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> I feel strongly about this, mostly because it happened to myself: After being sold, the first company that employed me introduced a "completely fair and transparent" compensation…

I like crypto, but damn it's inefficient and costly. Even the crypto that's newer than Bitcoin (all of it?) and therefore more efficient (not proof-of-work/stake?) is still not eff…

Agreed. But I think big tech didn't use their power years ago when advertisers started demanding their ads don't appear next to X, where X is the offensive thing/position/etc. Big …

Sounds like he believed in The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis: > The hypothesis of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis /səˌpɪər ˈwɔːrf/, the Whorf hypothesis, o…

> A good first step would be to stand aside and let ICC prosecute, which even actual pardons would not block. Who would they prosecute? Obama or Bush? It seems like the implication…

> I wouldn't recommend either if you haven't read Dune, book 1, though. Read it. Why is that? I read Dune when I was a kid but don't remember the particulars -- do I need them for …

To be honest I don't pay attention to my paychecks. I work in Silicon Valley and have things direct deposited into my bank account, which I never check. Theoretically, my current (…

> Picture tech people walking on their treadmills for compensation and then picture gerbils running on wheels for food. Picture tech people drinking Soylent and then picture gerbil…

Haha I just finally splurged on that $0.99/mo iCloud storage, after just not backing up my phone forever :/

Yes, definitely. The tech company I work for was all SF based for it's engineering. Now they're open to hiring from anywhere. They haven't entirely committed to hybrid/remote. They…

This is a great project. I recently read the books "Your brain on Porn" and "Quit Porn and get Rich". Porn induced erectile dysfunction is now incredibly common. Younger and younge…

To be fair America has the Veterans Affairs administration, which is socialized medicine, albeit for a small subset of the population, veterans. If you recall from Donald Trump's p…

Would you recommend people skip Blockly if they want to teach people to code?

I dislike this story in journalism and podcasts too. I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts: > Before Y was murdered, they lived in X. X is a quiet town, the type of place where …

Right. I'm wondering what the hell this donation means. Van Jones isn't an activist and is a partisan commentator. This country has been divided by people like him in the news medi…

It's not a bribe. Van Jones will likely quit his job as a CNN commentator. Why would he stay? It's a strange donation tbh. Also CNN is a very partisan news source and Van Jones isn…

What do you think the long term impact will be? The company I work for may have adapted to remote work by noticing they didn't need the Bay Area talent pool. In the past few weeks …

> If you stand in solidarity with those who flagrantly abuse their power, you're not doing your best. I've been thinking of this. And everyone on HN is not doing their best then. E…

I think it's more the fact that there aren't alternative options. Other comments have already explored how America has a "union monopoly" system for lack of a better term: where un…

> My practice has been to automatically restart my phone whenever I am approached by a police officer. This has happened maybe once in the last year or 2. In the United States (whe…

The people who draw the distinction generally don't like the pilgrims settlers because of what they did when they got here. In contrast to immigrants, who did not "settle" anyone o…

> My elderly parents are unable to make the switch from Yahoo to Google. I’ve walked them through it multiple times. It’s just not possible for them. They don’t have the knowledge …

Overly negative take: hopefully one of these days the people who try to turn their pets into "social media influencers" will be seen as animal abusers :)

Yea I considered looking into Coinbase when they announced a similar policy - but I've got some equity keeping me at my current job. If that weren't the case I may jump ship.