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The US taxes citizens on world wide income, no matter where they are resident, so they are probably the worst choice among the first world nations for the super rich. There are peo…

coin pouches ruin the leather of wallet and make them really bulge out. Just store coins directly in your pocket.

You need to ask for more than just outstanding shares, but about also liquidation preferences and convertable notes as well. Otherwise, you won't get a true understanding of the va…

How does [0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF], interpreted as a UInt32 turn into 16777215? I would have guessed 4294967295

Except what do you do if you have venture backed competitors who are willing to spend and lose huge amounts of money in the land grab for marketshare, and thus have far larger sale…

C++ (Using something like emscripten for the web) Although, i'd pick java over C++ unless i'm doing some very performance critical

"Google worked out a deal with “full service” broker to give us free accounts" That is actually really interesting. How much did this broker have to pay to get this box full of hig…

This is really the death of the mid-market mall, which are being replaced with 2 extremes - the outlet mall and the high end mall. In warm climates, malls become outdoor is the tre…

You can already get a visa-for-money from most major first world countries, and after a few years, it is easy enough to make the jump towards citizenship. Is it really that big of …

I'm really impressed, I was set on getting an apple watch until now, but this may change my mind - great form factor and style, has the sensors I'm looking for, and cross platform.…

Will having servers physically located in Germany really satisfy the privacy concern of German clients given that Amazon is still an American company subject to american laws?

I wonder how many people are foolish enough to store their bitcoin wallets on dropbox, and if the hacker has already preemptively removed the funds from those wallets.

Actions speak louder than words, and I don't see how requiring logins to view answers results in a better user experience and community. I would guess that since it is socially unc…

I'm pretty curious as to your statement 'Register jobs in Postgres, use RabbitMQ as the trigger mechanism. But this puts a burden on the processor, which now has to use two APIs.' …

I'm not sure how that helps. If you are in Silicon Valley (or NYC), then yes, you can fund raise easily and at high valuations, but you are stuck paying Silicon Valley wages. If yo…

Except that if you don't care about human readability, you might as well use a binary format and decrease size even more

Good idea, the autocomplete dialog is just too slow, which makes for an awful first impression. I should be able to just type 'lhr' and enter Instead, i need to - type 'lhr' - wait…

Private company valuations of companies based in VC are far than companies outside the valley, even with the same revenue/profit/growth potential. It sucks and doesn't make economi…

Or people who actually live overseas. I hear there is quite a few of them.

It doesnt recommends using time and date without time zone, it recommends using the right class for the right job. And sometimes the right class doesnt include a timezone Suppose y…

If you're in London, just walk into the nearest pub and use the toilet there. There there will most certainly be a nearby pub.

So is Google a startup then? They are definately trying new models and markets - Glass, self driving cars, robots, etc. How would AirBnB be any more of a startup than Google?

What's wrong with just using a library? Scala learnt XML while it was still young, when XML was just as popular as JSON is now, yet incorporating XML into the language is now consi…

Yet another link-bait title... It should be 'Oracle killed Java APPLETS'