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Reddit isn't profitable yet but is much larger and keeps its staff relatively small compared to its traffic volume.

Who said the founders/managers were going to lose in aggregate? They may have set aside a nest egg in peak years and not want to dip into that.

Love it. One bit of feedback: 'Order Your Copy' should give me a bit of text before asking me to connect with Facebook - maybe just the basics, price, etc... There just isn't quite…

I'm all for AirBNB in NYC and otherwise, but the taxation issue is the real issue. I think other laws/zoning can and should be relaxed to accommodate them, but this is business - t…

Here's another classic ... even 2006 looks so dated today: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060703/multimedia/50_science...

I would buy it as an add-on to my analog glasses at $500, assuming reasonable weight and battery life.

Main Site: Around 2000 IIRC, before it crashed, anyway. This was back in the days of Digg, and less robust hosting. Average is 150-250 at a time, less at night, more during the day…

Correct, but how certain are you that it will continue to deflate? It has already once lost 90% of its value in a short period after a parabolic rise. Could it not do that again?

If you are sure it will keep going up at this pace, why not take everything you own, sell it, and invest in (or: speculate on) Bitcoin? That's not a rhetorical question. Personally…

The prices can't stabilize if it is to reach broad adoption. That is the essence of the Catch22 going on here.

> Having enough surplus capital that we can take a three day trip to the Moon seems pretty First World to me. Today, perhaps, but in retrospect our first manned moon mission probab…

Iteration != innovation, but the two certainly can overlap in a venn diagram.

Don't confuse simplicity with poor design. Or, to rephrase that as a question: what aspect(s) of Reddit do you feel are poorly designed?

For those of us too lazy to download the app, it's unclear at a glance (from the demo) whether it only offers four starting/ending locations. Like the concept, though.

I guess I am in the majority - five years ago, I was just coming out of graduate school and gave myself three months to become 'ramen profitable'. To my amazement (and especially t…

This begs an interesting question: perhaps the way for the public to become seed investors is through diversification (i.e. index-style investing applied to small companies as well…

Not just free ones - 37signals has closed down a few things they could have sold. Sure, they'll let you continue to pay them to use their now-unsupported waste in some cases (BackP…