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By using Indian workers you are helping to provide a living wage for people who really need it, not just for “beer money”.

Is paying money all it takes to speak at a conference? And does it really bring in 10x-100x ROI? I’m skeptical about that part and details were nebulous.

I feel like people don’t just downvote you once and move on, I feel that they go into your whole history and just downvote you as much as they can to wound your reputation, then they tell their friends. Sickening.

HN has been getting a lot of coordinated down votes lately.

Someone should make a twitter clone in this NES style. Might be more peaceful and fun to read. Good exercise for a CS student just starting out.

It’s unfortunate that the more diverse an organization becomes the more drama it seems to invite.

No one said GDPR was well thought out.

I was mostly referring to here in California, but it would also apply to: Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.

If you remove the ability for people to spend money on worthless things, they will only have money to spend on useful things, and thus drive up inflation.

If you don’t consent to being recorded, they are required to serve you in an unrecorded line. And if they cannot, then you have been denied service. And if you’re denied service, you cannot cancel. So run the chargeback.

Are selfless acts the only possible good acts?

Opinions of Microsoft have been changing in the past few years and I think they will continue to change in a positive way in the next few years. The stock is a good buy.

Way too many developers are shocked to learn that Postgres has an existing Pub/Sub system using LISTEN and NOTIFY. Kind of makes some people rethink their stack.

How many users do you go after per month?

Because I’ve done it a few times and nothing happened.

In practice this never happens. I wouldn’t worry about this unless it has happened to you at least once.

How can you feel safe knowing your country’s only response for an attack is a nuclear bomb?

I wonder if VR gambling machines might provide a better gambling experience for gamblers while also preventing places from filling up with junky and bulky machines, and probably allow for more players too within the same amount of space.

How are the shutdown’s effects on the economy being measured? Where did they come up with 0.1% loss every 2 weeks?

No he’s not? I didn’t find that post particularly sarcastic, caffeine is just a chemical. If all you care about is getting a quick fix all the extra taste and ceremony has no added value.

There’s always ways to get around being banned.

I find that the only scenario that Airbnb still comes in handy for is when you want to book a large place for a group of 8 people or more to stay together.

WeWork’s customers are also maintaining their own curated narrative. Many of them don’t actually care about ideology, they just want a hip co-working space where they can drink beer and socialize with other startups and “crush it” everyday.

It’s only fitting that the owner would also be full of shit.

How would you better engineer this instead for it to actually last 55 million years?

Edit: For the defeatists, I meant if you had access to all the Earth's resources and the full effort of mankind.

And it’s also the reason why some people love engineers and HN. It’s great to discuss things with people who know how to speak with precision as opposed to childish hyperbole.

As you get older, and your time becomes short, you're not going to want to retire to some completely foreign place you've never lived in. You will want to be close to people that matter to you, and enjoy the comfort of familiar things. Exploring new things becomes less appealing as you age. Exploration is for the youth.

Part of the charm about the early days of the internet for me was that I was a child and I had child-like logic about how things worked.

My view of the internet was very skeuomorphic. Websites were like "places" and by riding the web-rings I felt like I was surfing through cyberspace. When I would come across new information I would store it in my bookmarks which I thought of as a sort of inventory. If I came across a small tribe on some random internet forum somewhere I might share some of my best links with them to win them over. If I found a guest book I would sign it as a way of planting my flag.

I viewed anyone who actually "owned" a website to be something like a God, a MASTER of the web. I also viewed hackers as very dangerous people, where if they wanted to, they could blow up my computer in my face.

They want to believe.

Maybe the advice should be to never express a feeling to someone who will shame you for it. At least then you know it is possible.