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More than 62 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, maybe they were the ones up voting stories on 4chan and Reddit because they agree with him.

Maker Time is an alternative time keeping system I designed after being inspired by this essay. http://willholloway.net/makertime.html

You know you are in a regulation bubble when the caution and judgement of the most highly trained professionals in our society is reflexively concluded to be inadequate and inferio…

Me too.

Personal happiness doesn't factor in to it, missing very early bitcoin was a result of flawed thinking, which I intend to correct.

Be careful with these negative HN comments, they have cost me millions. I first heard about bitcoin right here, when it hit $3 per coin for the first time. That was a huge event. I…

What I got from reading Paul Graham's own writing on the genesis of YC, was that his key insight was that VC's should be funding more companies, and earlier, and giving founder's m…

Check ebay, packs from hover boards that got recalled are available. The cost can be $1 a cell, a pack might have 20. Each cell might be 10-12 watt hours. It takes 3 cells to produ…

Jehu Garcia's Youtube videos are definitely worth checking out, the guy is doing cool things with 18650 lithium ion cells. He converted a VW bus into an electric vehicle. My main t…

A major problem with anonymous sources is not just the inability to verify the claims, even more troubling is the inability to assess the motives of the source and their context an…

What is really dangerous is the mainstream media (NY Times, Washington Post) running stories based solely on anonymous sources. The public has no capacity to vet the credibility of…

Yes but in the universe of knowledge work, what is work and what is not-work? Do we count work as "being in the office/lab"? Or do we count work as thinking about the problem? If o…

Agreed, a tremendous work with a dream like quality, a phantasmagoria contrasting vapid American consumer culture, against bloody reality in the lands the great powers toy with. Al…

I think you can look at the alleged Russian hacking of Podesta's emails and the subsequent releases as an example of that perhaps. But I wouldn't hold out too much hope for an outp…

"It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feuda…

It's not about short-term masochism, it's about focus. The human brain is non-scalable neural network.It only has so much bandwidth. The things that create/capture enough value to …

It's very inspiring that you were able to build out an idea like this on a hobby level and get it into YC. Don't let the negativity in this thread get you down. You will work out a…

Many places treat these types of dwellings as mobile homes, and there is probably no form of development that is more widely banned than mobile home parks. Even putting one of thes…

Buy, rehab, rent, refinance distressed residential property. I also manage two commercial properties. I was born into it, but then didn't want to do it after college. I got back in…

Well there is Bigger Pockets, and some of their video podcasts on Youtube are quite good when they interview a knowledgeable guest. They are pretty honest about things, but I feel …

It's definitely worth looking into, look for good deals and the money is there if you can find a good enough deal, if you have some wealthy contacts looking for an opportunity. Hig…

I took a break from coding/ops for other people for money a couple years ago to pursue a startup idea I had. It was a cool project but I decided it wasn't a great business idea due…

Why is this the default answer to any discussion on topics such as these? I look at it as Vaudeville acts vs Hollywood films. Or local hack community college professor vs Youtube S…

This man speaks the truth, downvoters. Anyone who has ever done any significant renovations on an old house knows the problems with aging housing stock. I would go even further and…