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how about custom domains? are they more or less trustworthy than a gmail/hotmail/yahoo account?

do you have a source?

How do you deal with blisters? I tried barefoot running, made it about 1/10th of a mile, and had to walk back on my heels because my feet were raw and bleeding. I had large blister…

Was your post antagonistic towards the YC company or removed for an otherwise valid and transparent reason? If hacker news is removing posts by competitors, or giving their startup…

What's the current cost per base pair? Is a significant portion of the funding really going into synthesis? Do you foresee synthesis costs falling quickly? It seems like its a majo…

We are discussing a puzzle games. Part of that will be discussing puzzles. Maybe don't read comment threads talking about things you don't want any more information about.

"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel." - Neil Gaiman, "Neverwhere"

Didn't pg say there was a self-driving car startup? I don't see it.

Did he mention 'strong ai'? or is the 'exo-cortex' basically really good siri/google now?

Its worth noting that the Keith Hennessey's entire blog is anti-democratic party's economic policy. He has only worked under republican congressmen and presidents. This is hardly a…

Do you have any sources on alternative systems of accountability for doctors? Or that go a bit more in depth about how they are unique in self-regulation? I haven't heard of this b…

Couldn't you get the same benefit by just using the Arduino bootloader and including a USB connection? That way things could be reprogrammed in the arduino environment and you coul…

So hackernews doesn't have PM's. If you don't mind letting me pick your brain a bit about startups/research/neuroscience, shoot me an email at cantsayimpleased@gmail.com (or put yo…

I second airbnb. Advantages over craigslist and the like for subletting: You can sort by availability dates. A lot of craigslist postings start three months from now, I saw people …

The tragic thing about this is it doesn't have to be that way. People would look at Intellectual Ventures in a really positive light if it was actually doing lots of research, and …

Why is this quote worth considering or insightful? What does it add to the discussion? Have you done half of those things? Did you really get anything out of it? Some insects speci…

I'm not as skilled as I need to be to pursue the ideas that excite me, and I am not excited about the ideas that I am skilled enough to pursue.

Come on, you can't say something like that without giving a single example....

Do you mind saying why you don't find thousands of scientific articles published in a wide variety of journals compelling?

This seems like one of those ideas that sounds really good until you start to think about it.

I would argue that biology without equations is just as useless as physics or chemistry without them. Yes, its interesting to know about evolution and how cells work, but to intera…

Why didn't they give the non-management murder statistic? Or the percentage of fatalities that were in management?

This is actually what those sponser-a-child/build-a-well/kiva type charities do. For example, go to kiva and you'll see a bunch of people you can lend money to. These people alread…

An online college has a lot of startup costs, unless you're just making a diploma mill. You need to get enough profs to teach a degree's worth of classes, especially if you're gett…