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why are there so many orientalist racists on HN?

This is evidence that: Investors and VCs are not smart/do not have enough information/experience to make smart decisions generally The only way to escape working for non-smart peop…

It is the same mechanism as the mortgages that created the housing bubble -- an almost limited amount of credit with a 0% risk (in theory, not practice as we will soon see).

You're implicitly making a prediction here. Are you sure that the market will fall in the coming weeks?

Heard it before, google Orientalism.

So Die Zeit is on the same level as the New York Times, you mean.

Your entire post is FUD to such an extent that you seem like a paid shill. Poitras is an independent filmmaker and Greenwald was denounced for years by NYT, WAPO and other establis…

Wouldn't trust a Silicon Valley startup to care about our properly execute for "safety." This is a pump and dump, making a quick buck.

Exactly. Dark matter and dark energy is just a symptom of the standard model of physics being incorrect. >Dark matter neither emits nor absorbs light or any other electromagnetic r…

The farmers get to sell more milk.

No nation has its finances in order, whether they are part of the EU, or if it's the U.S. or Japan or China. Get off your high horse.

He obviously knows nothing and so fit the ignorant and arrogant American stereotype to a t.

How has your country (you must be American) distinguished itself by doing these same core social and psychological issues? Or are Americans stubborn and ignorant?

Your president's ideology is American Exceptionalism which he uses to give grounds for the murder, rape and torture of all non-Americans, and daily acts of terrorism and genocide i…

>I'm REALLY wondering "why the hell did AirBnB catch on and this didn't?!" Marketing budget

no, i rent it out.

indeed, they are the super-middleman because digital platforms can grow much larger than analog ones.

renting out isn't sharing.

Indeed. Ad-financed media has to be entertaining, not factual.

Airbnb and Uber have nothing, 0.000%, to do with sharing. They have simply built a digital infrastructure for renting out rooms and selling taxi fares. Their success lies in the fa…

Apple should just pay royalties out of their own, enormous pockets of $172B (our whatever it was) for the first three months, just not charge users. Then there wouldn't be a proble…

So compensation is not relevant to your point at all since you didn't list it. Or were you looking for mind readers? The low response rate makes sense in that case.

Sure, but this is not a relevant response to my comment unless you meant it as an insult.

As a recent graduate for whom it took a year and a half and a move to a different country to find another job, I think I've developed job searcher's PTSD. Applied to lots of jobs I…