevant adds. Is that something we want undo? That's what you're giving up your privacy for. So you see more ads that re…

> more terrifying than some trained and experience arbitrator with respectable work history, to me. Roy Moore was a judge. Think of that. Ousted from the bench, twice, for defying …

Another reason for this may be that skilled people know enough to ignore marketing claims. Let's take guitars. You can get a squire (introductory model), a Fender made in Mexico (i…

No but who's going to fund the non-commercial streaming videos? Public (in the American sense, viewer supported) broadcasting like NPR and PBS develop excellent digital content tha…