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Must have forgotten to say "thank you"

Just don't go looking for the etymology of "vanilla"

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I see "too big to fail" most commonly referenced when talking about the GFC of '08-'09. Nothing there happened because big players bought out smaller ones. Lehman Brothers wasn't e…

Allegedly, but not proven, right? https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ibm-wins-another-ru... https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/ibm_supreme_court/

I'm not sure which side I pity the most

Why? There's nothing inherently bad about acquisitions In fact, strong (~free) capital markets in which acquisitions happen frequently allow for more efficient (~optimal) allocatio…

While I appreciate the sentiment, surely that is not the reason why we should wish acquisitions to happen or fall through? There's something to be said about solving for maximum so…

It's the day after the YC application deadline, so my hypothesis is resources that would otherwise be dealing with these script kiddies spamming HN are spread thin at the moment...…

I'm recording this, because this could be the last thing I'll ever say The city I once knew as home is teetering on the edge of radioactive oblivion A three-hundred thousand degree…

So what? TFA is not about the working class nor does it need to be. Why this fixation on comparing yourselves with the poor?

False dichotomy much? That is not an argument against the parent's observation per se. One can imagine a culture that is organized, not hollow, and not only for the rich

Who said anything about comparing? But now that we're at it, would you prefer to compare yourself to the bottom 1%?