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Tried it. Worked wonderfully when my hair was very short. Completely impossible as I started to grow my hair out. Then it became just oily no matter what. Had to start shampooing a…

Wild to see imgur becoming a blog platform.

"An employees risk is several magnitudes less than the founders across many factors. " I read often about founder risk, but I think it is overstated for non-bootstrapped companies.…

1 - If you've ever had alcohol, you've done a drug. 2 - marijuana is a more common first "drug" than hallucinogens, for good reason. Although temporary psychotic breaks CAN happen,…

Surveillance is trumped by enforcement?

yup

I've always wondered this: why can't this same idea be applied to wifi signal? Is it truly impossible to make wifi behave in a peer-to-peer/mesh network fashion?

Aside from the great general advice you are getting here: You can always go back to school or learn a new trade. The only thing preventing you is "being in competition" (your words…

This is a pretty good paper comparing United States plea bargaining to Germany. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

Cool explanation. I didn't conceptually get that the mitochondrial energy process is the same as a coal power plant. But if everything gets burned, how do I build new cell walls an…

The big mistake begins here: "Simple physics requires that to lose weight, we must burn more calories than we ingest" THAT fallacy is how the author leads the reader in to HIS stra…

This particular misconception has been wandering around for a while: "Simple ecosystems are the goal of proceedings like CARP, the panel that set out the ruinously high royalties f…

It seems everything the author is concerned about would be solved it there were a centrally/open-source managed, non-profit, DRM out there. The DRM which would be analogous to SSH.…

I know it is the deep dark valley of obvious, but this is why we use macs.

I recall quite recently the press release where Pandora talked about creating a musician middle class. For the first time in history. So, the first step to creating this middle cla…

This has happened to me often enough lately that I really wish someone would implement peer-to-peer hosting in a form that will replace the way the current internet works.

Not true, read the actual quote, he said "and women. Or men. Whatever" he specifically expanded it to basically include "whatever you are attracted to" ... he is a straight man, he…

I disagree, IMHO Pussy as a shorthand for sex reduces SEX to the sexual organs. Not the woman, the sex act. That may be unenlightened (we know sex can be so much more!) but not nec…

Without being there, I can't be sure, but the way the OP describes this appears to miss the point. The way I interpret that sentence, using the very little context supplied, is pro…

Conversation with a very technical friend of mine about filling positions in my bootstrapping company: HIM - you need a technical cofounder ME - don't I know it ... perhaps you cou…

Yeah, that's kind of the conclusion I came to. But that just makes me ask the question: Then why doesn't every developer with a related skillset just learn Objective C already and …

I have been through this a lot with a music/art interactive platform I've been working on for the past year and a half or so. My gut take on this is that programmers have the same …