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I think the market of employee retention is ripe for disruption with innovations like these.

How could I not think of that! Hiring a kind of SJW-ey guy to write Rust docs is just a small step in the direction of clear-text passwords and the removal of HTTPS from Firefox. Better switch to Gnome Web, then.

Buildings take time to build, do I have to make that clear?

Also, it's not about ethnic make up, it's about culture and identity. The neighborhood can go in a wildly different direction, and that's what people are lamenting, specially if it's culture-producing centers (let's admit it, the most that tech nerds produce are open source libraries for other tech nerds to consume). Anyway, urban centers come and go, SF's death will be a sad thing, but it happens all the time.

Old buildings have to be demolished and new ones built, which may not be in the range of the former tenants. Old residents have to leave either way, which is both the problem itself and the root of other ones.

Anyway, it's the mutation of a city into another one, there are too many variables. Higher density sounds appealing but it may bring other problems, and the old residents end up displaced anyway. It's not going to be pretty, and the result is not going to be the San Francisco everyone loves, but well... it's not my city so why do I care.

Edit: quite a few edits

Gentrification would still exist as the previous owners and renters would be forced to live in the perifery of their towns, as newcomers would settle in their neighborhoods.

Those would be chemical weapons. Those can't be used, because they are inhumane.

Can we use this as an excuse to drop Node.js, please?

After all, Javascript was created by a homophobe. We should use a more minorities-friendly language and not encourage the use of problematic technologies made by bigots.

Edit: also, someone claimed that a lead maintainer of the Linux kernel is a rape apologist. That's good enough to drop Linux, right?

All the reflection and abuse of mixins are pretty worthy of hate.

Scale.

And why, even while being an atheist, would I accept utilitarianism over Jesus Christ in this case?

You've got it backwards. In the Glorious Hacker News Golden Age that people sometimes speak of, Hacker News tended to gravitate towards pure-market solutions, deny the existence or relevance of social issues that don't affect white middle class men (i.e. everything but ageism in tech), and gave weight to Eliezer Yudkowsky's Bayesian equation-driven morality, and everything else that looked and sounded scientific (imagine how many old-HN readers would be guzzling Soylent now).

The HN readership had lots in common with LessWrong, but they were diluted and displaced by people who don't share their same, ahem, qualities.

You must concede that they are particularly prevalent in this community, and that PG's essays are notorious for their abundance of footnotes.

Oh, and they are used as a substitute for the lack of hyperlink markup in HN, which makes them a necessity when linking sources in comments.

Please read the Hacker News guidelines[0] to see why people write in such a manner[1], good sir[2]!

[0] Paul Graham did it

[1] And everyone copied it here

[2] It's also way easier than putting the effort to weave these remarks into the text seamlessly

Map and filter, of course; less syntactical noise, simple function semantics, and plenty of precedent and equivalents in all other languages.