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Even if you believe that humanity would have been better if a some global dictator could have stopped the Internet and the Internal combustion system, that's simply not how society…

How will the people who continuously rationalize cars justify that they are destroying a profession - horse carriage driver - that was fun and profitable ? How will the people who …

( serious answer ) It makes driving a lot more relaxing in a way that you don't appreciate until you get used to it. My feet are off the pedals and can stretch, I don't have to ste…

Now this is an opinion I can get behind. I'd love to see all cars (including Waymo) compete on a standard set of tests with clear gates as to what conditions they'd be allowed to g…

Don't know which utopia you live in, but are you really happy with the other drivers texting, sleepy, high or just completely incompetent at the wheel? If anything, FSDs are over-c…

I, and apparently a lot of other people on the Internet find the latest Tesla FSD update pretty incredible. There's a reason why Tesla gave it as a free trial to everyone. I drove …

OK, we'll have to agree to disagree. The context here is Tech and why the US is 'special' for people who want to get ahead. You asked how it's different from Germany. My answer is …

I'm an American who works quite a bit with companies in Germany. The number of opportunities in tech and the speed with which new ones arise can't be compared. Look at the latest t…

How is this any different from farm machinery 200 years ago or industrial automation 50 years ago? More production with far less people. The same concerns that tithes would lead to…

Global living standards have been rising sharply for the last 50 years, first in China, then South East Asia, recently India and there are signs it's going to start happening in Af…

Pharmaceutical Distribution - How many people have heard of McKesson?

> The 2nd (with higher inequality) is obviously preferred. Is this really obvious to modern left?

There are literally hundreds of developers in FAANG companies putting down payments a lot more than 200k in the Bay Area. The median compensation including RSUs is over 400k. If yo…

Union City across the Dumbarton Bridge should be less than 50%. It's 22 minutes with no traffic. You can also get to SF in 40 minutes on BART. I've lived in a home similar to http:…

> For example, I would rather make $500k per year and have $10k net worth, than make $100k per year and have a $1 million net worth. Why? Are you assuming that you'll quickly build…

Sweet deal! Looking forward to what's next for the Leftronic product.

Our CEO says CC! Drop by anyways :)

Come stop by. http://www.appdirect.com We're based in San Francisco but founded by two Canadians.

I don't know if that's a SOX law. However, I do know that it is a PCI requirement. A single person shouldn't be able to introduce new code and then be able to push their own change…

Yup Facebook and Yahoo are PHP. Google/Amazon/eBay/Walmart.com are all primarily a combination of Java and C++.

We're using Apache Wicket and are pretty happy with it.

What would you call a P/E ratio over 9500? http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRM Both the stock and the P/E ratio has been growing for years.

SalesForce is public and has P/E of 9500. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRM The reason they don't miss earnings is that the expectation is so low. It doesn't matter, they're the 'cl…

I'm in a 3 person startup located in downtown San Francisco that is looking for a AJAX expert http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/1469284027.html