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Would it go away if there was less of it? Can you imagine ways there could be less of it?

Why isn't HTTP going away?

Where is the 16ms hardwired latency in the browser coming from?

Finally, someone gets it. Thank you!

> we have to migrate everything to javascript Why? What I really want is the whole browser to go away.

ACID correct distributed transactions are possible. Google's F1 paper shows how: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... Very, very painful problems are ver…

Compose didn't offer only RethinkDB. It offered many other databases as well.

I wish they had added transactions. It seems like such an important feature.

Does RethinkDB not support transactions? I thought it did.

Did RethinkDB spend $8M in 3 years?

I wish RethinkDB had published a performance benchmark against Hadoop. It'd be enough to show the world how ahead of its times RethinkDB is. I also wish I knew what RethinkDB's inv…

Sentences are creations. Does this mean every sentence we write on HN or say to each other by default is closed and needs a license?

Would we be worse off if there weren't any?

Another gem > My belief is that the inexperienced, interested person will outperform the experienced, uninterested person over time.

> I did customer support by myself until we had 250,000 users It's good to know what the limit to customer support can be. Don't say customer support doesn't scale.

Is hot reloading that big of a problem?

I'm trying to be an objective observer here. My text classification software marked the third line as the most authentic, most truthful line. Huh.

There's a huge discussion in this thread on tabs being slow, which made me wonder: is it necessary for browsers to have tabs? Windows desktop apps work great without tabs. Could li…

Why isn't Tesla doing this?

In the "Top of the World" graph in the article, there's a dip for Saudi Arabia. Does anyone know why?

If both Allo users have responses recommended by the app, who's chatting with each other -- the users or the apps?