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The problem is that we have no real journalism anymore. Most journalists now are keyboard warriors that just take hearsay and rumors they heard on Twitter and create a story out of it. If they don't do it, someone else will and it takes too much time to actually investigate it properly.

With the viral nature of social media, false stories become fact really quickly.

I feel like Stephen Glass (the journalist that faked all of those news stories in the 90s while working for the New Republic) wouldn't even get fired if it happened now.

I'm all for the freedom of the press, but there needs to be consequences for completely false stories that could actually hurt someone's livelihood.

Trump has already said in many cases that he wants to leave it up to the states, rather than the federal government. I don't see this as being any different.

At this point, most people should be using a password manager. All of my passwords are the longest the site will allow (usually 64 random letter, number, and symbols).

In addition to this, 2FA (non-SMS) should be enabled where available (it's supported on most important sites now like Hosting, Paypal, many banks).

I seriously doubt they are skimming. It's most likely the company that is actually doing the currency exchange that is overcharging AirBnB and they are pushing the cost onto the end user.

Haven't there been enough click-baity, hyperbolic articles about Trump on HN?

Amazon deserves to get broken up. Jeff Bezos is abusing Amazon's position as a monopoly. Sellers regularly get banned without any reason given (and support is an automated response). Workers are subjected to deplorable conditions, long hours, and easily fired.

"And then, the presidential candidate of the Republican party got up on a stage and did this"

This was debunked:

Trump making fun of Ted Cruz using the same gestures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4604reEqk0&feature=youtu.be

The actual reporter he supposedly made fun of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUuXQ443fA&feature=youtu.be

He doesn't talk or act like this at all.

This is more hyperbole used to destroy Trump. I don't even agree with a lot of what Trump says, but I'm just tired of fake news stories being presented to us as fact.

I thought that after the election the media would stand down and admit what they did was wrong. Instead, they are continuing with the lies.

This propaganda is what's causing the hysteria we see today where people actually fear for their lives. The media needs to be held accountable.

I think it would 'bloom' in any world, regardless of the person that is currently president. We live in a world where privacy rights are being slowly taken away.

One of the problems we face is that many people in the new generation give out all of their private information to the world via tweets and Facebook posts. They see no need to actually protect something they are freely giving out anyway.

"We’re not paid to write code, we’re paid to add value (or reduce cost) to the business"

I'm curious to know how many companies Brian has worked for as a software engineer. The majority of the places where I've worked just want you to code. They don't really care about adding value and just want the job done as quickly as possible so customers aren't upset (usually because the sales team promised a feature that should take 2 months in 2 weeks).

It's the main reason I quit and started my own company. I was tired of getting into battles with management over the well-being of their own code base and I was tried of being forced to write terrible and hacky code.

"Why do you assume the lack of presence implies women in tech are missing technical skills?"

I don't think women in tech are missing technical skills. I think there are less women in tech..period.

There are less women majoring in tech/science related fields for starters:

http://readwrite.com/2014/09/02/women-in-computer-science-wh...

"Typically the organizers of the conference are men and they naturally reach out to their networks to find speakers"

Is this still a thing? My network contains men and women of all races. I know many professionals in and out of tech and I don't know anyone that excludes someone from their network because of their gender.

"Happily, DevelopHer has created a fantastic list."

These sorts of lists and organizations will only push us further behind in terms of equality. 'Equality' doesn't mean choosing one gender or race over another and this is exactly what organizations like this are doing.

"Without them there people jump to conclusions similar to the ones you have jumped to"

Who is jumping to conclusions? I look at statistics and use science, rather than emotion and assumptions. Are we also to believe that biology jobs and majors are dominated by women because of sexism?

How do you actually do this without being biased yourself? One person's reality is another person's bias.