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The cost differential is about right given that Indian labor, skilled and unskilled, is about 1/10 the cost of the US. This mission employed 2500--not exactly Spartan.

This particular design doesn't take a lot of skill to create, and I'm not sure the author knows what problem to solve. The triviality of the redesign should be embarrassing to the …

- The photo is the most important feature of the badge; for security reasons, it should be as large as possible. - First and last names are not as important as one's email address …

Hiring #1 is tricky: you need to find someone good, but also naive. In this era of the ray startup, it makes little sense for a great engineer to work for someone else: the first e…

Because there was other intelligence to be gleaned which was not the result of spying on Americans. Only the law firm was American; the rest of the parties were not. It's possible …

If students didn't do this, it's unlikely their works would be read by more than a handful of people in their lifetime.

Most bit rot isn't due to cosmic rays, but rather to decay on the disk itself.

This has been done dozens of times. Not sure why it hasn't taken off. I think some people crush everyone then claim they were joking, thereby burning the other side. There should b…

This could be more accurately titled, "why entrepreneurs thought they failed." Personally, I'm not sure failed entrepreneurs are qualified to make that diagnosis.

TL;DR Title is misleading, possibly false. The Aussies spied on a trade negotiation and offered to share the intel with America. It is not known whether or not the Americans accept…

Hotels are a form of progressive taxation: rich out of town travelers pay more for housing than permanent residents. Generally travelers are richer than non travelers because trave…

This is a great example of the the danger of consuming "raw" corporate propaganda. Without professional journalists to fact-check, look for other perspectives, and filter corporate…

Not necessarily. Snowden took mainly metadata: PowerPoint presentations and the like. I have not heard tell that he took any actual intercepts or personally identifiable cell phone…

Any chance of Linux support? How does it compare with Coverity, Clang Analyzer, PREfast, Klocwork et al?

Expected value only enters the picture if you can play many, many times. It's more realistic to look at the median outcome, yet every entrepreneur is transfixed by the big exits. I…

A banner impression is not the same thing as watching a video; not at all. A banner impression has very little value. It's more accurate to look at page views.

"I'm a fifth generation San Franciscan" sums it up pretty well.

In other words, this campaign had the viewership of about one moderately popular YouTube video.

Apple is also selling into the living room. The Apple TV sells 6-7 million of them a year.

The high failure rates of startups suggest otherwise.

White rice contains very little fructose. Bananas have more but not compared to, say, an orange.

Yes. They can be the unhealthy minority in an otherwise healthy diet.