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It looks like facebook likes without the rest of facebook, or did I miss something?

> But it takes a special kind of arrogance for this young man to believe that his moral judgment on the dilemma suddenly trumps that of two (incredibly different) presidents, both …

I'm trying to figure out the barrier-to-entry for scam artists, and they seem pretty low.

> Richard Stallman – the creator of GNU Emacs, the founder of GNU Did anybody think he was secretly using vi in the closet?

> Are all of these bootstrapped, or are some of them self-funded? HN doesn't seem to make the distinction, for self-funding of less than $100K. The thing I find particularly fatuou…

The poster is confusing the amount of insolvency with the value of Detroit. The value of the city far exceeds the valuation of Google.

> Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, an…

To save everyone from having to look it up: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom o…

I'm no Ch9 expert, but my understanding is that a receiver will be appointed. That person is not elected. So while the politicians retain executive power, the purse strings are tak…

I particularly like the idea of promising firefighters a too-good pension, make them run into burning buildings to save people, and then reneging on the promise now that they won't…

> Even as a credit analyst, I agree that you can't really feel sorry for the bondholders here. If you want to lend in any market, you need to assume the risk that the debtor goes b…

What I don't see in the comments yet: This is interesting not only for Detroit, but for the precedent it sets. There are 10 or 15 municipalities that will study how to screw the re…

You get used to noise is my guess. My dad grew up in New Haven in the 40s across from a fire house. When he moved out to the suburbs, he had trouble sleeping at first because it wa…

> We thought about raising funding [from family and friends] to get press. Then once the stories were done, we would just give it all back because we don’t need it. People (and the…

> Have you noticed any speed decrement in your learning curves (learning new languages or frameworks)? Hard to tell, but a speedup if anything. Once you know 5 or 6 languages, anot…

Very much so. Great quote btw. It made me google it-- seems Cory Harvey Armstrong. is the author, whoever that is.

Great questions, answers inline. > Have you encountered any agism in your line of work? None, but I might be a weird case. When I finished grad school, I was hired by TI, then Bell…

God these types of polls make me feel like a geezer. Just in case any of you whippersnappers are wondering what it feels like to start hacking in your teens and continue (in one fo…

> Pretty sure he wouldn't be able to transfer anything close to a million before lock down, unless he had clearance. Unless he started working with someone on the inside of PayPal …

The first company that makes a device which only takes a stream from any website, buffers it, and then plays it to a TV is going to own the market. Right now, every hardware compan…

I think the blog post missed the most important point of the NYT piece: Too often, he says, trials are against “a straw-man comparator” like a placebo rather than a competing drug.…

Very interesting, and not exactly news, which tells you the last time I looked at this. Obviously, I'm a dinosaur. Thanks for the pointer.

> we truly have no one in the company who has been here before, and that is a problem. I have bad news: Nobody has been there before. Perhaps they have managed $10M rev companies b…