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You are equating higher cost with better quality. There usually is a correlation, but with US healthcare's opaqueness with prices, I wouldn't make that correlation. Leaving aside t…

How does one go about eating the sun or the trillion trillion watts produced by sun? You need all that energy converted to something edible - that means there is at least one job, …

Dead cells, liver byproducts

Let me add couple more: (1) Asking for a feature and then never showing up once when it is being built. "Hey, we are adding this page here. Is it okay?" . "Hey, is this workflow go…

McAfee web gateway flags this site as 'Malicious site.' Something to check there.

Allowing foreign investment is a minor problem in ecommerce space. Flipkart has foreign investment via VCs for quite some time. There are a lot more fundamental issues in ecommerce…

Derek Lowe has real high class humor. I always end up knowing new things while laughing like a maniac. It just makes things a little awkward at office though. I always had to keep …

Some one did both to our startup. It was one of the most productive meetings that I had. The conclusion that we needed to shut shop was pretty clear after that meeting. It was some…

Its not a troll comment. I just spent 3 hours poring over how CUPS worked in 12.04 and trying to find out why my USB printer is not working. I just could not fix it and rebooted my…

Steven Pinker's book 'The Stuff of Thought' deals with this sort of phrasing. And he explains it quite better than what I can. So here is the relevant excerpt from the book: Why do…

Happy Birthday Slashdot! It still has some of the best discussions in tech world.

Should we support NFC? Should we launch a digital wallet? Should we build a robotic Prius? Should we develop augmented reality glasses and launch those glasses by doing a live Goog…

> And beating expectations buoys our mood. All else being equal, people who wait less than they anticipated leave happier than those who wait longer than expected. The same philoso…

That's the troubling part. Even when Ben came to know that Tim was not conducting 1:1s, his first instinct should be to know why 1:1s were not happening. He could've asked Steve or…

You took the words out of me. Even if there are no external customers waiting for the release, a business' other departments have to plan their activities. When will marketing star…

App discovery is a problem for consumers as well. My iPad does not show no more than ~40 games. I don't know if I am not looking hard enough or I just can't browse more than that w…

Iron in the blood is paramagnetic. It is not affected by magnets.

Guns are not banned in India. It just takes more effort to get guns. You need a license to own a firearm. One of the high courts declared that unless there is something adverse aga…

This is more broken than email. 1. This solution eliminates the decentralized nature of email. 2. No solution for corporate customers who would want to keep their emails private. 3…

That Haskell is used extensively in trading is quite interesting to know. This distinction did not come out that well on the wiki link. This is probably the reorganization that the…

I thought the link would be of companies that use Haskell as their primary language of development, but it is more of companies which use/had used Haskell in one of their projects.…

Why didn't they think of using dedicated servers? Dedicated servers would have been more economical than using so many VPSes.

At my previous work we used docking stations for the laptops. So at desk I had my big 22" monitor, mouse and regular keyboard connected to my laptop and whenever I am away I still …

Also, I've not actually heard of Copycopter before, and I think it's a bit of a stretch to make the causative link between your announcement of shutting down, to also having AOL an…