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Re:Tumblr’s stumbles under Yahoo on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:17PM (#11918588)
Tumblr deserves it. The format encourages one-up-manship that leads toward every escalating victimization and identity crises in its users.
Re:Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video] on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:09PM (#11871979)
The answer is yes.
Re:The app boom is over on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:21PM (#11871271)
Providing value to people will never be over.
Read books. They often contain anecdotes like that.
Re:Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:51PM (#11871026)
VR solves that.
Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:47PM (#11809001)
The idea is that we will develop such stunning abundance that living costs will be very inexpensive and a basic income will be a manageable cost for the government.
Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:39PM (#11808924)
It can be.
Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:37PM (#11808910)
Not if we use cryptocurrency.
Re:Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:07PM (#11780634)
I use Bitbar to show my RescueTime productivity pulse in my menubar. Pretty handy if you ask me!
Leadership is important. There's a reason that all successful businesses follow certain structures and processes.
Re:Nate Silver Unloads on The New York Times on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:56AM (#11691117)
Silver got lucky a couple times with predictions and people believe everything he and his company says now. Now that they have clout, they use their predictions to push an agenda, which is why their predictions are so innaccurate.
Re:Flux Electric Mopeds on Friday May 13, 2016 @10:39AM (#11690647)
I have been working on classic mopeds (with the pedals) for the last 10 years. I know everything there is to know about internal combustion mopeds. I wish I could ride a clean electric version. But the Italian-style, legs-together scooter look is just so painfully lame.

Men want to ride something sexier. This is my benchmark: http://bikevx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/featured5.jpg

There is plenty of room for batteries and a drive train on that type of bike.

Please do this Flux!

Re:Flux Electric Mopeds on Friday May 13, 2016 @10:36AM (#11690635)
Tell him to make a sexier bike. The Italian moped look is lame.

Why didn't they follow the Tesla model? Sexy high-end bike first, then move into more economy-class rides later.

If Uber drivers were classified as employees, rather than contractors, they would be owed $730,000,000 from Uber as reported by US court papers.
Re:The Rather Unsurprising Rise of Uber Airways on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:04AM (#11628825)
I hate how people always use the cognitive shortcut of dystopia.
But why?
There's a dude in India that ripped off my entire business model including branding. I have no idea what to do about that.
Re:The Only Girl at Her Science Camp on Saturday March 26, 2016 @03:30PM (#11367052)
She's going to have nerds falling all over to help her achieve success. Not being in the majority isn't always a disadvantage.
Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:28PM (#11315728)
Why is hackernews so poorly maintained?
the data entry is a pain in the ass.
Re:Email newsletters are the new zines on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:43AM (#11174325)
This article is twenty years out of date.
Re:Here's what Elon Musk showed me about (extreme) success on Sunday February 21, 2016 @12:21PM (#11145375)
I tried it. It is a distraction. It is better to go deep than broad.
Re:Show HN: Tweef, Instantly share individual tweets to Facebook on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:19PM (#11142008)
What would this be called if it used Quora instead of Twitter?
Re:Ask HN: Why are comment trees not collapsible yet? on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:35PM (#11120570)
If you're on Chrome, you can use the HackerNews enhancement suite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Re:Maximum Wage on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:40PM (#10999786)
Limiting maximum wage would drive people to found their companies overseas and outsource to America.
Get rid of religiosity and give me scientific education and political decision making and we will be fine
Which resources are we running out of? The Earth is made out of the same stuff as us. It's huge.

We are not running out of resources. We may be running low on easily accessed, cheap resources.

We will adapt. New mining tech and asteroid mining will give more resources than we could use. There's accessible asteroids that have enough platinum to give each person on earth thousands of dollars. That's just one of millions. The resources will never run out.

This article reads like the rantings of someone who was well educated long ago, but has since watched daytime news every day.

The world is more peaceful than ever. You are less likely to die to violence now than at any other point in history. Medicine is better than any other point in history. As populations grow larger, they also grow older and people have fewer kids.

We aren't going to overpopulate the earth. We aren't going to run out of materials. We aren't going to destroy the environment. We aren't going to blow up the earth.

That is lazy thinking. Life has grown and expanded for billions of years. Humanity will continue growing and expanding into the future. We couldn't stop it if we tried.

Re:Hacking inclusion by customizing a Slack bot on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:55PM (#10912451)
How is publicly shaming someone for using a colloquial term inclusive?

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