And to you giosch!<p>Wow 2016 has been an interesting year! Especially for us Brits/Europeans and Americans. Looks like 2017 will be a big year also.<p>I just wanted to thank everyone who has made valued contributions to Hacker News this year. I love to read the comments as I almost always learn something. I hope you have a fun and safe end to 2016 and a happy and healthy 2017.
Merry Christmas! My holiday message of hope (repost from <a href="http://www.generalstore.co/hope.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.generalstore.co/hope.html</a>).<p>As I look around my little Bay Area town, and especially my Facebook and Instashrams, I am struck by how fortunate we all are.<p>We do live and 'like' in our own snow globe of good tidings ~where everyone is warm, everyone is well fed, and the love of friends and family flows as easily as the wine.
So today, my wish and message of hope, is for all of us to pause.
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While we celebrate, let's pause to reflect, to consider and to act. Let's all extend an extra hand this Christmas, Hanukkah and into the New Year.<p>Whether it's a hand, a dollar, an ear or a smile, what you are truly giving is hope~ a star in the east to follow.
Wishing you and yours every happiness and good fortune. Peace and peace of mind and God's blessing..<p>Feliz Navidad
Prospero Año y Felicidad
Happy Hanukkah
Merry Christmas!<p>Happy Holidays,<p>-sthommes
Founder & CEO at Rainbow<p>"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.” -Einstein
Merry Christmas HN. This is my first Christmas here, and hopefully not my last. Right now I'm in London, celebrating my birthday as well as Christmas.<p>Have a brilliant day guys.
Best wishes for Christmas!<p>And one question to reflect on: why can we build compilers, operating systems, and distributed databases, while we can't find the basic rules of an economy that is well-performing, yet fair to every participant, now and in the future?
Merry Christmas to all of you!<p>Have an amazing day ahead, everyone.<p>To those not celebrating Christmas, happy holidays to you. The wish is applicable to you too :-)