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It is a bit sad to see the smartest engineers in the world all working towards implementing and maintaining the largest spying apparatus in history. We should be focusing on learni…

Heh, I got a chuckle out of that :) Thanks for sharing.

Lobbying itself doesn't involve an exchange of money (its illegal to directly compensate a politician in exchange for services). If you write a letter to a politician its lobbying.…

You're 100% correct. Its mostly about finding a system that works for you. As a format fat person I have internalized the fact that my body's hunger signal is broken and that 'eat …

A lot of human progress in core sciences and engineering is on the backs of people toiling the midnight hours on sheer passion for little monetary reward. We owe a great debt of gr…

Except CEOs, apparently they're always overpaid. ;)

>States provide the infrastructure and educate the workforce which enables the job creations. Yes, there is a nice division of responsibilities. But ultimately, governments are doi…

There were a lot many years from the time of Amazon's inception till they became a monopoly. It seems like your "what could be" experiment has already been done. There was plenty o…

For me, I am convinced that they create jobs, spend money in the economy, help provide valuable goods and services to society, etc. Amazon is famous for not hoarding money but re-i…

By that same logic, why should USA salaries be higher than the rest of the developed world? Will you work less hard if you can only get $70,000 versus $200,000? The CEO is an emplo…

That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

The quantum substrate being non-deterministic doesn't mean that free-will exists/doesn't exist. It has to be shown as such. What is happening at the quantum level, to the extent th…

>Well current scientific thought says yes Link to evidence?

Wind the clock back to a time when you made a decision. Is it possible for you to make a different decision if you had the exact same mood/context/environment/knowledge and all the…

Since its near you, have you tried going there and explaining it to the manager?

>In the glorious future, every website will be chock-full of semantic metadata. Restaurants won't have a 50MB PDF explaining the chef's vision for organic cuisine That is a good id…

Okay, but I'm not sure what the pentagon papers have to do with coinbase or anything we're discussing here. It goes without saying that I am not proposing a principle that applies …

I was not thinking this to be a payroll position. Just a consulting / one-off transaction. In those situations, I haven't heard of any verification of immigration documents... mayb…

I don't think we should reward employees for bringing the stock up, but blame the CEO for when the stock drops. Its a team effort either way. >That doesn't make the title click bai…

I don't know everything about Coinbase's history, but I agree with most of the tweet. Airing dirty laundry in public, and arm twisting management is not really a great strategy. Th…

Hmm, are you on the hook if they don't disclose this?

> Even here on HN, plenty of folks will comment on all kinds of research they know little about. I don't see anything wrong with that, because all opinions are not equal. I think t…

I don't think low level system APIs when called from an App should be messing with UI components. Can you explain what is better about it?

I don't think its realistic to expect a Windows developer to solve a problem in Excel!

I think news is a public good, and much like paying for educating our kids, there has to be a sustainable funding model to educate the adults as well. But thats my view, and we may…