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> It reminds me of the made-up but often used story of terrified audiences running for the exits upon watching a film of a train for the first time. The cultural recontextualizatio…

> Do not try and compare an animal to a historically tragic event to justify word policing. Your use of tragedies to justify your woke word policing is quite frankly disgusting. de…

Let's start from 80 hours a week spent at work. Red flag #1. Don't know why you would assume that's necessary 3.5 hours/week showering. Red flag #2. Even if you shower every single…

The same reason that the Civil Rights act had to be passed in the courts and the first students in integrated schools in the south had to be marched in with armed guard. "Democracy…

Because it's bizarre and stands out. The clarifying sentence of marrying people that live elsewhere etc screams of "the lady doth protest too much". There's nothing wrong with sayi…

The ability to do something does not hold any weight with the people you're trying to convince. "Oh sure, Apple can revoke my access time, but they never would!" It's the same thin…

Off-topic question: Why do people insist on calling The Hoover Dam "one of the top engineering marvels". Surely, a dam that doesn't even make it into the top-25 tallest dams in the…

He also authored one of the two competing standards for JSON: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159

It's kind of how people are scared of dying in plane crashes but not in car crashes - the illusion of control. One easily imagines doing something to avoid a car death but not a pl…

Your comparison is bang on, except that's the point. Amazon isn't trying to be Ikea. It is absolutely trying to provide the building blocks for small companies and large to use the…

Clickbait article. Not a single explanation to be found. Just some history and background

You can criticize Amazon for a million things, but underpayment is not one of them.

Are you insane? VK has horrendous UX (best and simplest example: Browsing through image galleries resizes the image viewer so that the next and previous buttons constantly move) An…

Real problem. Terrible article. > “What these techies don’t realise though is that we’re no different to them - they’re just one misstep, one paycheck away from being us.” I don't …

Is it just me or is stuff like this way harder to appreciate these days (with the ubiquity of CGI), unless you work in the industry, or see a behind-the-scenes look like this? This…

I always wonder about people like you. How do you manage your receipts for all these things? And what about the additional time to go back and return lightbulbs. Does that not more…

No, don't work at AWS, for the record. But responses like this is why I'm a big fan of the Amazon platform and the point I was trying to make. Oh well.

I apologize for your poor experience with Amazon, and have no doubt that many mistakes were made with your account. But you should recognize that your experience is the exception n…

Interesting idea. Certainly a large percentage of our smartphone usage is turning on the screen to glance at a notification, then dismiss it. Smartwatches allow you to not have to …

Tesla was launched with the investment and vision of a man who's already made billions in the industry, not some teenagers with an idea and a garage.

Sounds like it fills a need effectively for the Disposable Income San Francisco Dweller. But "everyone" has got to be misleading, right? No way this is cost-effective for someone w…

From 5 days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2eawhw/how_serious_is_...

Someone white needs to die, and maybe people will start giving a shit.