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> Do you understand how widespread this kind of research is? Literally everyone does this. One of the main objections I'm seeing from people (in my bubble) isn't that Facebook did …

Silicon Valley and the tech sector is full of adult babies. Watching the twitter reaction to this news (and others) is pretty fascinating. You're all so doom-and-gloom the first se…

>They could have just surveyed users back then to find out where they were screwing up, but in typical Google fashion, that would have involved actually engaging with their users, …

That's not a clear-cut mistake, and in my opinion totally forgivable. http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w005.html

I think it's a very valid criticism if your best people (not talking about "most" people, who don't start companies and create new stuff) can easily move to another country (or oth…

Yea, the lesson is: If you find yourself in a situation like that, bail out as fast as you can. When we're young we are often not taught—or more importantly we do not have the oppo…

Indeed, here was the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/215201435/dart-the-worl...

Isn't this the type of thing a place like Bell Labs would, or Google X should, be on top of? And not fruitlessly rehashing the space elevator idea?

IMO it's definitely Second-system syndrome. Maps worked fine and didn't need much added/changed, but someone decided that they needed to keep iterating and now we're stuck with all…

What surprised me more was that the Canary Islands was one of the first markets for IKEA (before 1985). I mean, the Canary Islands before Madrid or New York? WTF? I can only assume…

Yea, that's great and all but what happens when China and it's 1.4 billion people get their stuff together? It's astounding that it seems that few in the US government seem to ackn…

> This is the easy way out for them. As far as I understand they wanted to restructure but they are not being allowed to by the court. The first line[1] in the doc essentially says…

Meta: I love that lately there have been more health and biology related submissions here on HN. Dovetails nicely with YC new shift/interest, and matches one of my great personal i…

Shouldn't there be some kind of formula for this kind of thing? Some kind of way to gauge how much salary/year you should give up based on how likely you think they will be success…

An interesting theory, but the problem with it is that the pool of potential devs is effectively limitless (well, not really but it might as well be). They would have to pay me mul…

It should be noted that a parallel study[1] at the National Institute for Aging (NIA) found that this was not the case. The authors of this study (UW) claim (as far as I understand…

There are people fighting for those rights as well. And I don't think they're insane (as you seem to imply). As long as it's clearly agreed upon between consenting adults, it's not…

>They'll literally kill people, for profit and profit alone. And how many people would they be "killing" if they had decided to not develop the drug at all because there is no chan…

> neither my name or Coinbase-only email address was in this list That doesn't really mean anything, since it clearly says at the top: "Here is a partial list of Coinbase user emai…

I understand why people are upset about Facebook's acquisition of OVR, especially the hardcore gamers. I was surprised and upset when I first heard the news, too. However, from Fac…

Working link to actual article: http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867413015213

> [1]"Airbnb doesn’t even own a bed, but its backers think it’s more valuable than Hyatt" Sure, certainly an important thing to consider if you take the pessimistic view. On the ve…

Terrorism is also a non-0 probability possibility, which must also be considered.

> Crisprs is supposed to be somewhat noisy Since you seem knowledgeable: Do you know how they compare to other kinds of methods for cutting/splicing new genes into DNA, such as Zin…