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I think quietly doing good is okay, it's the people who talk about it that are risky.

On the contrary, I think the people who know whether an action is right or wrong don't spend a lot of time arguing either way, they just go ahead and do what they think is right. I…

Maybe, but for the silent majority it's pretty straightforward: 1) we view information as fundamentally different from currency, goods, and services; 2) we don't want to pay for in…

I dunno, someone was asking why the downvotes, that's all I could think of. I agree it's nasty to highlight the words like that.

Tell that to the bicycle.

The main problem I have with the prevalence of adblockers is that now you have to "block" the meta-advertising people in discussion forums that criticize you or attempt to make you…

Unfortunately I think this makes universities less hypocritical because it's more in line with the way academia works on the inside.

I think it's just that there's a lot of dramatic and hyperbolic words and phrases in there, here's a list from a quick pass: > religion, anyone, conviction, enemy, must, silenced >…

There's just way more capital per capita for developers in SF. You might want to consider why bankers in SF are paid so poorly relative to London.

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Inch / foot / yard / mile is a really small range compared to what metric can handle (anything), so in practice most science is done with metric units.

Yeah, but the claim was: > Companies never give substantial raises to current employees. and a single counterexample is enough to counter it.

What are the pros and cons of Silicon Valley being the VC capital of the world? How do you feel about it on the whole? Do you guys ever talk about diversifying, either inside the U…

Sometimes people cross their arms because it's a comfortable resting position. It's common in overweight men, the arms rest on the belly quite naturally. Often people will lean bac…

The FSF considers BSD a free software license, it's just non-copyleft. There was a lot of discussion on Groklaw about taking BSD code, modifying it, and slapping a GPL license on t…

The key for me was to change my personal definition of success from winning the lottery to simply doing things well on a consistent basis.

At the very least I think Musk would have been a good engineer, and PG would be inspiring young people to try.

Yes, but I think there's also something to be said for learning to swim in life's ocean of ups and downs, making the most of your situation. For me, a successful person is someone …

keep-telling-yourself-that-ocracy

I've seen the same thing at companies, where employees get in trouble for talking about confidential information that is known outside of the company. I think the rationale is beca…

What's the argument?

I think the misogyny claim is because the analogy portrays the choice between a rich woman and poor woman as obviously being in favor of the rich woman, and on top of that it chara…