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He's referring to the fact that in the 70's and 80's everyone thought Japan was going to dominate but their economy wasn't (and still isn't) built on the most solid foundation. The…

Have you thought about placing it on third party gaming sites? Kongregate.com is a great example (disclaimer I work there), they have a built in audience, handle marketing, payment…

The Commerce Clause was put in place to stop States from taxing each other, not what it's currently being used for.

I went to Rose-Hulman and almost no one out here in SF has heard of the school. Doesn't matter.

San Francisco, CA - Kongregate - http://www.kongregate.com/pages/jobs Love games? Kongregate is a flash gaming portal and mobile game publisher. We're expanding the mobile team in …

From experience spending extremely large amounts of money: If done right Facebook will win every time. Use targeted mobile app install campaigns, Facebook's bread-and-butter. Your …

After I figured out OkCupid I had about a 30%-40% message to date success rate. I've shown friends and while they haven't had quite my success they've drastically increased the num…

People seem to forget that democracy and freedom are relatively new to the world. The Soviet Union collapsed 20 years ago, many European countries have been free for less than 40 y…

China is an oligarchy or crony capitalist country. The wealthy and powerful use the government to get what they want. In a true free-market system you can't use the government to d…

Texas is just plain run well. The state barely had a recession because they had common sense regulations that stop the housing from skyrocketing in the first place. It takes days n…

Paul addresses two points. First that corporations and the rich avoid taxes and two that there isn't enough money to fund the public good. The solution to both is very simple. Firs…

The United States is the most charitable country in the world. On top of that I never said to deny coverage to those that can't afford it. There are other ways. How about the givin…

You can still sue a doctor or hospital for malpractice. EDIT (answering the responses): - Overseas you can buy a cheap insurance policy to cover the cost of a lawsuit. The underwri…

Where does it work well? A small country with a homogenous population can pull it off but there isn't a single large country where it works. They keep their costs down by rationing…

How is this surprising? We've completely taken the free-market out of health care. The only way it will ever be solve is if we re-introduce market forces back into the mix. The oth…

Sweden and Canada are the best two examples where austerity worked. Need to realize that there is no austerity in Europe, every economy is still spending more than they were just 5…

You do realize that if the current global temperature trends continue for another 2 years every global warming model will fall outside the 95% confidence interval (ie, wrong).

Can't recall the study but a researchers analyzed optimal work behavior. They found that the most/best work is produced when an individual works 7-9 hours per day. The more creativ…

they do a great job at explaining injection molding: http://www.protomold.com/Resources.aspx

Got a couple emails asking me questions, this is the company I always used in the US for prototyping. They are a little expensive but fast. They also have great resources that will…

don't deal with alibaba, contact the manufacturer directly. Most have reps in either Singapore, Hong Kong, or Taiwan that you can talk with, just need to find them.

Wrote a few articles a couple years ago for HN on physical products here's one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896 elaborated a bit more here: http://curtgeen.com…

you can teach yourself to be confident and comfortable around women. I used to HORRIBLE back in the day.

The problem with online dating boils down to: guys have no idea what they are doing. I've helped my friends and the secret is to write a three sentence message: an intro about why …