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alibaba_x··on The dirty secret behind Ben Shapiro's extraordinary success on Facebook
The article mentions it at the end, Shapiro is best buddies with Mark Zuckerberg. That's something not everybody can replicate.
alibaba_x··on Why Does DARPA Work?
Great comment.

I agree that companies would much rather do the exploiting and leave exploration to the government.

alibaba_x··on Show HN: Corporate Private Jet Tracker
Why Xoom? Isn’t it a PayPal money remittance service, or did you mean Zoom?
alibaba_x··on NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non-artistic developers
How long? 2

What? Years

So 2 years.

Or 2 write “months” if 2 months, or “projects” if 2 projects.

alibaba_x··on Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
Was it @feross?
alibaba_x··on Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
Somebody described Singapore as "Disneyland with the Death Penalty". It's good for those with a deep love for the rule of law.
alibaba_x··on Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
Bangkok, Thailand. One of the 3 digital nomad meccas of the world (along with Chiang Mai and Bali)
alibaba_x··on Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system
It's not about hoarding organs. If you are an exact match for some wealthy person on a transplant waitlist you might legitimately fear for your safety.
alibaba_x··on Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
Shopify released a mobile app recently for this exact purpose.
alibaba_x··on Show HN: A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis
Is their data public? The US publishes this data about their senators but I’m not sure if the UK does as well
alibaba_x··on Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
All 6 Dune books? The first one was a masterpiece but the rest are not as widely praised.
alibaba_x··on Show HN: Tracking stock trading by US Senators
How exactly can the SEC prove that someone used that site for commercial purposes?
alibaba_x··on Carbon: Create and share images of source code
Does anyone actually buy the paid version of your tool?
alibaba_x··on Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’
It’s in his biography.
alibaba_x··on Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’
The first thing Musk did after arriving to Canada as a 17 year-old was call up senior bankers until he secured an internship at one of their banks.

He then got into online payments (X.com, PayPal) and the sale of his shares allowed him to start SpaceX and buy Tesla.

So don't listen to what billionaires say and just look at what they do if you don't want to get deceived by them.

alibaba_x··on New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources
He's just noting how the article is focusing entirely on how this bill will affect journalists in particular rather than literally everybody.
alibaba_x··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
The fact that you would be willing to sacrifice your children’s future for “the Greater Good” is deeply troubling to me. I would want the best for my kids even at the expense of social justice and the common good.
alibaba_x··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
I agree with this assessment. Racial grievances are based on a shared narrative of how the white man hurt them.
alibaba_x··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
Harvard’s reputation is not set in stone. Once Affirmative Action and athletic scholarship grads start to enter the workforce en masse the Harvard brand will gradually erode.
alibaba_x··on Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
Yes I know, but the whole impeachment thing happened because of that modest amount nevertheless.
alibaba_x··on Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
Interesting timing right before a U.S. election. Likely trying to avoid Russian disinformation like in 2016.
alibaba_x··on Federal Reserve balance sheet trends
>our own Fed

It's actually privately owned and not public.

alibaba_x··on Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
Nebraska? The only Midwest place I could imagine with the best hospital in the world would be close to Warren Buffet.
alibaba_x··on Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer
Doesn't TopTracker payments require both freelancer and client to create a Payoneer account? Requiring clients to sign up for Payoneer is a huge barrier to adoption for your service.
alibaba_x··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
As a Canadian, what’s the best way to advertise to potential employers my eligibility for the TN visa, and emphasize how much less hassle it is than H1-B visa sponsorship?
alibaba_x··on What is the engineering hiring bar?
That's what companies mean by diversity as well.
alibaba_x··on What is the engineering hiring bar?
Found the Canadian
alibaba_x··on I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
How can such an app compete against Stripe’s very own Terminal? Don’t this guy’s customers know that an official option exists?

https://stripe.com/terminal

alibaba_x··on YouTube Regrets
Mozilla is just so consistently off the mark with every new product offering they make. They have top-tier engineering talent but leadership seems completely out of touch and irrelevant.
alibaba_x··on GitHub and US Government Developers
I thought the same thing as well and am confused as to why you're getting downvoted.
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