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The behavior and displays in these ideological flamewars have gotten so much worse over the last year, and the pace of that change seems to be accelerating. There seems to be a dem…

I'm referring to the kind of vilification that would cause brand damage for Tesla, so consumer-facing vilification. Consumer-facing vilification in US media isn't really about what…

> The rest of the board, and supposedly Musk is being replaced to get a little bit more financial responsibility in Tesla. He’s being replaced as consideration for a settlement agr…

I always thought distributed systems weren’t necessarily decentralized systems. Is my understanding of the terminology wrong? For example a system that uses distributed algorithms …

Yeah, I’ve always had the same thought. Another musical pet peeve of mine is when, usually during the intro, a song doubles the number of bars for a sequence, basically repeating i…

Your comment post-edit is pretty much the reason I read HN. This model of geopolitics as an ungoverned society of nations is something I’ve never considered. Then, the natural tend…

Looks interesting. Can you go into some detail on what your workflow is like? Is your dev environment pure Linux then, able to install everything in aptitude, etc? How does using a…

I’m impressed with the Surface Pro hardware and could see myself dropping Mac hardware entirely. What stops me is Windows. I’m very comfortable in Unix-like environments and I’m no…

I'm not aware of any paid news sources that fit my needs, maybe you can recommend some. I agree that headlines are bad, which is why I discount them almost entirely, as I mentioned…

So "advocacy journalism" is basically a form of journalism wherein all the statements are technically factual, but the journalists intentionally and transparently ignore all other …

> At this point it's pretty much impossible to read such articles and figure out whether there is an actual institutional problem. I have a similar feeling about all articles from …

Everyone I've talked to in the industry views people with a Masters much less favorably than people with a Bachelors or PhD. And from experience I can say there is a shockingly hig…

Have you considered the possibility that a degree from a top university could influence an interviewer's report of the candidate's technical proficiency? During one interview I had…

How true is this today?

The computer security industry for SMBs is like 95% theater and 5% actual practice. Conducting that test produced something tangible for whoever made the purchasing decision: It cl…

> I really hate this idea of the grand visionary. ... I listened to a bit of his Joe Regan interview and when Regan asked him how he has the time to do all of the things he does, t…

> Ya you can imagine any scenario you want. I can imagine a scenario where a homeless person's life is better than if he had a home. It's not hard to imagine. But if you had a choi…

It’s not at all difficult to imagine a scenario where his life is better after turning down Instagram. I wouldn’t even say it’s unlikely. Just name one important relationship he fo…

> I'm sure I was projecting and it was just trying to avoid being eaten, but it seemed way more intelligent than other insects. Really interesting, but I agree it's most likely jus…

I love the last sentence of the article: > Adult females are known to eat their mating partners after sex. Just thought they'd throw that one in before signing off! But I do suppos…