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I live in Alaska where billboards are banned, and it’s lovely. The ugliness of outdoor advertising is one of the first things I notice when traveling in most of the continental Uni…

Seems like my experience may not have been typical. I used Bench from 19-23 for a startup and always felt like I was getting great service. I agree that they were a bit expensive, …

Location: Pacific Northwest Remote: Yes (Preferred) Willing to relocate: not right now. Technologies: Javascript (Node, Angular, TS, Front-End Tech) Résumé/CV: jakecarpenter.com Em…

Agreed, the world would be a simpler place if we all followed the same play book...for online communication and everything else. But we don't, and we probably can't. Cultural, lang…

There weren't tax increases, we don't have taxes to increase. We use oil tax and PF revenue to fund our government almost exclusively. Some municipalities and cities have sales/pro…

I agree that regulation is a good idea. Throughout history, news and facts have always been provided to most people by groups with vested interests in controlling the prevailing na…

That is a little too reductionist. It can hold a lot of things. Millions of people get all of their facts and information from live video. A lot of it is delivered by cable tv righ…

Congrats! Facebook could not have gotten anybody better to make live video awesome. I'm excited to see what the future holds for the fb/vidpresso combo.

To me, it is about what they are able to create independently, and the value of the end product. Senior people have made the right mistakes, wasted weeks of time, and know what to …

Addiction. It affects so many of us-maybe all of us-greatly. Our legal system, education system, healthcare system are all heavily burdened by it, and they all treat it differently…

Awesome Randall, keep killing it in 2014!

Your loss, it is a good read. Tumblr can't possibly be the only place you're exposed to uncomfortable opinions on the interwebs, can it?

Accepted! Finally! Flying in from Juneau, AK

It seems like getting a wide enough adoption to make this useful would be really tough, since as soon as you started to get traction (if at all) you'd get bought by someone who was…

We're trying to create a few startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394844

The more the merrier. We now have a website and a Google Group. website: http://www.startuporshutup.org Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/startup-or-shut-up edit: added …

Follow the discussion at: http://notes.avaaz.org/kRBXB8P1Ci

Well, this whole thing is pretty off-the-cuff, but I'll hang out in the ##startup2012 freenode channel, and maybe we can come up with something a little more formal.

1. Good Question. I (and a lot of others around here, I think) 'jump' head first into projects on our own all the time, and stay totally committed for like the first week. I've got…