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I must thank you for giving me enough motivation to finally leave hacker news. I was listening to the new import this podcast, with ken reitz, wherein they were discussing the nega…

Philosophically, I disagree: taxes are for the public necessity, not the public good. Roadways, fire/police, civil governance = necessity. Granted, there is a lot of grey area. But…

This is easily disprovable, via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...

Can you elaborate? My understanding is that most merchant accounts are in the 2% + .45 range. Are you suggesting that merchant margins depend on a 1% margin?

I disagree, mostly because you presented your opinion as black and white. Apple has, what, > 10k workers? If it cost them $100 billion to prevent one software worker from getting c…

What does f2p stand for? Although I'm cynical enough to not expect this, things could be partitioned into "grant access to people with no payment on file" and "need payment on file…

I'm not sure of your point. Cocaine does have legal uses, especially with ENT doctors/surgeons, who use it as an effective anaesthetic. But the profit margins in the illegal drug m…

I was going to upvote you until I saw your edit about downvoting. I believe you should state your mind without concern for arbitrary internet points. If you express concern over th…

I frequently wonder - is Facebook allowed to say, "bing, you can crawl us. NewCompetitor, you cannot." I feel like once a company allows public access by posting stuff on the web, …

IANAL, but that sounds either like you can't do all of those things together (the "and" conjunction), or you can't even read the website. After all, if you can't download it, you c…

I"d like to add that I'm also OK with Facebook/Google/whomever making money off that. I think it's just a spectrum of perspective. One side is privacy concerns, the other is the wi…

One final thing - be resourceful. You have to call, email, visit, get referrals to, use linkedin (seriously, linkedin is great for b2b companies because people on Linkedin actually…

You seem to be on the right path by saying you want to work with 10 of them. However, it doesn't sound like you're ready for your first customers, since you haven't talked with any…

> I don't exercise as I yet have to see data showing me that exercise will increase lifespan by longer than the time invested doing it. Add the opportunity cost of the lost time to…

Referring to their decision to go print-only as "DRM" is inflammatory. It's a book, dude. Not a piece of technology that allows publishers to control your access. It has it's limit…

- Fair natural resource utilization (water, petrol, etc.) - Increasing political instability in totalitarian regimes - America will struggle with not having such a high standard of…

Any idea what the error bars are on that .7% figure?

Side point - it's likely you had many more "visitors" than the Bing Bot is the worst at this. They hammer my sites, send me zero traffic, and don't appear to allow me to control th…

How so? I always thought mail in rebates were a good way to experiment with the price-sensitivity of the purchase. Is that the feedback you mean?

I was curious, so I looked at US fertility rates by state. Fortunately, wikipedia has a nice chart. The birth rates do appear to be higher in Western states than in the east. http:…

I am unfamiliar with this history, but it sounds fascinating. Can you elaborate a little more, or point me to an article discussing this?

Yes. Am in San Diego on Cox Cable.

Mind maps don't imply a hierarchy. This change in how a problem is structured can alter how you think about it. (It's basically a different data structure, which makes it easier or…

And their focus over the next few years is to be the cloud computing company for businesses. Had a salesforce VP tell me recently that SF wants to dominate non-CRM software (e.g., …

San Diego recently removed their cameras because they found that they were put at intersections designed to maximize revenue, regardless of the pre-RLC safety. They also found that…