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Hi Larry, I for one thank you for your contribution. Hacker News can be a bunch of jackasses at times. You are absolutely right: distributed version control led to git, which compl…

Several points: 1) Google has Android because they did something very similar to Apple: Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board and used his inside info to drive smartphone development a…

Are you seriously advocating reporting someone to the police based on a one sentence secondhand account from a single dumb Hacker News front page post? You have zero context for wh…

The FDA is not elected, or even indirectly elected. They are career bureaucrats with career tenure who cannot be fired. How would you even know that they are doing a good job? Last…

The answer is to stop arguing with words and start targeting Gawker's business model. Their advertiser list is in plain view. Go to their about page to see all the megacorps that h…

What Silicon Valley does better than anyone is create exits. They know how to get people who they have made money for to turn over a lot of that money to buy the companies they hav…

startups which provide deluxe on-site benefits could extend their daycare, meal and on-site walk-in health care to people who have WIC or EBT cards and can show that they live in t…

Let's also make sure the person criticizing said "assholes" is not paid to be a professional asshole themselves, like Sam Biddle or Nitasha Tiku at Valleywag.

Hank Greely is not a "genetics prof", he is a bioethicist in Stanford's Law School. He doesn't develop new genetic technologies. This is like calling a film critic a director. http…

How many women and non-Asian minorities does Matasano end up hiring with that process?

The fundamental upstream question here is whether men and women should show the exact same patterns of ability and interest given their measurably different organs, hormones, chrom…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#Crimestop Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the…

Huh? Nature Publishing Group, where Rowan Manning works, makes its profit margins from extorting scientific libraries rather than superior code. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category…

Well, it looks like the mediocre developer's qualities are on display in this tool, as Rowan Manning sure seems to care a great deal about whether you drink beer or not. We are tal…

> is totally a fascist looking to hunt down fellow citizens for the state. That is exactly what it is. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/

I'm sure he doesn't. Just as I'm sure we don't want to work with religious fanatics. Go forth ye neo-Puritans and build a startup without a competitive environment, where no one ca…

This is the same kind of person who would write software to find anti-Islamic comments had he been born in Iran, or to hunt down dissidents if born in China. The kind of person who…

Avatar was quite negative. Syriana, Rendition, and Jarhead were as well. Your general point definitely stands, post 9/11 at least, but those are notable exceptions.

This plot compares an inferred model to the instrumental record. Here is the study expressed in the words of Real Climate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/09/pal…

They have, just on a category-by-category basis. Many of the sharing economy companies are included. http://cdixon.org/2012/11/23/some-problems-are-so-hard-they-...

It is easy to justify "inaction" on this. 1) This kind of article is pure propaganda, intended to make money for Business Insider by "raising questions" and selling ad revenue agai…

There ARE people who refuse to help themselves. They do exist. The only way you can believe to the contrary is because you haven't worked with the homeless. No amount of money can …

That's a silly response. There are seven million people in the Bay Area. A tiny fraction are homeless. Try lifting up an adult human being sometime. It's not easy. These people are…

What is the difference in your view? Very interested to hear this. The sums involved in this case ($20000) are less than those involved in most employment scenarios.