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It's fun to be reminded of controversy that happened outside of modern memory.

Let's say a law like this did get passed. How could it even be worded? For example, if it merely says "you have to give the cops your password when a judge tells you to" then using…

Maybe it's much more of a social decision than a business decision. Early stage investors are gambling even more than late stage investors. The best they can hope for is to find 50…

Yeah, that was a TIL moment for me when I found out the body can make glucose without carbohydrate. There were others, like how mitochondria burn fat more efficiently than glucose.…

I think with business acumen you can hire all the "more" you need.

LOL, you see "a staggering amount of waste" in commercial entities and thing the way to find efficiency is to look to the government? Like government-sponsored research is going to…

"Dark time" strongly implies a subjective experience. Maybe Mark meant that was an event he personally experienced as intensely dark. That's more or less the same situation that th…

It's disingenuous to claim that because a new feature isn't making your life better means he's failing at making the whole world better. Maybe you're one of those 10-100K experimen…

Why would their body language have anything to do with the content you were hoping for? Yeah, the title is a bit more grandiose than just "Sam interviews Mark." I thought it was go…

concise, not precise

Benevolence is over rated. Competitive self-interest is at least verifiably productive.

Since a solid five minutes of the interview are devoted to Mark explaining how he never expected to start a company, let alone do anything as big as "connect the world", I don't th…

I think he means if it's important to you it's still worth trying and if you fail at least you were trying. Whereas if it's just a business, "nothing personal," then failing means …

LOL yeah, I just spoke to a dietician the other day who swore that glucose is the only thing your brain can use for fuel. It's easy to be ignorant about a situation you never exper…

I can recommend this book http://www.artandscienceoflowcarb.com/the-art-and-science-of...

From experience, you'll need to spend a lot of time learning about macros before advice on what food to eat will do you much good. For example, if someone says "eat two cups of gre…

My research indicates those 5 kilos were probably mostly water because when you go low carb your body uses up all of its glycogen, which is stored with 3-parts water, and that take…

If you're looking for a startup, something that's supposed to start cheap and scale huge in That being said, you don't have to look there. You can start a huge variety of businesse…

Yeah, I appreciate when a point is succinctly and aesthetically encoded, but not poetry for the sake of poetry. Seems like the vast majority of it is just ambiguity masquerading as…

Seemed like an okay title to me. They summarized the article at a non-technical level. That's the same title I would have written to summarize it. Maybe I wouldn't have used the wo…

Maybe all those ignorant poor people will just use the free Facebook-only internet to coordinate long enough to build their own infrastructure. Maybe a half dozen other providers w…

If you're honestly confused why a for-profit corporation needs to find a business model before they can provide a service then go back to the basics and start reading again. Charit…

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Didn't he put like 99% of his wealth into a charitable trust or something? Maybe he doesn't have much of an intention. Maybe he's just sitting on top of a rocket ship and looking a…

To be fair, Facebook was an idea that caught on, and advertising was all they could come up with to keep the lights on. I mean, I can't think of anything else they could do for rev…