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We actually have no idea. It is entirely possible but its unclear at this point: "To our knowledge, there are no relevant study in humans on carcinogenic effects from pure nicotine…

I think my overall argument was that we have barely studied studied e-cigarettes so OP's assertion "Vaping has been pretty well studied (except for the flavorings" is false. You ar…

Doing a review of the current research isn't valuable for the reasons I outlined: overall research is immutare so an overall review isn't going to be that insightful right now. Her…

This is incorrect. E cigarettes are still in a very early stage of research. My partner works at one of the leading institutes in tobacco research and they are literally just kicki…

I think your job is to put money in companies with low valuations that EXIT with high valuations. Your investors won't give a crap if you do a good job of finding unicorns that eve…

I think the basics of it (i.e. recognizing n vs n^2 vs exponential) is important for back end developers. After a few years of doing back end I've definitely had to have awareness …

I am a bootcamp grad with several years of experience now. I agree with the article that the two of the weakest areas for bootcamp grads are data structures and algorithms. However…

I don't think this is true; I come from a caste that is known for being scholars and hence had much better knowledge of imperialist languages (English, French, Urdu, etc.) than Bra…

Thanks for answering the previous person's questions; your answers were very helpful. Can you talk about how long it takes most people to reach staff level (or how long it took you…

This kind of behavior is why I recently steered a friend to a Roku. With any of the streaming devices (Amazon, Google, Apple) you risk losing out due to dueling between the major t…

If people cared about affordable housing, why are there protests again projects which are 100% affordable housing? You can see the hypocrisy here: https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/6/1…

Even 100% affordable housing gets objected to: https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/6/13189882/1296-shotwell-affor... To be honest, people like to extol the virtues of Bay Area liberalism…

Avoid saying the words "changing the world" or any other bullshit buzzword that deceptively gives your work a nobler, tone than it deserves. Trust me, if you are changing the world…

I find this to be very helpful. Any chance you can keep historical records so we can see trends?

Yes agreed. dang can we get a comment at the top of the "Who is hiring thread?" to please avoid these kind of comments?

cool model! is the salary half of a normal job or less than that?

A startup, let's say company A, I used to work at did something very similar. I told the CEO that I knew another startup was shutting down, let's call it company B. Company A decid…

This is not a special purpose account. You can see that I've used it to comment on many threads.

Most discussions are best as one-offs and there isn't much substance in the Who's is Hiring threads either. Maybe the team should think of a small UI change to distinguish official…

It's sad that we are losing the monthly tag from dang. Also I tried making this a monthly thing but then one of my aliases got shadow banned. So we will probably have to organicall…

I'm pretty confused on the location info on the 1st line. Are engineering roles in Santa Clara, San Francisco, Toronto, Sacramento, or Baltimore?

can you elaborate more?

In usual fashion, Microsoft acquired Wunderlist in 2015 and has decided to sunset Wunderlist for the successor To-Do. (http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-wunderlist-successor-…

Every HN hiring thread has someone comment on how low salaries sound for a specific country they are not from. Can we stop dis-incentivizing employers to be transparent about their…