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Well. That first video was terrifying. I'm too scared to click on the others.

Dystopian SaaS idea: Integrate facial recognition and Yelp reviews. If someone shows up who gave you a negative review, send a text to staff and/or deny sale at POS. Please, no one…

I left out a great deal of detail. We had documentation. We closely work with an HR lawyer, and consulted with her extensively about this individual long before firing him. We didn…

I’ve told this story before on these forums: I had a junior engineer once, a few years back, who could not take criticism. He would get flustered, angry, sarcastic. His work wasn’t…

I don’t understand the math you’re giving here.

I just read The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovitz. It’s an incredible book and talks at length about the issue in the article. A word about this: “What technology and trade have…

In MySQL, discovering the UNION hack a couple years ago was like a revelation. It’s something that I’ve since been preaching to everyone who’ll listen. It’s extremely common to wan…

I’m sure other commenters here will comment on the substance of what you wrote. I’ll, however, just toss a complement: You’re a fantastic writer. Pithy, funny, informative. Nice wo…

You’re totally right. I meant socialist in the same way that Bernie Sanders seems to use it, which I have trouble distinguishing from Warren’s states policies. (I do agree that the…

This was my experience as well. Started off as a libertarian. But then I started working, first in the lobbying industry, then in Silicon Valley. Meritocracy is not as good an idea…

I’ve seen a couple comments saying that it’s the non-SWE’s that are the liberal ones. That’s a very different experience than my own, and that of my friends. My experience: Designe…

I see no contradiction there. She’s fighting against the influence wielded by those at the very top of the ladder.

Do you have a source for the Zuckerberg quote?

How is it voting against their self interest?

This discussion and the original post has been what the United States government’s trade policy ought to be, not the morality of an individual’s purchasing choice (say, to buy a Ch…

In regards to swapping cell phone plans, sure: If a cell phone company were to die because too many of their customers switched to a better competitor, that would be difficult for …

There are more ways to measure the health of the American worker than the BLS' unemployment rate. What about other statistics? Things like like... - Wage growth over time - Health …

Yeah, this is another aspect of the debate I find myself challenging: Labor is different. Our human lives are different than a cell phone plan.

I'm sympathetic to that idea, to some extent. Foreign workers would indeed be happy to get a marginal increase in their income, even if those wages and working conditions are well …

The big question I’ve been struggling with in regards to the free trade debate is this: Is cheap labor a legitimate source of comparative advantage? I increasingly don’t think that…

The chilling effect that China is having in liberal democracies like ours is extremely disturbing. We need our governments to do something about this. If Chinese companies want to …

> Would we even realize their sentience (Minor nitpick, but I think you meant "sapience" rather than "sentience." Sentience is something that essentially all animals on this planet…

Reposting my comment from yet another HN post on these pretty mundane videos. Gofast is just a weather balloon. https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation…

Gofast is just a weather balloon. https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation is an artifact of the camera rotating on a gimbal. https://youtu.be/4X1PRDbti…

Oh I see! 1G from our reference frame! Fascinating! That’s a perspective I haven’t seen before, I didn’t realize that that’s what you meant. Indeed, it isn’t possible. We’d see the…