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To be fair, those directors were told it was their fiduciary duty to maximize profits, and the systems surrounding them clamor with nonstop praise. We allow these empires of selfis…

Indeed, if self-driving cars killed 1,000 people a year they would immediately be banned, but 30x that in human-caused fatalities and nobody bats an eye. We have created a culture …

It isn't difficult math - selfish flow of traffic produces extremely un-optimal results, and congestion is simply a function of how much traffic chooses a certain path. I highly re…

The site in question has regularly been used as a place to coordinate doxxing and serious harassment. AFAIK no measures have been taken by the owners to remedy this, and thus they'…

Kingwood is the closest thing, because you can at least go for a nice nature walk or have your kids safely bike to school, but there is zero 'walk to the corner store' infrastructu…

My counterargument: The real work is not increasing complexity, but boiling down complex concepts into ones that can be worked with and exchanged easily. This is why math is so vit…

Yes, and the government learns a lesson.

We live in an age of profit pollution. Any farm doing this would be bought out by soy/corn growers, because the latter will be more profitable than the former. The same pollution i…

I found my favorite probiotic via offhand HN comment buried deep in a subthread.

Delightful tone, something that feels both whimsical and approachable.

Dogs smell in stereo with detailed temporal information. They know which way a deer passed and how many days ago.

Americans have avoided this problem by making the overwhelming majority of phone calls spam, so any call not from an existing contact is ignored.

I want people to be critical of the method du jour, but these 'production-like code examples' defy most of the modern conventions that a React dev would use. For example the fetch …

Why would this case be the exception?

My kanto dms2000 is my favorite thing on my desk.

As a Doctor, giving my patient a placebo sugar pill once a month is primarily for you. Not the Doctor. I won't let my staff ditch them 100% as there's also a component where I use …

The collusion between massive companies to keep out smaller competitors is the thrust of the matter, not what levers they pulled.

Exactly, every knows a company is run on good feelings from managers.

Signing a lease or building a new office is always a project by some highly paid non-technical person with 'executive' skills. I wonder why?

Under-paid developers with decent skills are so rare and precious, I can get $30k a head poaching them. I'll split the fee two ways if you want to let me in on your secret stockpil…

The problem with attention as a form of currency is that people are, almost definitionally, not aware when it is being taken from them.

These are a fascinating way to trace the evolution of games as a marketplace. The modern games storefront (pioneered by valve with steam) is far more Worth My Time than figuring ou…

People are missing the point - NYT paid to have THE wordle of the day - talking to other people about your specific battle with that day's word was 99 percent of the fun. The act o…

Pretty annoying twice a year during pledge drives, but that's a small price to pay ;)

Worked great during the (surviving) workers during the bubonic plague. https://history.wustl.edu/news/how-black-death-made-life-bet...