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I'm not from the States. From Europe and watching in disbelief. My point was that supporting a sexist, xenophobic candidate is to condone his sexism and xenophobia. To tolerate thi…

It seems to be a typical postmodern viewpoint that every idea is equally valid. But even if you're not "racist, sexist, xenophobic, or accepting sexual assault", if you, as a reaso…

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Not withstanding the upshot, I'm always wondering about the ill effect of technology on society. This is a painful example. Take it easy everyone!

I can personally vouch for Kevin and his team's work here in Berlin. It has already improved my quality of life!

OR, you could just get off your ass and build it yourself ... monetary cost: $0, time cost: 6 months, benefit: you now have an extra skillset and the ability to execute your ideas …

No offence, but it's a bit rubbish. How this got 174 upvotes is beyond me. Anyway, Here's my weekend project on the SC api, which we won the Amsterdam Music Hack day SC api prize w…

utter rubbish. I know lots of black people who live happy lives in Berlin.

Dude, get a history book.

Berlin is a FANTASTIC city to bootstrap your project ... reasons: 1. cheap cost of living, 2. availability of relatively well paid contract work, 3. A very supportive startup / cre…

We've been working on a custom engineered collaborative filtering algorithm not only to recommend movies for one person but for several to watch together, at the same time. We're s…

This is exactly why SOPA / ACTA et al must be stopped. If this happened me, in 2012, I would go straight onto kickstarter to get donations for the legal fees and fight these dickhe…

Let this be a lesson: never write a letter to a co-founder while drunk or high!!

I would argue that once you dismiss ads and scroll down the page that content is entirely readable. The internet has given us an expectation that everything should be free and imme…

"I give Facebook five years before it shares the fate of MySpace. I give Google ten years before it becomes a Yahoo -- still around but not a leading light, by any means." Personal…

For posterity sake, I'd better answer my own questions: - yes, unfortunately we're no longer building for the web, we're building for the facebook and google platforms, and it piss…

Specific questions I'm thinking of: - Is it all facebook and google from here on in? - Are we going to solve the energy crisis?, How about the climate crisis? - Flying cars? seriou…

There's no point in saying that if he was starting facebook knowing what he knows now, he would do things differently ... The reason he knows what he knows now is BECAUSE he starte…

This is awesome, thanks! I just emailed everyone who signed up in the past week using a similar template ... Obviously I should have been doing this all along, But I'm a first-time…