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I think it's perfectly valid to point out that improvements in technology are beneficial to the poor. Technology is the reason why most people would likely prefer to be poor in 202…

The spread of this narrative is fascinating, given how easy it is to find counterexamples. I attribute it to a lack of education around business. One of my good friends is a highly…

I see your point now, but your comment above (MLK's quote) comes across as saying the opposite. It sounds like it's saying that Trump et al are okay, they're just exercising their …

The variables here are: * where your boundaries lie along the spectrum from self-serving to doormat * your propensity to be generous to people on the good side of your boundaries I…

What's disingenuous is assuming people who disagree with you (and who present supporting arguments) are knowingly bad actors. Actually, they're much more likely to be normal people…

Comments like this are useless, bc you're declaring someone is wrong without any explanation of (a) why they're wrong, and (b) what's actually correct. The result is that I have no…

> It's not interesting. It's not interesting to you . Not every comment needs to be interesting to everyone. > Every major thread on HN has at least one comment trying to force the…

I think it's an interesting comment and see no reason America deserves some special shield from criticism, trope or not. It should be responded to on its own merit, just like anyon…

What makes it not terrorism? Because the target was government-run facilities instead of civilians, or something else?

Why not just downgrade your lifestyle to be in a cheaper situation? Easier said than done obviously, as that initial downgrade feels like a big hit. And ofc you might have extenuat…

No, workers are supposed to be silent about it AT WORK . They can donate to whichever party they want outside of work. And, presumably, if the company is making political contribut…

I came here to ask the same, @tkiley. It seems the main benefits of your CRUT are (a) deferring your capital gains taxes until later and (b) allowing you to make deductions for cha…

Software engineers don't run these companies, executives do. Even if you have security training, that won't do you much good if leadership doesn't value security. If your company s…

In a perfect world, sure, but in the real world this would obviously be ripe for misuse. Hard to tell if you're being serious or not.

There should be fines big enough to bankrupt the companies who fail to secure data this kind of data. Is there some other way to convince them to take the issue more seriously?

Standard for investments in tech startups, no? Although I'd assume less standard for biotech startups like Theranos.

I worked for a CEO who did this once (the frequently-bombarding-the-team-with-new-ideas thing, not the expecting-applause part). He was a good guy, and talented in many areas, but …

On the surface it looks like two tribes having a petty squabble. Beneath the surface, these are two industries competing. Tech represents an existential threat to the media. The me…

This is ironic, because it's exactly the journalists who are doing what you accuse the VCs of doing. The second they get any criticism whatsoever -- whether it's on Twitter or on C…

I fail to see how any of the quotes you provided are nasty or lack self-awareness.

The implication isn't that being Chinese makes one likely to be a hacker. It's the other way around. It's that being a hacker makes it unusually likely that you're Chinese (or Russ…

Sure, but there are degrees of offensiveness, and racism is a great deal higher on that totem pole than nationalist stereotypes (archetypes, really) like "Mexican druglord," "Chine…

> This isn't really true on it's own How is this not true? Genuinely curious. > In an America where rural Asian-ethnicity people are facing discrimination because of covid being ca…

You're incorrect. Chinese is a nationality, not a race, which means this isn't racism. An accurate description would be that this is stereotyping on the basis of nationality. As su…