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Afaik many of the people who were on board to help start gem.coop have stepped back after the recent controversies with Andre Arko, at this point I don’t think it will ever be anyt…

Genuine question: how do you take something which you have already been paying for? They removed other maintainers access to their AWS account, and one of them had allegedly taken …

It's been a while but if memory serves me correctly the controversy at that time was actually about him unilaterally deciding that people at basecamp shouldn't be talking about pol…

My understanding is that building subways in LA is costlier and more labor-intensive than in a lot of the cities you mentioned, but the subway system is currently undergoing a mass…

Wow, this is utter shit. There is literally nothing here. No wonder he was going 70+ days without being paid.

I thought you were just being petty until I tried to read it. There is so just much context switching without any clues at all to the reader, it is really jarring.

A good friend of mine recently was able to purchase a home in the Bay Area (we're in our late 20's). It has been absolutely fascinating the last few months watching his views towar…

Correct. But none of those entities are controlling transportation infrastructure in the United States. They're manufacturing vehicles or parts necessary for those vehicles, or con…

I'm not sure I follow. I just sat here with my 6S trying various ways of holding it for a good 10 minutes, and I can't figure out for the life of me what you're talking about when …

What? Who paid for Windows 10? I thought Windows 10 is supposed to be free?

A simple Googling will help you answer this query: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-bank...

It just keeps getting better (or worse, depending on if you invested with him)... In addition to failing to settle a huge short position, he managed to turn $1.12 million into $58,…

> On or about December 2, 2010, Investor 1 [...] asked SHKRELI in an email about, inter alia, the fund's assets under management and the names of its independent auditor and fund a…

Well, seeing as it's only been 958 days since they promised improved customer service, we should really cut them some slack here..

Care to go into a little more detail for those of us who are curious what it is that makes speed limit laws so complex?

> The US and other countries have two sets of data protection rules that govern police and security services. One set of rules for residents of that country (e.g. US persons) or do…

> It perplexes me why they don't shift their delivery period six hours later to start at 15:00 and end at 21:00. That would cover both business and residential hours. I would imagi…

While this indictment makes it clear what he is charged with, it doesn't seem to imply any sort of motive. Any ideas? Another article on the subject[1] gives me the impression that…

This is actually not true as far as fallout is generally concerned -- "air bursts" of nuclear weapons have shown to have a smaller fallout than similar sized ground blasts. Part of…

> Harvard waives fees altogether for families making less than $65,000. More than 60% of US households have income less than that+, yet only 20% of Harvard's undergraduate class pa…

Most engineering programs (at least in the US) have students sign documents that state that the University will own the copyright to anything that they create in labs or for Univer…