31reasons

Give them a break. Based on how much it cost to buy a house in the Bay Area, I don't blame them. /s

Thats exactly what $1 apps do in the App Store, no?

Depends on what contracting work you are doing. The average web/mobile dev can't charge that much anywhere in the US. Company that I work for itself (an app dev company) does not charge more than $120/hour/dev to their SF clients.

Title should be this:

"An always listening device that record all your private conversations, that may or may not have been compromised (or will be compromised) by the private and government entities for surveillance and profit purposes has been the best selling product in the USA (where people refuse to give-up rights to own guns because they don't trust the government)"

I think the main feature of Functional programming is not avoiding side effects but abstraction. You can compose different kinds of powerful abstractions and programmers are free to choose their "language" of abstractions, compared to "X Oriented" languages that forces programmer to think in certain terms and limits in ways you can create layers of abstractions.

So basically it will replace all heuristics/greedy optimization algorithms. I am wondering if ML can come up with better sorting algorithms, or I guess when you can use ML for end strategy of optimization you don't have to sort!

Shouldn't their investments already been moved to Bonds/Money markets? At 85, if you have to worry about stock market, you are doing it wrong.

I feel like we need a permanent solution to this so that we don't have to panic and raise awareness every year. If we create a fund to protect Net Neutrality and "out-lobby" the ISPs in Washington would be great. If we just donate 10% of our internet bill every month we can definitely become a force they can't out-lobby without going bankrupt.

>> The mining has been controlled by China for years.

Can you elaborate on that? Afaik the very advantage of Bitcoin is that no single entity can control it.

I wonder if the gravitation waves stretches the Space-time in such a way that it takes 2 seconds longer for the photons of GRB to travel "on top of it" and reach earth.

I think Facebook should not be allowed to advertise anything other than commercial products/services. It should not be a platform for propaganda.

No amount of salary will give you clean air and tidy streets. Some people will just prefer that as part of their package. But I guess few months / years of experience won't hurt westerners.

I think they should just make any cash transactions more than 1000 rupees illegal.