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pekko··on Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?
My experience of Quip is very similiar to how you described Dropbox Paper (which I haven't used): write, get feedback with in-line comments, collaborate, and forget the whole thing. But it's nice, slim, and fast.
pekko··on Amazon’s “second headquarters” may be no such thing
And, thankfully, EU has regulations against such schemes. We can have international treaties and organisations to prevent cases of tradegy of commons.

For example, EU forces Ireland to collect taxes from Apple, because it deemed such rebates to be illegal state aid. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_State_aid_case_agai...

pekko··on Unkown Unknowns: Why you should release early
I don't think this post was limited on side projects. Many people reading this are working, or will work in environments where safety and correctness are important, if not critical.
pekko··on Letter From Human Rights Leaders Asking President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden
He says that he got rid of the documents, there's no way to verify it. I think there are no reasons to take his statements at the face value, given the players involved in the overall situation -- the world's top intelligence agencies.
pekko··on YC set to launch one-year minimum income pilot project to figure out logistics
See http://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income: this one-year study is just a pilot, it works as a preparation for a longer-term one.
pekko··on Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering
Oracle's, not Cisco's.
pekko··on Deconstructing Finnish
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Finnish+Lesson+1_f22497_490...
pekko··on Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet
The decision rules that it would be Google's responsibility to filter search results, instead of the responsibility of actual page removing private data. So you can find the data if you know where to look at, just don't use Google?