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Slightly tangential, but in Brave New World they trained future embryos to be rocket-plane engineers altering oxygen levels based on their vertical orientation. > The first of a ba…

The Block Club is a local non-profit news organization, it seems a bit disingenuous to delegitimize them by calling them a "blog with a pretty transparent agenda". The fact that th…

For some some petty crimes (running red lights, not socially distancing, etc..), all neighborhoods actually commit them at a fairly consistent rate, but it is not enforced consiste…

Thought it would be relevant but a few years back California was also in the news for building a gang database of children as young as one year old (for which they've since acknowl…

These types of tools seem excellent for prototyping, but always fall short in addressing the real world issues of increasing scope and maintainability. No code web development (Wor…

If this were a chrome extension, I'd be down.

Does end to end encryption help when it's known that much of the traffic is routed through China? Genuine question.

I agree, he does not believe it to be dangerous. That's kind of my point. He does not believe it to be dangerous, but many of his readers and even black journalists have acknowledg…

Before reading this I had a feeling it was related to the James Bennet situation at the Times. I've been following the narratives unfolding around news rooms and I would offer this…

I agree to an extent. I'm one of those people that believes corporations are more likely to function and government intervention is likely to deepen disfunction. However, I don't s…

I often see many people show immediate solidarity with Amazon as soon as the ideas of anti-trust or monopoly are brought up. If the government is allowed to break up a large corpor…

Hey Y'all, my name's Ricardo and I spent the past couple of months building The Carrot App. Like many others I started off with a spreadsheet for tracking dividend income, but soon…

When posting to HN it states posts must be on-topic and exclude things such as "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new ph…

As already repeated here, unionize or find someone with the leadership capable of leading one. As an individual you may not have much power, but a group of AWS engineers collective…

The industrial revolution was a period of unprecedented growth for our country and the world as a whole. It ushered in a new era, built immense fortunes, and led to the creation of…

Credit is due to anyone willing to sacrifice, no matter how small, for the voiceless and underrepresented.