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Let's say a VC investor invests $500,000 into a startup, I don't think they'd be keen to know that $50,000 of it gets passed straight to you and doesn't go toward building the prod…

Total agree with your second point, what scenario in life are we in where all the people we socialise with are our own exact age? If anything, homeschooled children become naturall…

OrbitRemit works well for the countries they support, they also periodically throw in free transfers if you use them regularly enough.

I think the most compelling argument surely, is that it's just more fun. You actually feel like you're driving, it makes it more of an active experience. Recently sold a manual car…

Spin Selling by Neil Rackham It's not the 'latest techniques', but tried and true consultative selling (being a doctor, finding out what's wrong and figuring out a solution for you…

The phrasing mostly, he/she was painting with very broad brush strokes.

"...because of their Israeli origin..." I realise why you've said this, but when you take a step back, surely you can see this kind of sentiment is bordering on anti-Semitism?

What time do you usually go to sleep?

Actually, you'd be keeping people in prison who you know have a disregard for the law, and decide for themselves what they think is okay. They are criminals, they broke the law at …

Was it Staffjoy? https://github.com/Staffjoy/suite

OrbitRemit works very well for us

I think it's more the lifestyle that coding can lead to, right? e.g. if coding leads to a lifestyle of poor exercise, sleep quality and diet, or a combination of all of those, then…

Pocket or Kindle

By definition, science can test and prove natural phenomena by identifying laws of physic etc. Science is useless in testing or proving supernatural phenomena but that doesn't nece…

Really? That's the business you've automated?? Care to share some more details on the process?

I believe he(?) was saying '100% my own products' was his end goal, he's not yet there.

Aghh, this is what it feels like to have a migraine with aura, except that with a migraine your vision looks like this no matter what you're looking at.

I'm pretty sure Mailchimp is 100% bootstrapped, which is an impressive achievement for a freemium offering.

Sorry I missed the 'later in life' in your original comment. Either way, I'm pretty sure the author of this article didn't have that condition in mind when he penned the sentence.

When that happens, it's most likely because that person has a weak immune system, correct? So what evidence do we have to say that person wouldn't have died from the next disease t…

It's extremely low likelihood of death compared to other more lethal diseases. I'm pretty sure AIDS, leukemia or malaria are more lethal to children than measles is. And as far as …

Exactly...correlation does not imply causation. Better sanitation, access to clean water, access to better medication and healthcare could also be related

Over the years improvements such as clean water, sanitation, medicine, access to healthcare etc have also improved. The 2.6 million deaths per year were mostly from Africa right? D…

"Measles is one of the most contagious and most lethal of all human diseases." Okay, I'm not a scientist, but I'm pretty sure that sentence is not accurate. The percentage of peopl…