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I grew up with the kind of income that would qualify me as poor. However, my parents' financial discipline were off the charts for someone in their position. Both of them had a dec…

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease". I have heard far many times for my liking that Apple/Facebook/Twitter/Google...etc are private companies and they can do whatever they want as …

The way I see it, I don't want somebody else to do the squash for me. It's my responsibility to make sure my commits are logical. I do as many rebases, fixups, squashes as necessar…

SF has far fewer trees than other cities. I agree that the city needs more trees but the city should plant them on sidewalks and other open spaces. http://www.deeproot.com/blog/blo…

I disagree. People were given a chance to express their opinion. If they cared enough, they should have voted. While that I don't necessarily agree with the ban, it's very importan…

Back when Kindle launched, it was very common to see the story of Kodak being floated around (film vs digital) to claim how Amazon is flexible. Fast forward a few years, Amazon vid…

While the tax code should be simplified, it's possible to automate most of the rules anyway. It should be as simple as upload W2(s), link your trading accounts, answer a few questi…

Most countries that have VAT have a uniform percentage for the whole country.

>> "higher income than the value they can output" Just so I can understand your argument better, can you elaborate this a bit more? How do you measure their output? How do you arri…

I'm really looking forward to YC Forestry!

For anyone interested, Freakonomics explored[1] this in detail and their conclusions were pretty similar. It included an interview from Claudia Goldin and her research[2] which was…

Thanks for the link! Seems like a good place to start.

What tools do people use to get around dyslexia? I recently realised that most auto-correct and spelling correction tools breakdown for dyslexic people. The challenge for them is t…

It's my understanding that the current battle is about the request to bypass the retry cap.

http://theconversation.com/explainer-evergreening-and-how-bi... I'm not an expert and I can't comment on specifics. But I'm of the opinion that a small enhancement is not the same …

A simple fix could go a long way - disallow really minor improvements and work hard to get rid of evergreening. http://www.nature.com/news/indian-court-rejects-novartis-pat...

But, if you look people out there is no way they'd even know if something is better...

They will protest if the schools restrict to teaching Catholicism or the Vedas respectively.

Growing up I didn't have a computer at home. I would write my solutions in a paper, evaluate it mentally/with a pencil a few times, take it to my school or a friend's place and run…

I hope everyone within Skype used it as your main communication tool. If you did, the problem would have been so obvious. Not so long ago, it was revolutionary to be able to send m…