I recently encountered an English equivalent 'ass glue'.

If you're asking about the ranking algorithm it's described here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Not specific to the context but "despair" seems to fit.

I find this also happens when playing chess. I don't fully consider the implications of a move until I've just made it.

The problem is the distribution of wealth. Mankind doing "less work" could be great for all or great for a few and terrible for the rest.

It's not cash, it's equity.

Well, he's not buying treasury bonds.

I thought the writing was excellent and the content insightful.

These are keyboard shortcuts not a command-line.

This might actually be really useful when communicating online with developers overseas who don;t speak English natively. Recently started using upwork and found myself rewriting instruction to use common words.