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I think the market of employee retention is ripe for disruption with innovations like these.

How could I not think of that! Hiring a kind of SJW-ey guy to write Rust docs is just a small step in the direction of clear-text passwords and the removal of HTTPS from Firefox. B…

Buildings take time to build, do I have to make that clear? Also, it's not about ethnic make up, it's about culture and identity. The neighborhood can go in a wildly different dire…

Old buildings have to be demolished and new ones built, which may not be in the range of the former tenants. Old residents have to leave either way, which is both the problem itsel…

Gentrification would still exist as the previous owners and renters would be forced to live in the perifery of their towns, as newcomers would settle in their neighborhoods.

Those would be chemical weapons. Those can't be used, because they are inhumane .

Can we use this as an excuse to drop Node.js, please? After all, Javascript was created by a homophobe. We should use a more minorities-friendly language and not encourage the use …

All the reflection and abuse of mixins are pretty worthy of hate.

Scale.

And why, even while being an atheist, would I accept utilitarianism over Jesus Christ in this case?

You've got it backwards. In the Glorious Hacker News Golden Age that people sometimes speak of, Hacker News tended to gravitate towards pure-market solutions, deny the existence or…

You must concede that they are particularly prevalent in this community, and that PG's essays are notorious for their abundance of footnotes. Oh, and they are used as a substitute …

Please read the Hacker News guidelines[0] to see why people write in such a manner[1], good sir[2] ! [0] Paul Graham did it [1] And everyone copied it here [2] It's also way easier…

Map and filter, of course; less syntactical noise, simple function semantics, and plenty of precedent and equivalents in all other languages.