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What’s your point? That we should continue to favor gas cars over EVs? That cars should be taken off the road entirely? Something else?

I’ve seen that engineering manager / pm split work like magic before. Usually there’s also an amazing tech lead in there making it work. It’s rocket fuel for the product (assuming …

If you'd like to not be downvoted into oblivion you'd do well to provide an alternate theory. What's your prediction for the upcoming election? Why? What's your methodology? Or is …

Say more about "but I don't consider it useful toward predicting the outcome" How else would one predict the outcome of a die roll, specifically?

The automatic ballistic defense systems a tank uses would obliterate an aircraft. They are basically shaped charges that explode outwards to deflect a munition. It only works becau…

What you’re suggesting is possible technically but nobody does it because the idea of having to turn your entire plane towards a missile threat to neutralize it virtually guarantee…

So I agree with Tim, and in a way he’d probably find too radical. But for the hacker news crowd, I’d point to this: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-wa... …

Basically Amazon is a symptom of global wealth inequality. He’s making the point that no company the size of Amazon, and no person as rich as Bezos, should exist. The bulk of the a…

I bet it is similar to Phoenix Live View: https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera... Which would be a big deal, indeed.

Yes, you do, but here's a short primer. https://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/h... Ultimately if you can't be bothered to read a short book on the subject, you…

Source? Top percent cutoff is about ~700k/yr, top 5% cutoff is ~300k/yr, and top 10% is ~100k/yr. This is for the entire US. ( https://www.epi.org/blog/top-1-0-percent-reaches-high…

Alex hammered his Sandy Hook conspiracy theory to the point of being sued for defamation, and losing ( https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=alex+jones+sandy+hook+lawsu... ). Families w…

My intuition is that you’d get more out of therapy than a career change right now. This sounds more like burnout or a lack of interest to me. But framing it as a lack of intelligen…

It is an anti-parasitic and immune-regulation drug. Not really an antiviral. I guess the theory is that it’d regulate an immune over-response. But I don’t think the science is m sh…

I actually feel this way about attacks on employment in general, so I'll try to give some quick context about the belief. I grew up in a lower-middle-class household. We declared b…

I agree though I think blaming journalists is a red herring. Ultimately most journalists are just trying to make ends meet and are in no better position to change the rules of the …

Overprescribing antibiotics to animals helps keep meat cheap. Politicians have a hard time with the headwinds caused by ads like “Evil big-government libs are raising the price of …

That paragraph tracks with what I've heard from female peers that work at Microsoft too. Microsoft talks a good game but fails to do the right thing when the going gets tough (e.g.…

Unions aren't perfect, so take care to not scrap your car because it has a dent. https://www.google.com/search?q=do+unions+benefit+employees+... First two links have loads of comme…

Non violent drug offenses is the example you’re looking for.

Yep, for all it’s business know-how HN just doesn’t understand this one. He’s making games for people that value story and world building above all else. He’s making a relative pit…

I've lived in Seattle for 1.5 years. I became numb to the hyperbole around the homeless problem here in 6 months. One side is talking facts, experimentation, and trying new things.…

It is down: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/is-seattle-dy...