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Thanks for the question – this is Ben (subject of OP). I listed some causes I think are valuable in the interview, but in general I think GiveWell and ACE are good evaluators: * ht…

Thanks for the question – this is Ben (subject of the article). I think living on minimum wage is a nice thing for journalists to put as a headline, but I tend to shy away from it …

Health eFilings | REMOTE | Senior Backend Engineer | http://healthefilings.com/ Health eFilings software enables physicians who provide better care to get paid more money. We are l…

Health eFilings, software developer, REMOTE (US only) Venture backed startup; our software enables physicians who provide better care to get paid more. We have five team members, t…

Health eFilings, software developer, REMOTE Venture backed startup which is the premier provider of software solutions that enable health care providers to comply with Medicare rep…

Entrepreneurs are, in general, not motivated by money. This may be what you are saying - in which case I agree! What I object to is this statement: > Or may you just don't have the…

Generally researchers identify industries by using a code system like [NAICS]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Industry_Classif... ). My guess is that the Google founde…

I would disagree with the causality. The sort of person who can get an influential job in a top-tier startup is probably also the sort of person who can start a good company.

> Most entrepreneurs arise out of an idea. And how did you get that idea? How did you get the experience to see that there was an unfilled need in the marketplace? People who have …

I think this is in interesting point (modulo the remark made elsewhere about "assuring" success), but I don't have the evidence to know how it should affect your decisions. The res…

> I'm just pointing out something fairly obivous - that not participating in a market is not a very effective way of changing how that market produces things. Everyone participates…

I don't know of anything else for FF, but it's [open source]( https://github.com/Xodarap/Paranoid-Browsing ) and in Javascript, so I assume a port wouldn't be too hard for anyone w…

Pardon my naivete, but why isn't this obvious? Of course two systems can only be consistent if they can communicate, so you have to either sacrifice availability until the partitio…

If you invite me over to your house and I happen to see a dead body on the floor, the first amendment doesn't prevent me from reporting you to the police.

It's remarkable to me that hackers are against every form of alternative medicine, except regarding nutrition. If I told you that the American Cancer Society said wearing pendants …

Given that every single Olympic athlete is advised by doctors I would say, "pretty damn strong".

You should see US News' annual survey of dieticians.[1] They agree with you, it's just an odd publication bias that gives these "alternative" diets traction. 1. http://health.usnew…

US News & World report does an annual survey of dieticians: http://health.usnews.com/best-diet Unsurprisingly, those dieticians overwhelmingly say that meat-heavy diets like paleo …