Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20278819

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They still record your IP address and link it to all the sites you visit that have a facebook script.

http://www.vocativ.com/212533/big-tobacco-doctors/index.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4778168/US-doctors...

Overpopulation is the root cause of many other serious issues such as hunger, lack of access to sanitation/medical treatment/education. We live in a world with finite resources, so the more of us there are, the less each of us gets.

Is this really the case? All I've seen is praise.

In some cases this is based on a voluntary contract and in some it is based on a public lending right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right

https://courses.platzi.com/classes/build-grow-online-communi...

Edit: Apparently it's no longer free. The course isn't really worth $100 in my opinion, so here's a short writeup of the videos http://cmxhub.com/article/product-hunt-erik-torenberg-commun...

It seems that certain interests will carry through no matter what.

Why is it a problem if Google knows more about you? Doesn't it just mean that you will be served content more relevant to you?

Population growth increases demand for goods and services. This generates new jobs, venture opportunities and increases the value of existing assets such as real estate and securities. Overall population growth creates a positive spiral in the economic sense.

Of course none of this takes into account that we live in a world with limited resources. And there is no incentive to do so - as long as you have sufficient assets that stand to rise in value. It's the people who have the least that suffer the most from overpopulation.

I couldn't agree more.

But they haven't turned a profit since 2013.

What's even more annoying is that it took me 10 minutes of googling to figure out what their annual net results are. Revenue shows up as the first result on google, but if you want to see the net result, you actually have to look through their quarterly reports.

Author presumes 100% of programming time is spent typing/editing.

Is this really the case? I'd wager it's close to 10% for most people.

Sincere question: Why is it a problem?

Saying "I'm a good communicator" is the most succinct and clear way of communicating that one is a good communicator.

The recipient needs only read 4 words to get the message.

No journalist would just change topic after hearing this. It's a very controversial and ambiguous statement, and Thiel must have elaborated a great deal on it. But there is no further mention of any of that in the article.

>It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html