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Hey NoCoiners, can you give us some coin?

I didn't appreciate the severity of the condition. My apologies if I come across as insensitive, I should have paid more attention to the original post.

I certainly don't think "the disabled just aren't trying hard enough", I think you are extrapolating quite wildly there and I find the implication quite offensive. The point I was …

I went to a school where a number of friends were not academic in the slightest. They left as soon as they could often with no qualifications but gradually learnt trades. Many now …

I think NZ could become a major tech hub over the next 15 years. The geographical isolation will be alleviated by the internet and the development of faster air travel. For anyone …

Moving towards an isolated environment is pretty much what pioneers do. If they succeed, people will follow and new networks develop.

In the seventeenth century, media shifted from manuscripts to print. Now print has shifted to digital, but with the rise of Social some of the earlier dynamics of manuscript circul…

Good point. I think it's a combination of zealot-like intensity and humble open-mindedness which wins the day. Most people are one or the other (or somewhere in between) but to com…

Sure, but I'd still want a bling tombstone (angels, cherubim, the works) to tell everyone I basically Owned It when I was alive.

How does a big ego and small ego exist in the same person at the same time? It sounds like a square triangle.

Just taken a look. I see what you mean, lots of nuances. Nice product!

Out of interest, for those who have been in the Bay Area for a while, when was the best time to live there?

Couldn't someone just do a hashtag search on Instagram? Why not just go big and do a social network for hairstyling in general? I think the social commerce angle could be great for…

Great point. Also, I think a problem is one person can only send one like. Returning to my example, I'd like to be able to give the litter picker 20 likes, and maybe the Selfie upl…

Dropbox is a utility/product/feature. It can be replaced. Snapchat is a network and therefore is open to network effects, i.e. the sum becomes greater than the parts. I think in te…

Didn't Friendfeed invent the Like button? The article goes too far but there is something to be said about its core argument. I don't think the Like button or emojis are good at re…

I'm in on this, thanks very much.

Maybe it was also just a unique period of history, never to again be repeated.

At the risk of the grossest generalisation, the Bay Area has worked because it's combined two very different types of people. On the one hand, the engineers/techies (with roots in …

I'm hoping Basic Income will be up and running by the time I hit my late 60s.

As I understand it, the "herbivore" man is rejecting the "carnivore" existence of the Japanese male executive. So he is not working every hour of the day, he is just getting by. Bu…

Tim Benners Lee refers to social "levelling". It's interesting to compare the inventors of the internet with the English Levellers of the seventeenth century. They showed great cre…

The West is following Japan in so many ways, I suppose because they had their financial crisis before us. Herbivore men, minimalist living, collapsing fertility rates, we are turni…

The prestige angle is really important as a factor in why people go to law school. I know parents who have worked every hour God gives so their son or daughter can be a lawyer - th…