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moistgorillaon Uber Valued at More Than $50B

I know many people (myself included) who never used or would have considered using taxis but now use uber all the time.

moistgorillaon Uber Valued at More Than $50B

> nice luxury car

Are the cabs in Stockholm actually nice?

moistgorillaon A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared

The downside is for the company

moistgorillaon A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared

It's both but not having new housing built is definitely not helping

moistgorillaon Python is the new BASIC

You have to do that with almost every language (not including Java to C# or vice versa)

moistgorillaon Python is the new BASIC

What? He doesn't even mention anywhere in his comment what editor he is using

moistgorillaon Eating Our Own Dog Food: Behind the Scenes at Cloud9

Oh wow, I could have sworn they were related. (and I learned about cloud9 -the ide- because of them)

moistgorillaon Eating Our Own Dog Food: Behind the Scenes at Cloud9

Who do you think sponsors them?

moistgorillaon Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere

I'm sorry but who the f is this guy?

moistgorillaon Final Steps

Hey, just a heads up. On your landing page the text in your Hero didn't render properly. I'm using Firefox version 39.0 on Windows 7

moistgorillaon Raising Floor for Minimum Wage Pushes Economy into the Unknown

Yep, and they stopped it because the CEO they hired to replace Ben (or Jerry I forget) was horrible and mismanaged the company

moistgorillaon Raising Floor for Minimum Wage Pushes Economy into the Unknown

You are wrong. The world isn't as simplistic as you suggest. Just because something works in Australia or in some Scandinavian countries doesn't mean it would work in the US.

moistgorillaon China stocks drop over 8%

I love it when people call this a correction, as if unsophisticated Chinese investors are unlike the rest of humanity and will behave perfectly rational when they see all the value the gained disappear in a couple of months.

Here's what will actually happen in the coming months, China will keep on intervening in the stock market causing it to stop falling (because selling will be impossible). Investors will see their money become valueless because it's held up in worthless Chinese stocks killing whatever trust they had in the Chinese government. Then China will reach a period of 10 to 30 years where its market will not grow (because of lack of trust in the Chinese government).

If Chinese investors can get hyped enough to drive up valuations to 3000 p/e then they can also have a market panic.

moistgorillaon Military exercise Black Dart to tackle nightmare drone scenario

You might as well shoot somebody if you are going to try to land a drone with c4 on their head

moistgorillaon The $5B Battle for the American Dinner Plate

Seriously, in Atlanta there is a delivery service called zifty and I got really excited when they announced these meal plates. Well guess what? The cost of a meal for 2 that I still needed to cook myself was 34 dollars. Who in their right mind would think that is a good price point?

moistgorillaon Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

This and the top 100 game show thing are some of my best memories from using the xbox 360

moistgorillaon RESTful considered harmful

The problem with considered harmful I'm having is that so many low quality articles are using it in their titles and it really says nothing about the content other than somebody thinks some technology is bad.

moistgorillaon RESTful considered harmful

Can articles with the words "considered harmful" in the title (or the article itself for that matter) be banned? It's almost always a low effort way to get votes by taking a popular technology and finding some flaws to write an article on.

moistgorillaon Socialism, American-Style

The government of almost every country is -almost always- incompetent and inefficient. Why would I want to give them my money for "security" when I could assure myself that security much more effectively?

moistgorillaon YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

> and both parents have that right and obligation

Obligation? yes, right? not really

moistgorillaon Uber has defeated Bill de Blasio’s plan to rein them in

Are you seriously making fun of him because he didn't want to get scammed?

moistgorillaon Why I give my students a ‘tragedy of the commons’ extra credit challenge

And then one person says that they chose 6 points and haven't won it via lottery. The other students can't retaliate because the only way to get back at her would be to take away points from the entire group

moistgorillaon Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

Wow, they were really lucky an accident didn't occur since there was a "close to 100%" chance of an accident occurring!

moistgorillaon Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

The fact of the matter is that this is Startup News not Hacker news. Hardly anybody on this website is a hacker. Most are people that code html and php in their day job and go home and do normal shit. These are people that complain about how the industry "pressures" them into coding in their free time.

moistgorillaon Uber should be suspended in California and fined $7.3M, judge says

Uber receives massive backlash from taxi drivers, local governments receiving political funds from taxi companies and journalists with agendas. The average consumer loves Uber

moistgorillaon Iran Nuclear Deal Reached

naive about what?

moistgorillaon Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

Ha, good thing what's "interesting" is entirely subjective

moistgorillaon The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising

Using Twitch flash streaming kills my Macbook Pro 2015.

moistgorillaon The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising

With webassembly maybe a compile target for flash could be created?

moistgorillaon New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto

We owe nothing to China considering we pay them