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LET'S ALL LISTEN TO WHAT THE WHITE MAN HAS TO SAY ABOUT RACISM, SEXISM, AND WHY TRUMP IS GREAT! Oh wait... only a fucking garbage person would write what Thompete wrote.

> If you don't want dissent, fine just admit it. That way at least you are being honest. Don't wrap your lack of political understanding into some claim of decency. Thank you for m…

Good news everybody. I found the one racist white guy on this site who doesn't give a single fuck about other people. j/k: Paul Graham supports Peter Thiel's vendetta against women…

Only on HN would somebody look at a site that gets 99% of their revenue from escort ads and claim it's something other than an escort ad site. Y'all are fucking dumb af.

Because he hadn't selected early access, dropbox just opted a few regular users into this. It's a pretty shitty thing to be mean to somebody for that, even if you'd been right; but…

This doesn't explain the consistently slow and unhelpful support function. For what it's worth, I stopped using or recommending Coinbase after issues being charged successfully, bu…

That's a really silly (and in my experience) inaccurate comment. I like schemas ... most of the time! I like Avro ... some of the time! And JSON some of the time. And I write mostl…

The money is going from some Americans to other Americans. There's also an ROI issue if we're all paying equally, but the recipients are chosen in a biased manner.

You're engaging in catastrophism. This isn't a big deal, and the most of the folks claiming otherwise are folks who hate the FDA and government in general, and are dishonestly pret…

Media embargos are bog standard, and have been for ages.

Let's be honest about this. Dropbox has always been awful with security. They used to flat out lie about encryption (pretending they encrypted server side, when they weren't at all…

It took them _years_ to realize there'd been a breach, even though lots of users were noting that one must have happened right at the time. What are the odds that they actually und…

Fortunately, Google has regulatory contacts and an armada of lawyers. They're fully capable of working on this.

I'll give you an example: YOUR FUCKING COMMENT HERE. A user says he feels like Docker folks treat users like idiots and you... 1) imply that he's wrong for thinking that ("sad that…

I have a lot of egg on my face for having introduced Docker into my company a year ago. I liked their vision, and I figured that there'd be some bumps in the road, but that it woul…

Uber is wildly overvalued. If there was a reasonable way to short it, I would. Heavily. They're building an airline. It will stabilize as a large business with minuscule (at best) …

1) USV has money because they have better returns, not because of their "echoing fanbase". 2) The better returns started a virtuous cycle, in that USV gets better dealflow than ave…

1) It is naive, at best, to believe that the wholesale destruction of privacy for individuals will also mean the wholesale destruction of privacy for elites. This simply won't happ…

> It wasn't HFTs that brought down the economy in '07-'08. It was their adversaries. That's a cute quote, but it's not true in any meaningful sense. HFTs weren't trading against th…

You've described a valuable part of algorithmic trading. It's a social good, and it creates value for everyone involved. It's a good thing. When informed people want to defend HFT,…

If you mean the economic burden, yes, but I don't think they need to bear all the burden My big complaint with private prisons, as they stand today, is that they tend to get paid b…

This was a political and cultural question: is the contract the code? The hard-fork won by arguing that "no, the contract is the code plus whatever a quite small number of greasy n…