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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:05PM (#24523170)
I hope that RBG's replacement will be selected and sworn after Inauguration Day – but I have a chilling feeling that it will happen before.
Airbnb might just IPO in time before the first batch of RSUs expire later this year.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/technology/airbnb-employe...

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Early-AirBnB-Employees-IPO-NB...

Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:06AM (#18425212)
Same with Sziget Festival in Budapest!
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:09PM (#18240457)
Fisher-Yates shuffle. An elegant and surprisingly intuitive O(n) algorithm that doesn't take up extra memory.
Re:I've just learned Rust and I think I'm in love on Saturday March 31, 2018 @12:16AM (#16721692)
It's also present in Elixir!
To add onto this, college meme groups on Facebook have largely replaced Yik Yak's niche in the past year or so. And those don't require millions in VC funding!
Re:Pets miss meals after auto-feeding app PetNet glitches on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @01:52AM (#12259749)
So if you use this and the servers go down or your WiFi doesn't work or whatever else malfunctions, your pet starves? Oof, that's rough. This reminds me of the Internet of Shit Twitter account. They would love this.
I think if he hadn't gone on his moral high-horse and ranted about "free market societies" and "revolutions" he would've avoided much of the controversy. I sympathized with his actual grievances, but not his armchair ranting in the second half of his article.