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I'm not sure where you got the impression he was outraged on their behalf. Clearly they were ok with it, but the person's point seems to be "don't get the wrong idea that living like this is good"

This is exactly correct. Whats good about a startup is not living in a closet or getting to talk about how cool you are for living in a closet. That is exactly what is bad about the experience. Pretending it is good is roughly denial or some other similarly named vice.

Good motivation to continue security work

The only reason I've ever had not to skim was because I was asked not to. But for example at school my purpose is really to learn not to satisfy the desires of my teachers, and actually most of the time reading, taking notes, and so on doesnt help me at all. Its a much smarter and more effective strategy. Trim the fat as the great adam levine would say.

I find it obnoxious that you act like this is a philosophical issue. Philosophy I think is by and large just meaningless grandstanding. We're all out here to survive (comfortably) and anyone who says otherwise is lying (although probably not intentionally.)

Whatever you believe your philosophical purpose is, I guarentee if you take an honest critical look at it, and what actions you actually take in reality (rather than just promote) to further that goal, you'll find that its nonsense.

Skimmming is definitely not a bad thing.

This zealotry needs to stop.

You could definitely be right but I don't think I know enough to say

I think thats pretty unfair of you and it doesnt seem like thats what they were saying actually

Thats crazy rude actually.

Im sure people who are making their decisions about what they value the way you describe are not really so concerned without how much its actually costing them.

Why precisely is having the worlds largest military bad? Do you think it doesnt add any value? It seems theres a lot of people outside of America who'd like to see it shrunk for very bad reasons.

Why not keep the military and solve our problems without it? We need it to be safe now, and until we've already solved our problems, we'll still need it.

Obviously it doesn't always work well and it definitely causes problems, doesn't mean we should get rid of or even reduce it.

A lot of things you might call lies are not really lies.

c++ namespaces are so great for this. Don't know why theyre not available in most languages.

Sorry, I wasn't aware that he was openly for a muslim ban and that this was openly a muslim ban. I'm very used to people misinterpreting his words which is what I assumed was going on here.

And as far as trump supporters go I'm hardly one, but I probably fall more on that side of the spectrum.

I'm curious more generally why would somebody use Lambda at all? Surely its far more expensive than running on your own servers (or instances), no?

>Given that this was the administration's attempt to implement a ban on Muslims entering the country

This is an inflammatory comment, and not a given.

> When insane people are in power, anything is possible

Also inflammatory.

>Maybe some big attack is carried out by a radicalized Muslim from France or Sweden, and the response is to ban entries from there. I'd have called this idea absurd not too long ago, but now I consider this kind of thing a serious, if small, possibility.

This is plausible, and a good point.

Sorry to spend most of my comment criticizing your comment but I really cant stand this kind of rhetoric.

Yes I think you may be right about this, but I also honestly feel like your standards for inflammatory content are only applied in one direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831252

Heres an example of a thread where (in the second reply) I thought mikash was being inflammatory, but my expectation is that you wouldn't care! This I think highlights the "one direction" I'm trying to point out.

I wonder what action you want Ycombinator to take to satisfy your standards of solidarity? Should they leave America? Apparently (I could be wrong) its their view that remote startups are not ideal, so it seems like you suggest they either operate in undesirable circumstances or move.

Are these practices unusual?

Which countries do people suspect might be banned? I don't really expect any more than already have been.

Well he didn't do that...

So I'm barred from having an opinion because I'm not a woman? Perhaps rather than my "experience" I should have said "real life observations." Regardless, so be it, but don't expect my support if you ever end up wanting it.

Certainly possible. Another issue I have is that I regularly see good responses to these sorts of studies linked above pointing out valid flaws and yet none-the-less I'm expected to take this issue seriously. I just don't view it as a legitimate issue, not that I'm unwilling to.

While you see it as a historical truth this is something that is patently false in my daily life. Sorry I don't substitute historical truth for modern truth! I don't deny the existence of sexism.

Itd be nice to have my own project like this

I bet this has something to do with the fact (or so I'm told) that MD5 is broken.

When you put it that way im not sure I understand it anymore lol

The CIA could surely filll in the gaps if they wanted to, at the very least through leaks to any of the media organizations that would like to see them succeed.

Any other rezson to disagree? This is literally the only reason to believe in your position over another