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Comment · 1 month ago
Triumph of the nerds is the reason I work in high tech. RIP to a legend.
Comment · 2 years ago
Dumb guy question: why does the US government not offer all citizens a bank account? Is there some constitutional reason against it?
Comment · 3 years ago
I also don't believe the people that say they want a simple tax code. This is the same country that loves coupons, discounts and promo codes. You really think they're gonna give up the tax breaks in the name of elegance and simplicity?
Comment · 4 years ago
Fair enough, but I don't think I'm saying anything that hasn't already been pretty abundantly documented over the last several years.
Comment · 4 years ago
Correct. Absolutely devastating to small business owners.

I've heard stories that SF is so inundated with car theft that it has created a portal that automatically approves car break in claims for insurance.

Comment · 4 years ago
San Francisco has its heart in the right place and is struggling to grapple with the reality that lax drug laws invites the wrong kind of people to the city.
Comment · 4 years ago
The OP-1 has been the single most inspiring tool I've had in a decade. Every other sampler I've bought has always failed to reliably draw me in.

There is no putting a price on creativity. Sure, the competition can compete on specs and price, but they never seem to get me to want to turn them on like the OP-1.

Just my opinion of course. But it is already a classic at this point and is deserving of respect.

Comment · 5 years ago
Prop 47 misled the public and needs to be repealed.
Comment · 6 years ago
Reminds me of this quote from Michael S. Malone in The Valley of Heart's Delight (2002)

> When will it end? I knowingly predicted Silicon Valley's imminent demise in 1980, 1985, 1989, and 1994. Eventually, I learned my lesson. The rest of the media world obviously has not--regularly indulging in yet another paroxysm of features about how the Valley is losing its crown to Austin, Orange County, Bangalore, even Boise.

> Perhaps. All I know is just months after the last time I predicted the Valley's end, I found myself regularly having lunch in a Chinese restuartant in Campbell with two young entrepreneurs... The company they were building was called Ebay.

Comment · 6 years ago
Wish comparable supported all of the compare operators. Otherwise, this looks like a nice design by the Go team!
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
At what point does the end user feel accountability for giving a free service all of their information? I get that they employ various unsavory tactics (especially on mobile), but remember that this _is_ the Internet after all.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sure! At least it would be a clear, defined system.
Comment · 8 years ago
Apologies, I must have worded that too vaguely. I meant the state should minimally pay people the amount they believe to be a livable wage.

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