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Interesting conversations happening in the comment sections on that site.

Whenever I see systems like this I am left wondering what people do on mobile? Are you never in the need to write a note or create a task when you're away from the computer?

Interestingly in Dubai International Airport, they have these smart gates that recognize you and re-issue your re-entry eVisa using facial recognition. You walk up, they scan your …

Anecdotal, but I just yesterday took a combination of Amtrak and BART to fly out of SFO. This one way trip, I nearly stepped in human feces transferring from the Richmond Amtrak St…

> attend offline events! Be adventerous Meeting in-person is harder but increases the intimacy and richness of communication. Combine an offline meetup with a walk through a park o…

Seems like YouTube is not alone in radicalizing people. The question is what isn’t radicalizing people. NYT and the old media is fighting YT and the new media for the rights to be …

I had these in Uzbekistan, they sell them everywhere, and people suck on them like it’s chewing gum. They were not to my taste, very bitter and very salty.

Is this bait?

I noticed this as well.

> This is a good way to escape reality, but not much more. I've done this plenty of times, but the world doesn't stop moving because you're ignoring what's going on. Unless you’re …

By removing all jobs that don’t pay a livable wage you essentially remove all jobs that low-skilled workers are working. I don’t see how that would help the poor. Fighting poverty …

They were prepared to do it. It was set to go into effect and was going to it if wasn’t for the emergency stay order.

Why stop at Uber drivers? Why don’t the California regulators just regulate away all jobs that don’t pay a livable wage? Why don’t the California regulators just raise the minimum …

I’ve never been poor. But I wasn’t exactly middle class. My parents were immigrants. Poverty is terrible, and I agree it should be dealt with. But how has this law helped? Uber and…

All? No. Some if not most? Yes. There are many cases to be made against minimum wage laws and anti-compete laws. A laws designed to affect everyone but instead has hundreds of exem…

I agree, marriage isn’t a requirement for a stable and long term relationship. That being said, it’s a pretty good indicator, or at least it used to be, and a shift of 36% is very …

The most striking quote to me from this was: > In 1960, the out-of-wedlock birthrate in the U.S. was 3 percent. In 2000, it was about 30 percent. Today, it is 40 percent. No matter…

My problem with ProtonMail is their requirement to use their bridge software for 3rd party mail apps and their requirement to use only their mobile application. I get the limitatio…

This isn't true, we outsource work to Colombian developers frequently.

That’s a very cynical view. What about You and I who also have a down payment and a mortgage? You can argue that Uber was exploiting workers, but at the same time, none of them wer…

You’ll be surprised by the answers to this on HN.

The difference here is that the wealthy became wealthy by providing something of value. Wealth redistribution does the opposite, take from those that are providing value and give i…

You have a point but it’s pretty clear that most companies don’t care about PWAs and the ones that have PWAs they treat as a funnel to their App Store application. It’s pretty clea…

The main reason is that there are cards with far better rewards. The question is whether or not you’d qualify for them.