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Nature has endowed mankind with diverse faculties, fallible reason and variable fortune, and so in a free society there will by necessity be "winners" and "losers". Those of you wh…

Frankly there is no need to keep beating the drum about these startups. This is at least the 4th article about the parking apps on HN's front page in the last couple weeks. It's al…

Today's tally: 9 It crossed the line quite a while back, but I'm not particularly interested in taking a principled stand here. I'm just curious as to how they are doing this.

Not as far as I'm aware.

I'm getting "spammed" by barclay's bank to get me to pay off ~$200 balance. I could easily pay it, but the reason I've left this amount unpaid was to understand a bit about how the…

In my view, it's mind-boggling to see Newsweek staunchly defending it's assertion by essentially saying "we can't prove it isn't him". If there are any good reasons why this guy is…

It might actually be great publicity. Watsi is awesome, but not well known amongst the general populace (who are probably far more likely to donate to dubious organizations like th…

Even if this were true, even heavy pot smokers inhale far less plant material than your average cigarette smokers.

What we are seeing here brings to light an inconvenient truth: you simply cannot legislate away obnoxious social behavior. As long as I remember, Craigslist has prohibited discrimi…

> salaries would likely fall without them The median salary would likely fall, the mean would likely rise (or stay around the same) but the very top salaries would rise dramaticall…

1. Absolutely, they do target these people, particularly through internships which are essentially recruiting tools. The BigCo advantage is that any decent salary will seem like a …

This conduct is obviously despicable, though certainly not out-of-character for Steve Jobs (all due respect for his talents). However, I generally believe this will resolve (and ha…

They could be , it's all relative of course. The most affected engineers in this case were likely the cream of the crop. It's in a way analogous to professional sports, where (if s…

For the sake of argument, suppose this is right after the 1st summer founders program or right after the talk you gave at Harvard, whichever is more interesting.

Yeah, in this case it should be Yelp's job to filter out fake reviews. Yelp should foot the bill for operations like this or for engineers to write better algorithms.

Separately, Jimmy Wales reportedly said that 0.7% of Wikipedia's users have made 50% of all Wikipedia edits and 1.8% of users have written more than 72% of all articles, and he was…

A bunch of the "unconnected" companies (as well as the connected ones) are in fact y-combinator companies. Seems odd that they missed such an obvious (and well-publicized) network.…

My parents' raised me to be a helpful person, and I've always tried to help others' when asked. It's worked out well .. I feel good doing this and learn from the experience. I'm a …