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Even Kinder Surprise is banned in the US!

Maybe not China, but the thought that the US is somehow "free-er" than the rest of the world (yes, including Russia) is false. People in Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, UK, Japan are probably as free as people in the US, if not more.

I completely agree with everything you said. I strongly oppose drones as well, and I know all about them. I was not defending the US or the CIA. I always thought the DoD runs the drones operation. I did not know however (or just did not make the connection) that the operatives are members of the CIA as well. But now I do know :)

There's really no better. They're all worse than each other.

Of course I do :) I've been living in the US for 4 years now. Some of my best friends are American. Regular people are just regular people, just like me and you and most [1] people reading this.

[1] Thanks to Snowden, I can confidently write most and not maybe

> If anybody looks stupid, it's clearly the US Government.

Not really. What can they really do? Usually, they'd bully countries into submission. Hong Kong proved it does not bow down to the US. They also cannot really kidnap him or anything like that. It's way too public at this point, and as "terrible" the CIA sometimes is, they're not a bunch of murdering assholes like the Mossad.

We are all sick of the US acting like the big boss around the world. +1 to Hong Kong, Russia and the rest giving it the big middle finger.

Cinema stabilisation does not work on iPhone 4S.

It does not work

Why is everyone hating on Feedly

Neither Android nor WP8 get priority for obvious reasons. Cutting edge apps? iOS.

On my 4S, it's pretty slow (mine was a little slow on iOS 6). Battery life is pretty much the same.

Probably even a bigger risk when the UI is completely different.

I agree. I'm starting to look at Balanced differently now.

First:

> I’ve filtered through resumes and listened to coworkers...

and then...

> ... which is why we don’t ask for resumes.

I am confused.

You said you need identification from me..

Cool. What kind of identification? So can I install Ruby and Sinatra?

- Do you have email server? - Can I SSH into the hosting? - Will you run out of business in the next year or so :)?

Completely agree. One must understand that many of the laws are purely absurd and many crimes exaggerated.

Maybe. Depends on the felony and the nature of the crime. I'd probably say no to sexual and violent crimes and some non-violent crimes (fraud, theft). Not to be judgemental, but some people really do have physiological issues. Not everyone, but it's hard to pinpoint from a few job interviews. I'd consider it though if I can get some guarantees (but lawyers struggle with this all the time, no?).

In the US I've noticed, some felonies are really nonsense and it's just an over-law'ed system all together. For those, I would probably hire.

Cut the math for now, on what basis are you valued at $30 million? You said it yourself, out of thin air.

If you are not making profit, still in stealth-mode and have no clients, sorry to break it to you but it's worth...: $0.

Best book for entrepreneurship: none. You don't learn "entrepreneurship". You experience it.

If you're already kicking the ball (instead of reading books on how to kick a ball), read about anything but "entrepreneurship" :)

I recently unsubscribed from most big tech blogs because all they write about is "X ways to become a better entrepreneur" and all that nonsense.

Ruby is just beautiful. I learnt Python and Ruby last year, and even though they're both really good, I find Ruby's syntax hard to resist.

Metaprogramming is also great (others have commented about that)

I don't think we know how we "think" yet :)

Now I appreciate Ruby symbols 10x more.

I can show you 10 studies to counter each study you just posted, so all these "studies" are useless. At the end of the day, 11,000 people are dying in the US per year vs. only tens or hundreds in other countries where they have proper gun laws. I know the US population is higher, so let's take it by ratio: the rate per 100,000 population per year in the US is 10.20. The US ranks 57 in the world. In the UK, the rate is 0.25, and they rank 5. Japan ranks 1st with a rate of 0.07. It doesn't look like you care about ranking high with the rest of the civil societies in the world. I frankly couldn't care less about the "right to bear arms". A right made in the 1700's when militias were there to fight the British. You don't realise we're 300 years ahead now, do you?

And yes, I did make up my mind a long time ago. I simply can't wrap my head around two things: guns & death penalty. To me, these are primitive issues that if we're really a civil society, we really shouldn't be discussing them in 2013.

I think we should end the argument. A HN discussion will not stop you from carrying a concealed weapon, nor will it alter my views.

Do you actually believe this? This makes me laugh... I think we need a psychological study to see what is this filthy obsession with guns people have here in the US.

I wonder if you realise city-wide laws don't matter: you can drive 30 minutes from DC in Virginia and get a rifle...

I agree, but 11,000 people dying a year sounds like an actual threat/risk to me. Your list can be modified to: heart disease, cancer, public debt, guns, etc.

You sound like a tea party Republican. Of course the government has to jump in when a 3D gun is being printed, whether it's safe or not!