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According to the article, one of the main advantages of Thiel's program is the contacts they make. So how different is it from the Ivy League?

And more important, a significant financial incentive to correct their own obviously inadequate procedures.

Amazon does this. If you look at a product and then come back later to buy it the price will be higher than it is if you bought it immediately after looking. If you want to get the…

He's suing the charities along with Inman and IndiGoGo on his own behalf, not for FunnyJunk. He's acting as his own lawyer and demanding his legal fees be paid by the defendants. T…

We appreciate the uniformity of men's clothes sizes, too. One of the reasons women have to think about clothing and shop for clothing a lot more than men do is that we can't just l…

No, because Craigslist is not a broker. They're an advertiser. AirBnB is a broker because all the financial transactions go through them so their legal and tax responsibilities are…

Most languages were proprietary and expensive through the 80s. When C took off it wiped out (or much reduced) the use of expensive proprietary languages. C was free so a lot of peo…

Agreed that tutorials on 'how to program' are and should be different from tutorials about a new language for experienced programmers, but one thing that both should do early on is…

Affirmative action has and continues to be a problem, though. The vast majority of affirmative action has favored and continues to favor rich, connected white men. Famous example: …

I think I still have the box somewhere at home. I should donate it to the Computer History Museum.

Perhaps economics and game theory will in the long run but here and now the Department of Justice and the class-action plaintiffs are doing a good job taking down the cartel.

Whenever someone moans about not being able to hire when other companies can do it, the solution is obvious. Offer better jobs! Better working conditions, better projects, better b…

What Stallman's for is free as in 'free speech'. Free as in 'free beer' is something completely different.

I keep thing separate by doing only Google things in Chrome and everything else in Firefox. I will continue to shun Google+ because of the stories about people being shut out of it…

In practice the two kinds of leave are treated differently even if they're from the same pool since vacation has to be requested in advance and sick time usually cannot be requeste…

It is extremely expensive in the US for small companies to provide health insurance for employees. Not as horribly expensive as individual insurance, but still outrageously high.

This is a great example of a launch page, not an MVP. It's not 'a version of a new product', it's marketing information about a proposed product. One reason it's a good example of …

I just looked at the Amazon sale page and saw it had one review from the author saying that he is the copyright holder, then refreshed the page and the review was gone. So it seems…

"a business model threatening crisis that everyone should have seen coming" Airbnb did see it coming and were careful to cover it in their TOS section 1.2 and 1.4. They have, howev…

No, it doesn't cover illegal transactions. In many places the Airbnb rentals are violations of local or state hotel laws. Even in places not covered by those kinds of laws, it's un…

In many places the business facilitated by Airbnb is illegal. New York state, Chicago, and many other places have strict hotel laws that forbid these kinds of informal apartment re…

Yes, I got this e-mail today and was most impressed that it went on for so long without providing any information useful to me, the customer. None of the links in it go to anything…

Savvy businessmen know the difference between discounted nonrefundable tickets and full-fare refundable tickets. I think he should leave this in his blog since it's very helpful in…