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rak00n··on Are the dead taking over Facebook?
How did they take over his account? Did they know his password? Or is there a way to get access to account after someone is dead?
rak00n··on Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag
You never know if Toyota would shut down Tesla after merging. This has happened so many times before.
rak00n··on Ask HN: Anyone making 200k as a software engineer outside the US?
You missed the other part.

"I personally think that 996 is a huge blessing," he said. "How do you achieve the success you want without paying extra effort and time?"

rak00n··on The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
Harvard is buying real estates in Central Coast not Central Valley. These two are different regions.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-quietly-amasses-califor...

rak00n··on Ask HN: Anyone making 200k as a software engineer outside the US?
Jack Ma of Alibaba endorsed 996 - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/04/15/busi....
rak00n··on How to use Gmail more efficiently (2013)
Yes, multiple inbox is still there. It's basically last n mails in a certain label.
rak00n··on I Sell Onions on the Internet
How did a bitchy comment lead to all that?
rak00n··on Airports would be 300% less soul-crushing if they had libraries
Why not carry a Kindle or a book that you want to read?
rak00n··on How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
That's only $6796.87 per person.
rak00n··on Construction has kept rent in Chongqing, China to $75 a month
What's the reason?
rak00n··on Simplify Gmail: Bringing the Simplicity of Google Inbox to Gmail
I do. It's like a poor man's implementation for bundles, where you can archive things by removing the label.
rak00n··on Ask HN: I feel sad about my life and job, and do not know what to do
Carb isn't that bad as long as you're burning it.
rak00n··on San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
Ethical ground is definitely part of the culture but not entirty of it.
rak00n··on Google requiring contractors get health care coverage, parental leave
Setting a minimum wage and enforcing it has always been a government's job. And when I say government I not necessarily mean federal government. It can be a state government (like California) or city government (like San Francisco).

A single company can enforce it in a limited manner and that doesn't have any discernable impact on the society.

rak00n··on Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
You need to change your job. There are better places to work where your boss won't "punish" you.

Also your second argument could be applied to absolutely anything. You can always find something that deserves more attention.

rak00n··on Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
Getting fingerprint is supposed to be a standard procedure.
rak00n··on Google requiring contractors get health care coverage, parental leave
This should be a government's job to decide. Google isn't the authority that should decide on that.
rak00n··on San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
I doubt that Google's options are shrinking. There aren't that many companies with similar pay scale or culture.
rak00n··on My Dumbest Backpacking Mistakes (2018) [video]
Where did you get this numbers from? I think my hiking boots are way beyond those numbers by now.
rak00n··on What did Google+ get right?
When you tag someone their friends can see it on her wall if she chooses to.
rak00n··on EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021
They usually come with this warning that they are only biodegradable on specialized facility.
rak00n··on 996.icu, Chinese programmers against working overtime gathering on GitHub
The other part of the argument is programming doesn't scale the same way. A sleep deprived waiter can fulfill his tasks while a programmer cannot perform on the same acceptable par.
rak00n··on Interviews with developers who became managers
How can he delegate hiring?
rak00n··on Uber to Seal $3.1B Deal to Buy Careem This Week
Why isn't Lyft going for foreign markets as aggressively as Uber?
rak00n··on Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
> 1000 messages per day

Most people should get more than thousand emails everyday if they sign up for any service anywhere with that email address.

rak00n··on Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
It's actually 63 million people, roughly 20%.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-am...

rak00n··on I hacked the MIT Technology Review website to gain unlimited online access
I achieve the same thing simply by opening the site in incognito window. Too bad I cannot write a blog post about it.
rak00n··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)
You passed the sense of humor test.
rak00n··on This Is Silicon Valley
Nope, your just indentfied the problem that needs to be solved. You haven't "solved" the problem, which is massively more complex.
rak00n··on Facebook Planned to Spy on Android Phone Users, Internal Emails Reveal
They pay on the same par as other big techs. See https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Amazon/Google/Facebook
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