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Oh goodness, there were 4.7 million US soldiers in the first world war - out of a US population of 102 million at the time. Surely that must be major?

I wonder how often this would need to be physically replaced/maintained. And for that matter what size is required - would this work for unpowered earplugs / would it be better tha…

Hollywood and associated content creation/monetization businesses are historically strongly aligned with the Democrats - though I agree with your ideal, it is not likely that the p…

That isn't entirely true. For instance, if you are investing on behalf of a foundation or other nonprofit structure, or a similar non-taxed or tax-deferred entity (like a pension f…

I find that a stretch. Oscar Wilde is at least as quotable, though I suppose the Brits categorize him as Irish instead. How about Orwell? Lewis Carroll? Jane Austen? Emily Bronte? …

You can probably cram them through since they are flexible, but they wouldn't fit without some force; a regulation rim is 18 inches inside diameter and a basketball 9.5 inches diam…

I think I'm missing what you're saying, can you expound on this? There are records of mercantile law going back to Hammurabi; there's been paper fiat currency in China since the 7t…

I'm somewhat surprised to see that Chrome on my Nexus 10 shows up as unique, based primarily on user agent and screen size/color depth. Both seem to be surprisingly less common tha…

I realize this is only anecdata but the ones I know buy EVERY ONE of the toys :)

Though Jeff came out of a hedge fund (DE Shaw) and doesn't seem to have been struggling :)

We're currently doing one. It's been relatively painless, most of the difficulty being simultaneously moving off old myisam tables to innodb -> xtradb

I was there when they did this a long time ago (circa 2000), I believe in conjunction with Greenlight.com - at the time it was a "cars" tab which was basically just third party sto…

Presumably it would look a lot like an accelerator, inasmuch as most accelerators don't put in any significant amount of capital but do add a lot of experience around startup growt…

Probably for the perpetrators, probably not for the companies involved (which are likely to have the same set of Delaware and/or Cayman mailing addresses) :-P But sure, I would exp…

> Anarchism without pacifism is a contradiction Please expound on this - that statement sounds unintuitive and generally the opposite of what I'd expect

One of those degrees is definitely "sure, that sounds like a turnon." There is certainly legitimate exploitation, but it's not like Paris Hilton did it to make rent.

The Florida highway through the Keys dates to the 1930s and the NYC Catskill aqueduct to roughly 1916 - those are certainly great projects but aren't the last fifty. Largely agree …

When the show is initially airing, HBO would rather you subscribe to the cable channel, since the cable company pays them much more than Netflix or Hulu would. When the season ends…

We talk a lot about disrupting businesses here; there's a reasonable number of folks in the audience who want to do this to health care. Likely no deeper than that, but understandi…

I'm sure there's an audience for which that's true, but it would seem like that's an edge case of people who prefer to overpay for nostalgia purposes if they could get the same pro…

This is one of those stories that only looks good in the distant rear view mirror. Trying this is pure shareholder lawsuit bait and invitation to corporate-veil piercing. (Still ma…

Generally true but definitely survivorship bias

This seems (to me) more a 1st amendment issue - freedom of speech/press/petition?

Doesn't seem too kooky, there's $163 billion spent every year to do just that: http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/dispannouncements?article=1590