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What are you replacing gmail with?

Why? Your phone number is public, but you wouldn't be happy if the lat/long of your phone during various times of the day is public, right?

Not referring to "grit your teeth and be fake polite" which I've noticed many people do. But genuinely be calm (when production systems go down and customers are yelling, for examp…

From my limited research Germany and Australia seem good, though it doesn't seem easy in Germany if you want to become a citizen. With more and more job losses and automation, I th…

It is beyond absurd. It is a lose-lose situation for end users - if we read each line of every EULA, thats all we would be doing all day. If we don't, then we accept very unfriendl…

But there is a difference between promoting a product vs shifting blame, isn't it?

Reporters could send in the basic details of a traffic accident and would get in return a complete article to print the next day. These articles, printed widely, shifted the blame …

India was a collection of many many smaller kingdoms when the British came to the scene. There was a whole bunch of infighting and backstabbing going on which the British happily e…

I was thinking the same. Many links on the page are behind a paywall (ex: https://www.statista.com/statistics/225342/export-value-of-b... ) Curious on kind of people who use this, …

Does anyone know where CMC gets the circulation numbers?

Here is an experiment that seems to have gone well (banning outdoor advertising) https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

presence of Caucasians and males was mocked with ‘boos’ during companywide weekly meetings. What does this even mean? People booed simply because they were white and male? I honest…

My experience is similar to your parent comment - I've never been able to check into a hotel without showing photo ID (I never paid cash btw, always credit card, always in advance …

One of the most striking columns in that list is the "Government Spending" column. It is red all over the place, including top two in the list - Taiwan and Australia!

They sent me a bill for over $900. For taking a picture, and giving me tylenol and an ace bandage. That is awful :( Imagine someone making minimum wage. 900$ is huge for most peopl…

I've seen this mentioned multiple times here. Did you go to any of the retreats? Could you share a bit more info, about your experience?

This blog is awesome. Some of the entries are eye opening and scary - like this one https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-... Is there anything like this for …

Any specific projects you are planning to make? Also, what resources are you using to learn?

This might be true in law, medicine etc, not necessarily software. Sure, there are some big companies that will filter resumes based on degrees, but there are tons of companies tha…

It has already happened with kids - how many men hesitate to become teachers? Even though there are lots of men who want to teach and are good at teaching?

Any favorite resources you use to learn?

It seems most of the convo around blockchain is crypto currency. What are some other use cases? Is it as revolutionary as it sounds?

It's intentionally designed so that good people can sometimes do something unpopular in the public interest. Except in this case, it is not in public interest

Where can one get historical and current prices of all crypto currencies as a downloadable dataset, even for commercial use?