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"New graduate Mette Schjelderup has just joined her young husband's business Douchebags, a sports equipment luggage company that was launched last year, and already sells its produ…

Kickstarter should claim safe-harbor as they are a conduit. This case means they open themselves up to being required to censor every project for every jurisdiction. Kickstarter ap…

1] If you can visit a local telco wire office, go do so; especially with all these questions in mind. Telcos have dealt with this problem way before most of us were born. 2] Use DN…

centre? lol You must not be American. We're busy complaining about the DoJ, IRS, and two administrations that don't have control of their bureaucracies. You know, the things that m…

lol. Imagine Chris Yeh as your dad. And what life with a bunch of filters would be like... I got the opposite lesson out of skating since we had to negotiate with cops all the time…

Reading between the lines... 1] Military has too big a delta over civilians; how can I help reduce that delta sanely? 2] Too much of our communications remains plaintext; how do I …

Don't leave it for the mega-shops (goog, aapl, amzn) to create. After all, casinos use tokens instead of cash for a reason....

rough consensus, running code This is too much talk, not enough code. Whoever wants PKI needs to put together a POC and release it into the wild.

Actually, it's probably the age correlation. yay for hidden third variable. ;)

It's not easy to appreciate where money can be best spent in terms of improving the quality of our lives at a given income level. What expenses or services have you found to be wel…

Yay. We label Uriel a troll and not Pando Daily or any other daily controversy generators.

Cartel's business model still intact

The Author set me up big time; I was expecting his 'Orientalism' to presage some kind of reconciliation of his anti-war preconceptions with an understanding of war informed by his …

lol. Saverin Sr leaves a country before it gets too dangerous => Applause Saverin Jr leaves a country before it gets too dangerous => Boo

The profit maximization puzzle usually involves tax minimization. Just because startups typically ignore it doesn't mean it doesn't have value.

~20M dollar exit; in the US, trusts have to pay out 5% per year; he has a ~1M income provided the trust invests well.

The US Tax Code incents US citizens to drop their citizenship before they have 2M USD in net worth. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/877

"The entire industry is predicated on a 2% success rate, and Google made its fortune by increasing that to 3%. It’s still a 97% failure rate." A 0.00small% success rate is spam. A …

i figure everyone writes their own. i wrote http://planhack.com

and no IPv6. granted, getting rid of NAT probably means Skype dies

How many people googled Jamey Rodemeyer? It seems boyd's article revolves around our relationship with media. We look back a century and the political papers and non-stop sensation…

unlol. Trolling with intent to kill... although to get back to the lulz, it's Trolling with Intent to Bikini Kill ;)

Reducing the usefulness of the Internet sucks as tactics go. SOPA advocates are taking the war to the legislative process since they're losing elsewhere. Let's answer by raising th…

Modern Psychology Rocked by Motivation Discovery Chiba, Japan -- For decades, eminent psychologists had struggled with what exactly motivates people. Today all those theories have …

What do you like about their writing? A good (constant) exercise is to edit what people write, e.g. take an Altucher post and try rewriting it to make it better in some regard. Hun…