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Thanks for the answer! I'm a Canadian that works in the US on a TN. Would it probably be a bad idea to get a green card even if I have future bay area startup aspirations?

Aaaaahhhhhhh. What would you suggest for people setting up startups setup as a general structure before everything getting properly started to avoid things like the 6 million dolla…

Make an iPhone app to connect to your web apps? That way you'll have a need to use it, even if your mostly typing objective-c.

Communication is just more awkward compared to face to face time.

To be honest, an iPhone is too expensive for most of the developing world. Rarely anyone has an iPhone in thailand, and they're looked as luxury items like a luxury car.

I think someone is working on a thunderbolt -> USB3 + more hub. I personally can't wait until the next gen macbook airs have thunderbolt and hopefully usb3. There would be finally …

Considering it cost about $2-$3 to create and ship the hardcover book to amazon, depending on amazon's cut of the kindle book, the publisher might be making more money on the hard …

That's just distasteful to delete data. Just encrypt it with a public key.

SF/Bay Area iPhone Developers (put 22 if you just want to see the results) http://salaryshare.me/b57de74e7eecef0c5179516ee5e75a1f

Higher Taxes. Quebec has generally higher taxes vs. the rest of canada, and places like washington have no state income tax. Also the locations it could be comparing could be downt…

If your a non-us citizen, you do this by just moving things to a jurisdiction that doesn't have capital gain and estate taxes. The US is unique that they'll tax you even if you are…

Sony pocket reader would be near perfect if they added amazon's side buttons, and a one/two tap method to get to a fully expanded out table of contents like iBooks. Being able to u…

Being owned by canadians, an economy that is intimately tied and dependent to the fate of the US economy, speak the same language and are fairly friendly neighbours overall isn't t…

Find a generic voip provider with incoming numbers, priority call forwarding, voicemail saved as mp3 files and emailed to you? All you'd be missing is the texting and voicemail tra…

Could you guys go for .03/minute? I could get .03/minute on my cell phone to call around a dozen countries in thailand ( http://www.truemove.com/en/Inter-SIM-postpay.rails ) and yo…

Big thing about google voice is the redirection, and some of us want a local number in our country to be called at.

padmapper.com gets info from craigslist and others. hotpads.com is also good.

Haven't these drugs basically gone through extensive human trial already?

How about a W-2 contractor with benefits?

Darcy also goes to school although: "By day I attend the University of Western Australia"

And in some states (like washington), by law, work done on your own time with your own equipment that does not directly compete is yours too. (And the law even says you have to put…

The rice portion is significantly smaller (about as big as your asian hands could carry if they shaped as a bowl) than the typical north american starch portion.

Diet will get rid of weight, exercise will determine what will be underneath.

I got a prepaid SIM at t-mobile recently and they asked for id. You can buy unused sims and such although.

Not really, the victim made the language himself and did this for quite some while.