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Parents. Savings. Welfare. Thrift. The article's point is that for many poor people getting a shitty job that only pays enough for rent and food is pointless when you can get rent …

OH NO! I CAN'T DOWNLOAD MY PIRATED SOFTWARE AND MOVIES!

The irony is... running back to native platforms because the web sucks is exactly why the web still sucks.

Awesome. Doesn't have a way to generate revenue, but hey that doesn't matter to Silicon Valley! I bet you could go sell it for $10k

Today I learned Hacker News is filled with libertarian ideologues. It's amazing that people who pride themselves in critical thinking and problem solving (hackers), can actually be…

Whether he votes with his dollars or not is irrelevant to the fact that selectively presenting the truth to influence people is dishonest.

Except the founder gets paid either way, and paid more than anyone else usually. If the business goes bust nobody takes his house, or his things - he just finds another job or star…

And running adverts wouldn't destroy a huge portion of the userbase?

I'll bite. Here's why I don't think Twitter is profitable or will be: 1) No ads. I don't see any now. "But, they can add advertisements later!" No they can't. Adding advertisements…

Taxing income higher than capital gains encourages investment over consumption.

I run my own mail server with a roundcube frontend interface, for $5 a month (if that) on Amazon EC2. What's the point of SSL in Gmail if Google has your certs?

Pass a bill requiring the budget to be balanced. It's that simple.