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Constant recreation may be the ultimate purpose of humanity.

Learn the social cues. People won’t say when they are busy. They might not ask you questions back, or keep doing what they do.

They are not allowing other marketplaces, or creators themselves, to run apps on Apple devices directly.

Karp is a philosopher by training that has fallen into ideological blindness. He claims that he is on the right side of history. Democracies need Palantir badly.

He preaches his views to his employees. No one in his flock seems to wonder what would happen if their tools were to be used against democracy.

Liquidation preferences may have multiples. A 3x liquidation preference would have erased most gains for anyone who didn’t raise in the last round, employees and founders included.

True. I myself try to read articles without looking up the authors.

It is hard though. When someone makes an extraordinary claim I feel the urge to look them up. It is a shortcut to some legitimacy to that claim.

Nagel's point is that he could not know what it was like to be a bat.

It takes fresh minds not to think about the collective impact of their actions.

What policies post World War II have had eugenic effects on the population?

The issues are two-fold

1- the territorial split between gendarmerie/police within the French territory

2- the fact the gendarmes for police work report to the Ministry of Defense.

If one had to design the police system from crash, they would likely merge police and gendarmes for police work.

I have always found confusing the existence of the gendarmes. They are indeed a vestigial force of the XIXth century, and should be transformed into a regular police force.

What if Tim was the coding agent?

Cannot come soon enough. Companies like Voodoo Games have made a killing scamming gullible people with no oversight.

Some have been tortured.

Is there any evidence of this?

Depending on the number of applicants and job posts, it may be hard to prove that the person in company A discriminates.

Ironically the post is affected by Hacker News flame-war detection system.

This is a good analysis.

About #2 (disincentivize charter education): parents created charter schools because they disagreed on the choices that was made for them in public education. It is very hard to fight this, as 1- they see a huge difference in test results 2- they want to give their children the best chances in life.

Are you referring to the "Joint WHO-China Study"?

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-...

This is an apt description of how things are, sadly. And it all starts at the crib when parents teach their children blind obedience.

The Hiroshima museum, while advocating for a nuclear free world, has an interesting take on why the US dropped the bomb on them.

According to them, the US dropped the bomb because they wanted to show their strengths against the Soviets. It makes little to no mention of the bloody battles in the Pacific.

He has maintained iron clad control over Automattic, WordPress, and WordPress.org. How? By insisting on securing the proxy votes from investors. Investors — what on earth were you thinking?

There is something to say about corporate governance. When a CEO can actively harm the company without risking being fired, the role of the board has failed.

This will help the case of VCs to get board seats.

I found this article that explains that the arrest warrant was only to be activated if Pavel was on the French territory.

(French) https://www.sudouest.fr/economie/reseaux-sociaux/le-patron-d...

It could have been a warrant that was not communicated to Durov himself. This would have helped to catch him by surprise.

These tests are often done by people with a high image of the charge. Despite all the research showing futility, they are used in startups time and time again. They do go away with experience.

Not debating the merits of this case.

There are many regulations that slightly inconvenience the many, to address the problems of a few. Individually these cases are benign. As a group they compound complexity.

Each new reform should be evaluated on both its benefits and the burden that it brings.

As citizen in France, we also had an old democracy. Under Nazi Germany occupation it took no time for the ruling party to oppress ennemies of the state. Jews were hunted down using the National n database of names and addresses.

I do view technology as a double edged sword for the freedom of the people.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that I am an Anthropocene partisan.

It would have helped if the author had mentioned this at the beginning of the article. Or they had let someone neutral write the article entirely.

Does YC publish active users count?

In its absence one can use public metrics like active commenters count.

Company CEO says Company product will be very important.

For having set up businesses on both sides, Europe was more expensive in time wasted in paperwork. There is also a lot of old rules and weird fiscal policies. In the US setting up and running a business was relatively a breeze.

The epilogue of The Road shows its purpose. Make us appreciative of today’s nature beauty.