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Here's a link to the original HN discussion from September 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975

Rent seems to be at least 50% higher in SF though[1]. How is that? [1] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

Fiat currency is valueless and can only be used because people trust the government issuing it. If Bitcoin can gain the trust of enough people, it can easily become more 'valuable'…

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/12/navy-to-drop-all-caps-communications/

PG does seem to make this differentiation: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story abo…

I don't want to be too rude, but to quote the hn guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups…

>Start by deciding what you want to do I was recently pointed towards Principles[1] by Ray Dalio by someone here on HN, and I highly recommend it. He talks about getting what you w…

I keep my eye out for Vidyard video's around the web, but the lack of branding makes it hard to tell where it's from. But I guess that's the point. Congratulations on the milestone…

I'm still in school; just finished 3A, so ive got a pretty fresh look at things. It seems to me Waterloo's stature is rising in The Valley, and they are offering more jobs. I had a…

I'm just running off personal experience here (I've been through the Velocity Residence and Eng), but of the 10 smartest kids I know, all but one is in The Valley/Seattle. I think …

Being a Waterloo engineer, I agree with this wholeheartedly. Perhaps even more importantly, I'd say the top talent disproportionatly dreams of getting out of Waterloo. Most quality…

Perfect for local business shops too. Think of a local flower shop, I bet birthday orders could be huge for that type of thing. It scales decently as well if the business adds itse…

I believe instagrams web app is designed this way. Meaning they don't really have a web app.

Musk is one of my hero's, but his first company was a web start up that help publisher's get news articles and other content online. He then built a money management system, which …

Microsoft is eyeing consumers with this announcement, and once consumers switch, they will adapt to the new interface. Once consumers adapt to the new interface, the overhead that …

Re-reading this made me think about how honest the start-up communities "test's" are.

> America was not actually founded solely on "tired and poor masses yearning to breathe free", but on a huge takeover and displacement plan for the native Americans. America wasn't…

Cal Newport of at Study Hacks [1] has been talking about this type of stuff for a while. He approaches what he might call "a philosophy of deeply thinking about hard problems" from…