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I already think that Uber and Slack are not really Silicon Valley: those are businessy companies but not really tech companies. WeWork is even taking it one level further. They sti…

Fully agree. And this is actually a well known fact. People following the rules perfectly as seen as losers in business. You are expected to break the ice with a more personal non …

Paying for books is the old model. I really believe that books should be mostly free and people should//would pay based on usefulness. I will gladly donate 200$ for a book that hel…

For what it is worth I love my local libraries. I'm able to hold any book online so as soon as I hear about a book I place a hold on it. They have most books even new ones and if n…

They are the ones selecting the "members" and they will have a huge influence on any updates or any controversial topic or potential fork. Don't fool yourself, this whole thing has…

That's the way they marketed it. They know they had to do this little concession in order to get Libra to pick up so that people would repeat tirelessly that it's not controller by…

I'm crossing my fingers that this pseudo crypto money never takes off. Having Facebook control this would be so terrible and the proof that we didn't learn anything over the last c…

I have also always wondered what would I do if I have an emergency and I only have access to internet, not to a traditional phone line. Is there even 911@police.com? or some type o…

GPS signal can get reflected on buildings ans put you off by a couple blocks. It's a well known issue in big cities with narrow streets (NYC for example)

by hacking the reward circuits of your brain with immediate interactions? The issue is that those are counterproductive in the long term. The exact same reason why people initially…

you put it better than I did in my initial post. They managed to hack that reward part of the brain with immediate interaction at the expense of deep meaningful work that require l…

Congratulation to them. I think what they did is absolutely amazing and will be seen retrospectively as one of the biggest fads of history. - They managed to disturb millions of wo…

Bolting is an ethical issue that is discussed at length in the climbing community. The ethics are very strong in Yosemite and therefore there are almost no bolts and all the climbs…

This. And committed parents. This is a lot of training and committed parents. I'm doing a lot of aid climbing myself and anyone could be good at aid climbing if enough training and…

Only because it also could potentially endanger other people. And it is legal to have a 10 year old as a passenger in a car which is what happened in this case on the climb.

driving is dangerous so it should be unlawful.

I had a friend die in Silicon Valley due to a car crash. he was wearing his safety belt too.

Aid climbing is not jumaring though. It means you use tools to get up. Most of the time the face is blank and you still need to get up painfully and add all the protections to go u…

This is a bet on the future price of the home. And a lot of simulations have shown that you will come ahead in stocks unless you are in an exceptional growing market and not moving…

I'm here to watch all the comments about "child endangerment" which are coming straight from American helicopter parent culture. I'm really shocked at how most parents want the saf…

you should search what "opportunity cost" means. The market is highly inflated compared to other investments because people are blindly buying without thinking at almost any stupid…

Yes, Home ownership is seen as the pinnacle of social status. This is stupid and people should rethink this preconceived notion. In the bay area for example it doesn't make ANY sen…

this whole leveling thing is very sad. It makes you realize you are simply a number: a small pawn that falls into a predefined category and that will do a predefined job without to…

Not sure if you are being sarcastic but they still need to keep their algorithm secret so client side wouldn't work.

Sure. Depends which VP position you end up getting. And even so, I would say that most VPs at VMWare are a more "prestigious" and "important" position than the COO of Github (which…