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External forces happen. I've certainly seen businesses shut down for reasons outside of their control. It's just that this happens a minority of the time. Most of the time, busines…

A lot of the more successful entrepreneurs I know operate a lot like Elon Musk. The basic model seems to be to: * Start a project in spare time * Validate technology (prototype som…

I think you're actually missing the point. "Competent to execute" is far more important than "working hard enough." Elon Musk splits his life between Tesla, Solarcity (now part of …

You have to look at the other side of the equation too: expenses and family structures. $200k euros in the bank is a ton if you're a single student. It's a very short runway if you…

I've seen order-of-magnitude difference in abilities of companies to: * Build products * Sell products * Recruit * Build rapport with customers * Evaluate business models Most of t…

Nope. I've seen plenty of successful companies bumble around and have dumb luck. The reverse is also true -- perfect execution is rare and almost guarantees success. I'll reemphasi…

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It almost certainly is, and I sure hope the Apache Foundation starts to enforce their trademark. Otherwise, they might lose it. They have a trademark on "Apache" and even a lot of …

I don't think that's what's being suggested. The idea that redlining should be reexamined by the courts every half century or so is what's being suggested. In 2018, courts ought to…

To be fair, the system works pretty well on the whole. One of the reasons I switch to Uber/Lyft because of the extreme attention on customer service. Drivers are very motivated to …

I have similar use cases. Startup time starts to matter once you either want to build test cases or put scripts in loops. If I have a script that parses one big data file, and I de…

.... Or they could have made play areas kids wanted to go to (when I was a child, going to Toys-r-Us was the ultimate thing), and sold toys people wanted (instead of branded sensor…

People hate Circuit City. Not quite clear why you'd want to start with a hated brandname. There was the whole restocking fee thing, the DMCA thing, and a whole bunch of others. I d…

I would have much the same feeling if I didn't have a child myself. There are many good toy stores around. Toys-R-Us just isn't one of them anymore. At some point between when I wa…

8-year study of progressive education from a hundred years ago is probably the oldest result showing project-based learning works well. Miki Chi's ICAP is the current one. You have…

> That implies they must find a lot of suckers to sell to. Stock prices are usually driven by analysts who spend their days analyzing companies to predict future performance. Good …

I'm in favor of ditching usernames. Using real names, though? If I were to short-list bad idea to kill the site, that'd be pretty close to the top.

In many states, this has already happened due to a different area of law which operates on rumor and innuendo: divorce. In several states, divorce law was rewritten by feminists an…

I cannot sufficiently emphasize how true this is. Source: Intimately familiar with the Media Lab. As with most places, there is a type of conformable non-conformance. Kind of like …

Well, the costs are nicer, but mostly, Glacier goes from an unusable pricing model to a usable one. I was terrified to use Glacier. The previous model, if you made requests too rap…

There is a scale of insincerity to rudeness. I've been in cultures where each of those is considered respectful and reasonable. The onus is very much on corporate America to accept…

There is a scale of insincerity to rudeness. I've been in cultures where each of those is considered respectful and reasonable. The onus is very much on corporate America to accept…

There were many people greatly superior to Linus technically in the BSD community when Linux was wiping BSD's chronometers.

You're confusing corruption for incompetence.

Ain't gonna happen. It's a long chain of logic, but fractional reserve banking, at the levels we're seeing, prevents it. Most of our money supply is created through debt. As a resu…