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There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face. What is the point of the telecommunication tech YOU created? Did you not do a good job? There's a b…

I said don't don't punish teachers, simply fire all of them. Let charter schools compete to lure students. Personally, I'd want to see self-directed curriculums with a core of entr…

Teacher union doesn't want any kind of performance based system - they're the villain. Even if there is variability of pay, at least society would be far richer, so being poor woul…

We wouldn't be punishing teachers, just get ridding of a system that doesn't work. Salman Khan has a proposed a better one where schools are essentially libraries/babysitters that …

The government spends about $10,000 per year per child on public education. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/06/21/155515613/how-much... That's $120,000 over k-12 (not including…

This is good stuff. Even better would be small cameras that can be worn around the body so the incidents can be recorded. Yelp has already demonstrated why crowdsourcing is so impo…

The root cause is that the teaching system doesn't turn all children into businessmen. If everyone was a businessman, they'd be earning more than government set minimums.

What are the successes. Are they successful in taking children from the socioeconomic group and turning them into high earning 30 year old adults? Teaching metrics should be about …

Child care workers who watch children when parents aren't present make $19,000, that's maybe more appropriate. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/childcare-w... Where…

Boo-hoo, teachers, who cannot clearly demonstrate how they actually add economic value to anything, want to be paid even more than their current $52,000 median salary. Meanwhile, f…

The root cause of poverty is the incompetent government education system - The Teacher's Union. Most public school teachers I've come across have contempt for the businessmen (peop…

Larry Page, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Vinod Khosla should've been speaking there, get the YCers thinking big.

That doesn't sound so bad to me - sounds like capitalism - greed is good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vscG3k91s58

The flip side is does he help you succeed? You just made a case for why you should be in his portfolio - he'll go to the lengths of shady stuff to help you out. He openly admits he…

Vinod Khosla is one of the few good guy VCs out there. He's invested in high tech foods, robots, energy, healthcare, farming. He runs a Google X type fund.

Crowdfunding will replace venture capital, and investing itself to a large extent. You don't need investment, you make the case to customers directly and they prepay you.

Khan got famous for explaining concepts really well. There were plenty of online stuff covering it already. He just did a superior product. Same with the app. It needs to be excell…

I think we'll keep disagreeing about this. I think your argument comes from the traditional 'liberal arts' education angle. I'm coming more from vocational type place. More of a re…

Gamers are better at (virtual) surgery than MDs http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-11/teenage-gamers...

No, this ain't non-profit, it's big profit stuff. Khan academy is definitely not it. They teach traditional curriculum which is isn't useful to business. The app is definitely isn'…

Writing a really good app that is both enjoyable for students and a rigorous test of ability that employers are looking for is not chump work. If you can show employers that your a…

No. A free app. The data points of the app users are sold to employers.

Perfect opportunity for hackers. Employers pay big money to find employees. Students pay big money to get educated to get a job. Hackers roll in with apps that allow students to do…

The guy in the article wasn't completely moneyless, he just came up against the recurring costs of taxes/rent which can trip up the unorganized. Google car expense is overplayed. I…

Very enjoyable article. I was just thinking that recently, mobile is just a nicer experience and it's because of these cards. There was something about reading books and magazines …