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Phrases like "need to be called out" are not markers of incivility at all. You just made that up with no basis whatsoever. Looks like the HN mods are also part of the problem. Plea…

And there we go again. 'optional activity'. And people wonder why there are few women in tech and the situation is not improving. The post above is your answer. Have a family, it's…

I was not uncivil. This kind of belittling of family has to stop. Software development has a major problem hiring women, older people, and minorities. People in the sector belittli…

I would suggest that he observed reality.

Children are a life choice? You're part of the problem.

Ageism is so rife in the tech sector in the US that people don't even notice it because it's omnipresent. I would go so far as to say that in the Bay Area, actively discriminating …

There are vast amounts of land, even within American cities, that is very cheap. The amount of usable land for urban purposes might as well be infinite. Land is only expensive in a…

Which kind of cable? If it's micro USB, they're designed to fail under low amounts of stress (thus sparing the much more difficult to replace port). Unless handled with kid gloves,…

Waste-of-time advertisement posing as article is waste-of-time.

Nope, definitely systemic within the company. The engine is a system that must meet certain requirements. The standard way of meeting those requirements is to have a urea injection…

Overly loose credit, the decisions of companies to centralize, and NIMBYism is driving up the cost of pretty much everything. People just move to where the work is. I have coworker…

"at least I didn't move here from California" Yup. You being born in a state that is not California and moving to Portland makes you very superior to those living in Portland but b…

What line? It's so bloody arbitrary as to be a useless guideline. It's about as meaningful as 'be nice'.

Rah Rah Rah! If your startup is not winning, just pivot, and be positive enough, and you will inevitably win. Selection bias doesn't exist and was made up by negative Nancys. Serio…

"Juden werden hier nicht bedient" There have been very large wars fought over this. Be careful what you wish for. The right to be a bigot, and to have one's bigotry projected by a …

You keep saying this over and over... that they are not 'new', or that they are 'mundane'. I don't see a whole lot of explanation from you as to how they are wrong. Edit: as for yo…

"a deeper analysis of the sort you aren't going to get from Cook" It's nice to see that you're now putting words into (or removing them from) people's mouths. How presumptuous.

Why does the argument have to be 'new' or 'deep'. Many of the best arguments are extremely old (perhaps timeless would be a better way of saying it), and are also very simple in th…

Did they? It's in their 'opinions' section; it's an op-ed. The headline is "Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous". I honestly don't know how a newspa…

On this one, I think both shard972 and gotothrowaway are both equally correct. Business isn't a monolithic entity, nor is the 'business community'. I'm not sure arguing down this l…

Wat? Tim Cook wrote it. He's a gay man. But apparently it's not Tim Cook who is using this as a 'rhetorical cudgel' (whatever that is). It's WaPo. I don't know what to make of this…

"This is bizarre. In what way does a 21st-century economy depend on inter-racial marriage? Am I too cynical for thinking this probably has more to do with PR and/or company morale?…

It's a technique that one uses to cut through with people who don't care about anything but the bottom line. Essentially, you say that first and foremost, it's bad for business. Pl…

I have found that simply using Firefox with third party cookies turned off, along with the PrivacyBadger plugin and no flash installation provides a pretty good experience, while m…