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Okay, you win. I'll leave HN as well. I'm just a guy with a deep and abiding fascination with economics and public policy. One so deep I recently picked up a graduate degree on the…

Personally, I take the approach advocated by Benjamin Graham. I have separate accounts for investing, and speculation/trading. I just view them as fundamentally different activitie…

Frankly, reddit is a truly horrible source of information about business and the economy. The loudest commenters on those topics tend to be educated primarily via blogs. Personally…

> I think it is important that every business have a good impression of what they do, and what they do not do. If this is the case, they should ditch the banner ads. On my laptop, …

For what it's worth, I'm running 10.6 on one of my Macs, and I still have some Ports that don't work on it. In particular, I've had issues with ghc and R. Most other software (both…

The article is right for the same reason that horoscopes seem right, because it doesn't really say anything. To my knowledge, nobody intelligent was seriously suggesting that a sha…

Part of the problem is likely that some menu items are simply far worse for you than you'd guess, if you don't check the nutrition information. As an example, I was on the road rec…

Restaurant meals have grown so large that I only order an entree if I'm planning to take home a doggie-bag. If I want to actually eat all I order, I usually get two appetizers, or …

I actually had one. I switched to blu-ray because of netflix. A netflix subscription and a blu-ray player is both cheaper and more interesting than subscribing to all the premium m…

They came down, but now there are EV SSL certs that are still a couple hundred dollars/yr for a non-wildcard cert. As a business owner, I feel a bit like it's a big con game, as I …

Am I correct in thinking that a wildcard only gets you one level deep? e.g. that *.mycorp.com matches "foo.mycorp.com" but not "foo.bar.mycorp.com"?

Blu-Ray is a transition format anyway. Long-term, my money is on network-based digital distribution. It sucks... but for a couple hundred bucks, I'm fine with my blu-ray player, my…

As somebody who is over 30 and works in startups, I'd say you're right. I'd not even consider for a moment the standard YC deal ($11k + $3k/founder for 6%). When I was right out of…

Why exactly wouldn't I want a royalty on the sales?

Marketing: Meeting the needs and desires of the customer at a profit. It's a pet peeve of mine when people conflate advertising (hiring a seductive model), and some very narrow are…

I bought my car from a local dealer for a price that allowed them some profit not because I care deeply about "free oil changes", etc., but because I care about them staying in bus…

You can find a number of them on the opensolaris forums if you search on terms like 0906 iscsi, comstar 0906, etc... here's an example: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?thre…