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Arguably charity is the primary moral requirement.

what exactly are you proposing as the mechanism of these power interests pushing this book? > slating for reviews, inclusion on top lists, discussions on television shows, intervie…

I think there's more to it than that. The book proposes a return to a classical rational-modern worldview with typical liberal values ("Enlightenment"). That optimistic view of the…

Saving you a click: with 95% confidence, humans are predicted to go extinct between 5,100 and 7.8 million years from now. The prediction seems neither very robust (normal distribut…

Email lists are some of the most thoughtful discussion I have been a part of in the tech industry. Whether they are about music (pho) or AI (Goertzel), they have a depth that tech …

Great. Lmk if I can facilitate an intro. You'd be joining a great list of customers: http://kontakt.io/our-customers/

Business models are very well defined. The online business models are product/service sales, subscription, retail, commission, advertising and digital licensing. The pitch types li…

The main difference, to me, is that Doctorow has a less offensive way of making the case than RMS and hence might actually be taken seriously.

They knew this was open. They even took it out of their robots.txt :) https://www.americanexpress.com/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /us/admin/ Disallow: /us/heroes/ Allow:

Even if all your arguments are true, there is absolutely no reason to believe that the "top tastemaker" also needs to be CEO of the company.

It's very addictive. One of the few use cases where I actually enjoyed the game-like features.

This reminded me of Jacques Mattheij's list of ideas for startups (see http://jacquesmattheij.com/My+list+of+ideas+for+when+you+are... ): "(45) OpenPapers A place where all academi…

They're not using a destination URL that redirects or acts as a bridge page. They're using a redirect to the destination URL.

If any HN users want to chat about integrating Qwerly, I'm the founder and available at max@qwerly.com. API is here: http://dev.qwerly.com/ .

This is one of the reasons I started Qwerly ( http://qwerly.com/ ), so the web would have portable contacts between sites and a meta-graph across all platforms.

I resubmitted this because I really do want advice.

http://qwerly.com/ I'm resubmitting this because I'd really, really like some comments from the HN community. This is not "promotional": I'm wondering where to take it next, I'm wo…

http://qwerly.com , a people search for the social web. Currently works like a whois for Twitter: put in a Twitter username, get back a page with links to that person's other socia…

I'm the founder: ask me anything.