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Brazilian here: A local tax expert pointed out that Sony is adding a huge profit margin on top of the taxes [1]. Sony has disclosed the tax figures to the media but not their profi…

Google "Cory Booker". He is a politician, so any link I include here will create controversy, but his model was to implement small-scale experiments, collect data, and use that dat…

Actually the data is available. The city of Newark for example has implemented several small-scale social innovations during the past few years, and they focused very much on data …

> I believe that if you remove the incentive to work to survive, vast swaths of people will simply choose not to do anything Three-quarters of adult recipients of the Brazilian bas…

> Lastly, TED's biggest value is in developing countries. TED Global 2014 will be hosted in Rio, Brazil, at US$6,000 per person. This is 4 months of a local mid-level web developer…

The title is misleading. It should read "Google employee ports Amiga emulator to Chrome" From the FAQ: "The code was forked from PUAE, the Portable Universal Amiga Emulator, from G…

My statement "on the expectation that he would be paid only if Apple would perform well" meant "paid in bonuses", which includes the shares and perks. Also, I never stated that Job…

When Steve Jobs accepted the job as a interim-CEO to clean-up Sculley's mistakes, back when Apple was almost bankrupt, he accepted the $1 salary on the expectation that he would be…

What is the problem in calling public people for what they really are? Vikram Pandit is overpaid [1], John Sculley was clearly unfit for the position, and although Tim Cook is tale…

> Why not say all chemicals should be legalized. Very simple: Law enforcement protects individuals against the actions of other individuals , and not against themselves. Your loved…

> homeless people aren't all stupid, stoned-out losers. And then you say I am biased?

It's interesting that you mentioned the newspaper model, because that's actually what I had it on the back of my mind when I wrote my comment above: The newspapers you are referrin…

Why the choice is between exploitation vs. do-nothing? Why not the old-school approach? Interview experienced professionals in the area (people who actually work with homeless peop…

So if I go to an upscale neighborhood and offer $100 at random, would that mean that anyone who refuses my offer is motivated enough to code? Of course not, that's silly. We are di…

I have a very close family member who went missing and eventually was found homeless. In the course of the investigation we found that several people exploited and took advantage o…

Are you arguing that lack of motivation is the root cause of homelessness, rather than poverty and mental health issues?

Homelessness is a serious and complex issue rooted in mental health and poverty, and the "mentor" behind the homeless coder reduced it to a game, just to show that all one needs to…

> Tests like 23andme aren't something your local doctor does every checkup. Fair enough. So why not let FDA go through their process, do their investigation, and once approved peop…

Have you considered XULRunner?

Although you are correct in your assertion that Fairchild was basically the "mother" of VC, that does not invalidates the OP's point. Take this example: Do you know any VC firm tod…

> So you take a picture of each sketch, and upload them to Dropbox You just created an incentive for programmers to draw useless diagrams on paper and upload them on Dropbox just t…

The key issue is what you just described in your last paragraph. Micro-managing by metrics without thinking in side-effects is actually harmful to the team. There is a reason measu…

> Where is Brazil’s Snowden? Is the author aware that Glenn Greenwald (the reporter who first reported about Snowden) ACTUALLY LIVES IN BRAZIL??? This article is just a nationalist…