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We are the ones who serve them coffee, deliver them food, suck their cocks, watch their kids, and mop their floors ... To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We…

Well, it's not going to be a popular opinion but I think it's a shame he's been forced out. Simply having the wrong views shouldn't make him ineligible for a job.

socially inept Good to see we're staying classy. Next time you might like to work in a zinger about autism, neckbeards and/or fedora ownership.

I'm sick of it. Goodbye, Hacker News. I know this is going to come across as unfriendly, but I'm always bemused when people make these little plays for attention. It's a massive si…

You're getting downvoted because: 1) Despite your disclaimer you are sounding unfeeling. 2) It seems convenient for a (presumably) relatively healthy and youthful person to be advo…

Here is exactly how you deal with some guy writing in to tell you you're too fat: delete the email and get on with your life . It's simple, it's easy, it solves the problem. Of cou…

My, how entitled we are! Lord! Do it yourself! Your complaints infuriate me! It feels like at some point the quality of the discourse on hackernews went downhill.

I've got one of the schnozzle bags with a compatible mat. It is categorically not cumbersome, not tedious, weighs the same and is filled with down so it has an R-value[1] of 5.9 in…

You've made, on average, one comment per hundred days you were here[1]. Nobody noticed you were here in the first place and I doubt they will notice you are gone. I have no idea wh…

Agreed. It's also a massive red flag for the future of the relationship if you can't negotiate over something like this.

I would personally enjoy some kind of hack that causes the White House to respond to successful petitions with something other than glib dismissal.

Great point! Perhaps we should also hobble the Africans who manually track poachers so we create twice as many jobs!

This is a blatant advertisement masquerading as an article. The new incarnation of SimCity might turn out to be a great game but this is nothing but an EA press release.

I see a few problems with this: * The website doesn't have critical mass or any special hooks (like pg's essays and pg himself, for instance) to help build it * I'm not "applying" …

It's news because Joachim Kempin has got a book to sell and he or his publishers have hired sufficient PR talent to make it news.

His net worth is $15.7 billion[1] so I doubt he's concerned about "squeezing as much out of it as he can". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer

From the link in the article: Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million. What…