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A shocking data point about how things are going is that the median real net worth for households headed by someone under 25 dropped 68% from 1984 to 2009, to $3,662. I remember he…

This is unbelievable: it looks like they are faking child births, too! The rate is up a whopping 15%. http://web.archive.org/web/20120203092942/https://www.cia.go... https://www.ci…

Both of you seem to think he said "instead." Consider the clauses rephrased: "Maybe we should start by examining our own community, before ..." Why? I'd guess because the blog post…

From https://balancedpayments.com "no redirects. no iframes. no external accounts." That's the unqiue, killer feature right there. If some M&A were to happen between those companie…

Excellent. Not too long ago I asked a partner at a very well known VC firm if they would consider investing a small amount ($x00) in many "startups" to see if the founders would us…

The "working with people" comment makes me wonder if they are working with Rethink Robotics.[1] That would be an even more interesting take on this shift. [1] http://spectrum.ieee.…

Translation is as much of an art as it is a science, so I wonder where this project is headed. Le Ton beau de Marot is a great book for illustrating this point. In college I had st…

In theory, I absolutely agree; however, in reality I disagree unless you can show some data that indicates money being spent this way is more ethical than inhibition. Considering t…

The focus seems to be on pricing, and understandably so considering the nature of people. The implied ethics behind the manufacturing is something I appreciate: I've bought clothin…

Create a new email account. Sign up on every form you come across on websites selling various products and services. Get ready to be spammed. When the sales guys get in touch, get …

Set up a stripe account today. Ask people to donate an amount that they would pay assuming a monthly rate. Analyze their usage data and payment data to assist you in coming up with…

So it happened that in my junior year of college, I came across the web site of one of the many finals clubs on campus, the Fly Club. It's "FINE-UHL clubs" not "FINE-UHLZ clubs." A…

Why is your team bad ass? This is my kind of application. This is similar to TechStars's application question "Why should we accept you?" which is great since you can candidly answ…

First, your comment is vacuous. Second, your account is over 1900 days old and it seems you are making personal attacks? Is this true, or have I mistaken "you" for a you general. T…

but our MISSION is to groom ugly ducklings. Then why do you make it so hard to touch base?[1] [1] http://500.co

One of the reasons Jason Fried needs to yell so loudly... Another reason: marketing. People don't get that.

For that reason one of my most valuable memories is how lame Facebook sounded to me when I first heard about it. This is partially why I think the YC application process is flawed.…

what do YC see in Everyday.me to make it worthy of being funded? That they are "ex-Googlers." It may be disingenuous to say that other applications do the same thing ; it's as if y…

The only disadvantage is that few engineers know it, and few are willing to pick it up because they're afraid of it. That's the advantage.

"Secure Boot is designed to address the potential for malware to insert itself between the firmware and the operating system on your computer. It accomplishes this by enforcing tha…

It would be difficult to overstate the impact Elon Musk has had, is having and will have on humanity I can't count how many times I've seen this debate. I think last week there was…