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Twitter was doing fine. By taking it private, he saddled it with massive debt its current revenue couldn’t service. And every decision thereafter has been half baked and poorly exe…

The irony is that without the digital realm the capital riots wouldn’t have ever happened.

I am a white guy from the states who speaks Mandarin. It's not really racism per se, it's just more that it's harder to win their trust if you're not one of them to begin with. The…

To be honest, don’t don’t it. Unless you’re of Chinese descent and speak the language, you won’t be able to advance in most companies. The work culture is alien to most westerners …

Chrome uses open search for the amazon search. It's not some chrome magic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch

Richest man in history and already unknown to most of the world, along with many others on the list. Just goes to show that legacy is not measured on a balance sheet.

If the Canadian government requests the United States government to detain someone, the US would. That's the nature of extradition treaties. Nobody is doing anyone's "bidding".

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that video was faked.

No. Ask a person why they are "successful" and they will give you the answer they tell themselves. "I worked harder than others, I am smarter, I went to a good school, etc. etc." W…

FYI, the Chevy Nova story is apocryphal. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dont-go-here/

What everyone is overlooking is that of course the Prius would be a top trade-in how many have been produced in the last 20 years? It's like saying that the CAR X is the new Camry,…

I would have called it Clacket. Cool project nonetheless.

Having worked in several Chinese tech co's, this is not in the least surprising to me. In one company I worked in, the CEO used the girls in the office like his personal harem. Wom…

Whenever you read an article like this ask yourself why it hasn’t happened yet. Geely, Great Wall and numerous other Chinese domestic brands have been operating for decades. Why ha…

The same reason why brands are desirable in legal markets. Mainly for quality control and the ability for the user to ask for a specific pill that they enjoyed or heard good things…

I wonder if Wave and Reader are hanging out in heaven somewhere.

This is akin to arresting a movie theater patron for bringing in outside food.

"As seen on Hacker News"

Venmo is PayPal.

Maybe we should change the nomenclature, 500-year flood denotes once every 500 years. As opposed to a 0.2% chance. This, in turn, causes people that don't pay attention to floodpla…

But maybe we have lost something also. As a truly social species, do we not lose as a society when barriers are erected to sociability? The literature certainly points to increased…

That data folder seems ripe for a DMCA takedown request.

Even with her permission he is still breaking the law. Unlawful access to a system is not the user's prerogative but the system operator's.