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> Why should the power of your vote depend on where you choose to lay your head down at night?

Because it turns out that has a very strong effect on the power of your vote :)

The electoral college exists to balance the voices of citizens in cities vs. "the country." It checks the power of highly dense populations who are more likely to vote for pro-city federal policies, so the needs of those in "the country" are not ignored.

I didn't support Trump and live in a super-blue city, but when the EC was explained to me this way, it made sense. I don't want to see the US further turn into a place where you can only succeed if you live in a city.

Because, no matter what their shiny marketing materials may tell you, SV is a purely profit driven machine where only money is sacred. It is no different from the banking, health care or consumer goods companies that have been extracting wealth from our society at any cost. Sure, there might be some marginal trickle-down benefits, but be certain that has little to do with their actual goals.

Locally-grown food is generally more expensive in these areas because smaller local farms do not enjoy the same advantage of economy of scale that global distributors do.

Yep. It's bad. The A to JFK is also a poor experience.

I've misread the tone of a few HN posts lately ... this is sarcasm, right?

> Why do US citizens tolerate spending a disproportionate amount of their financial resources on their military?

Because most of us are too ignorant to know better, and those of us that do are trapped by a de-facto two party system that is more interested in maintaining its own power via the status quo than representing the will of its constituency (for example, DWS and the DNC).

It's actually not the truth at all, it's your opinion. Your comment contains theory and pop psychology popular in the West.

But it is neither scientific, nor evidence-based, and many Eastern cultures do not view mating or courtship in the same way you do.

I find this to be a very sad comment.

Life, and love, is far more than an exercise in evolutionary psychology.

Poor people do not have more children because of "boredom." They have more children because they are less educated and because of higher infant mortality rates.

Using Steven Cohen as an example only hurts your argument. His success has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with insider trading.

Being born in the USA is not a requirement for getting a job as a software engineer in the USA. It's hard, but not impossible at all.

Good thing Bill Gates didn't follow this advice or he might be a nurse instead of starting the Gates Foundation!

Why so dismissive? Your opinion is also colored by your experience and preferences, and is no more valid than his.

Also, there is no requirement that meat substitutes be indistinguishable from meat to be considered edible.

The seller is rightfully entitled in this case. eBay is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts — they are charging the seller a fee for conducting a sale on their platform. Given the fee, the seller has the right to expect reasonable service.

Can you tell us a bit more please? Did you essentially roll your own internal AdWords? How do you manage customers, campaigns, tracking, payments, etc.?

You're really sure of nothing. Turkey is neither Arab nor does it have its own Facebook equivalent.

Incredulity doesn't pass as evidence around here.

> Why is Israel being criticized of this when any other country including the UK, France, Germany, Iran, Egypt are doing the same?

Because Israel could not do five percent of the things they are doing without the massive amount of military and financial welfare and protection they receive from the USA. The other countries you list do not have that luxury to nearly the same extent.

What's your definition of freedom? Freedom to make major business decisions or freedom from obligations and responsibilities?

Running your own thing rarely means more free time than if you were working as a tech cog -- it often means much less free time.

Honest question, why would you call an Uber to LGA? LGA has massive lines of taxis waiting to take you home. You'd easily get a cab in less than twenty minutes that is legally required to take you to your location.

goread.io is a Google Reader clone.

Also known as design by committee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee

Why?

Bill Nguyen is best known as the founder of Color, a much hyped then subsequently much lampooned photo app that failed rather conspicuously under the weight of its own PR, a la Cuil.

Based on the Wikipedia article, he apparently had a long track record of multiple impressive successes prior to Color, although none are nearly as well known.

Hence the parent's argument that Bill Ngyuen's life is an illustration of the true nature of the world: you can be successful 100 times, but if you fail once, it is only the failure that is remembered.

This is wonderful. Looking forward to reading this in the future.

One suggestion to improve readability: use text-align: left instead of text-align: justify on the body text.

Aren't you concerned about allowing your servers to have access to the repo?

Anyone have an idea why they would use MySQL over PostgreSQL?

This isn't true. I think you need to expand your horizons beyond the tech world :) I suspect if you ask someone outside of the tech world in the US, they'll tell you Facebook. Outside of the US: WhatsApp.

Twitter: 500M tweets per day https://about.twitter.com/company

WhatsApp: 13B messages per day http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/06/whatsapp-now-has-700m-user...

Facebook + FB Messenger - WhatsApp: ~30B messages per day http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/facebook-voip-not-facebook-...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned felt tip pens as an alternative to fountain pens.

The Paper Mate medium point felt tip pen is my favorite writing tool. It provides a good-looking and effortless stroke and you can buy them pretty much anywhere.

I have no experience with this but I assume they would just go off of everything except GPA. SAT / ACT / AP scores, extra curriculars, personal projects and achievements, and essays.