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Switching to temp id here. Lost respect for American immigration laws long back. This is not a crack down this is pretence of doing something by creating more trouble for those who…

There is no lassez-faire when it comes to Google, Facebook etc. For example i can not advertise guns or cigars on them. Free speech is absolute and should always be but I don't thi…

It will all depend on how the municipal broadband people run their service and at what true cost to the city administration.

I am sorry to harsh words but this is really bad bad journalism. Objective of tech articles should be to educate an average person and not to deliberately confuse him/her/it. This …

People are ignoring scale effects of Bitcoin. Bitcoin currently like wild west. Only crazy, brave, adveturers or stupid are entering this land. $7000 is bloody nothing. Bitcoin wil…

Anyone not investing in Bitcoin is going to deeply regret it. Is is like buying landing 1920s in downtown SF.

Falling birth-rates of middle-class/upper middle-class in USA coupled with strong government hatred for Asian immigrants is likely to result into serious economic issues for USA in…

The doomsday articles should be taken with a pinch of salt. Economy by itself has a very good recuperative power because people like to trade and get themselves into better situati…

It is worth asking how successful the visa has been. From what I have seen the visa was heavily abused by progeny from corrupt Indian politicians who sent their kids to USA with bo…

> Uber practices as a company are toxic for its employees and some of the toxicity leak to society. Why are Uber employees not leaving and joining Lyft for the lower pay ? How does…

China is deeply racist and expansionist. Their claims on various parts of India are totally ridiculous. Their annexation Tibet is also blatantly illegal. China is not USA, it is no…

Snap's UI is a bit like that of Pinterest. I am not really sure why either of them are a hit.

HN probably won't question her overpay for two reasons 1. Fear of being labelled as sexist. 2. It makes no sense. She is not really overpaid. Firstly, Mayer's career is over. After…

> to balance the benefit gained by the guy who took the action, compared to the loss his community suffered by his departure. Not true. Any resource when used efficiently benefits …

Wish you the best. Also people who keep complaining about other people's privileges should read this several times. People rising from bottom to top is more common than we think.

1c per visit ? That is like $10 CPM. that is crazy expensive when most publishers don't make more that $2 CPM.

This statistical comparison is completely irrelevant because it has totally different type of distribution. You can look at car accidents of last 10 years and confidently say next …

> I wonder why they've never picked up on the obvious real-world example of a nation with no central state government with a monopoly on violence? Reason 1: Enforcement of contract…

> SoftBank's endgame is here... I don't think there is an endgame. Softbank simply wants to grow its wealth over time. > Instead of doing something a la YCombinator? YC is not scal…

I think this would have happened irrespective of NSA's policies.

What surprised me in USA was the poor quality of jeans. If you go to low end places like Target or Wallmart you will find less variety and bad fitting and no attention is paid to t…

Depends of objective of classification. What you say is applicable when the objective is national security. When the objective is to hide incompetence it makes sense to make everyt…

Trump's election slogan was "Make America Great Again" implying that USA is at the bottom and we need him to bring it up. But then so was the campaign of Hillary or Bernie or any o…