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University of Waterloo (one of if not the biggest tech/entrepreneurial oriented universities in Canada) has pretty progressive IP policies. Namely that it is "creator-owned" https:…

If you put in the requisite time and energy to learn photography and achieve a certain level of skill you could theoretically do 1 or 2 $4000 weddings a week. This is of course con…

I think it less about who you are more afraid of, but who you can do something about. It's not so simple to change the government that you're under.

I think it is difficult for most people to conceptualize how short a time period that is since they haven't even lived that long.

I believe there was an article a while back that showed it was trivial to track a person by their use of vocabulary and grammar style. But it's probably still better to use a pseud…

I'd like to point out that alcohol does reduce inhibition but doesn't actually cause you to perform any action you wouldn't willingly do sober.

Monopolies never work. Check out 'The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires' by Tim Wu http://amzn.to/JGc0zv History will only repeat itself, but with greater and…

Could someone perhaps take the relevant suggestions from this HN discussion and modify a fork of the repo? I would do it myself, but I don't think I am proficient enough at CSS to …

Is this why ebooks in general are so expensive? I always wondered why digital copies cost as much as the physical ones, and I always thought the publishers were just being greedy.

I think the OPs concern is more with his lack of experience combined with his age. Not just that he's in his 30s, but that he's in his 30s and has almost no work experience. I'm pr…

I don't have first-hand, or even second-hand experience of war. I can only go by what I read in articles like this. But logically, the author is making a lot of sense. Any apathy o…

Thanks for the link. I'm not a frequent user of Appsumo. How long do deals like this last? Do you have to be logged in to take the course: as in, can only the purchaser take the co…

My dad's business is having a hard time finding a good copywriter. We might hire a freelancer for some urgent work, but since the business revolves around a somewhat monolithic sys…

My initial reaction was DON'T BE EVIL. But after some thought and some reading, I realize that technology advances and we don't know what the results and consequences will be until…

A bit torn on the issue and don't have a strong opinion either way. I slightly lean towards they shouldn't have to hand over the password, but I really thing courts should try to b…

Could the higher IQ scores be a result of the popularization of the internet in the last couple decades? Moving from a platform that spoon-feeds you information to a platform which…