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Youtube started as an easy place to watch pirated movies.

Exactly. People tend to overstate the importance of spurious, surprising findings that don't make scientific sense. Some of these may lead to breakthroughs, sure. But the overwhelm…

This is a harsh thing to say and here goes. This article and its response are boring. They're what happen when you take a high-stakes situation (union creation, scabs, overworked g…

I think the general U.S. population is okay with monopolies that make their lives better. Apple will continue to push the envelope. Developers can fight back (does anyone remember …

Skimmed your two submissions and have 2 suggestions-- 1) cull your words relentlessly. 2) write in a reader-centric, not you-centric way. Your articles don't grab reader interest.

What does outschool offer that khanacademy doesn't have?

Agreed. It's funny seeing replies here. Making people feel bad about themselves doesn't get very far in influencing their viewpoints. A lot of smart people disagree with higher min…

Isn't 40 hours short enough?

This is exactly right, but in my opinion usually not important. If Joe Public, or a competitor, or whoever knows how many posts you have, users you have, administrators you have, e…

This doesn't fit everywhere, but... 1) Never modify existing tables (okay, almost never). 2) Add new tables at will. 3) Pay a consultant to write PL/SQL that glues it all together …

You'd think TurboTax would have clear scripts for their frontline representatives to deal with this fairly and quickly. Rip the band-aid off all at once, so to speak. There's not e…

The irony here is I made a comment below calling Techcrunch's headline out for (as I see it) unfairly calling the Chinese PUBG "government-friendly" and implying undue censorship. …

Yawn. The headline suggests there's some assault on liberty here. But by "government-friendly" Techcrunch means Chinese PUBG doesn't show corpses and blood, and that it paints Chin…