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LilValleyBigEgoon Paying teachers more results in higher pupil performance

> P.S. I'm curious about why the United States underperforms so much compared to salaries paid to teachers in the chart shown in the submitted blog post.

Because in the US if you flunk out of high school you can still get a job at a gas station and supplement it with welfare and food programs.

In other countries if you flunk out of school you starve to death.

LilValleyBigEgoon Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe

Why you'll be losing a lot of business

LilValleyBigEgoon LocalWiki, a really easy to use geographically-based wiki, released

A desktop client when html5 exists? Really?

LilValleyBigEgoon Ask HN: What are the best ways to find and recruit interns for start up?

Set up a table on a college campus and offer anything for free (beer, t-shirts, soda, candy) in exchange for a resume.

LilValleyBigEgoon The Real Reason Italy Sucks at the Startup Game

Even if I can't accurately diagnose breast cancer I'd be happy to give it a go, hrrhrrr, say no more, eh? Eh?

LilValleyBigEgoon Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

There's that and there's also the fact that Virgin is only allowed to use iDEN towers and not CDMA towers.

LilValleyBigEgoon Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

Virgin only uses iDEN. That's why their coverage is ass. You could be standing in line sight of a tower and have zero connectivity because that tower isn't supported.

LilValleyBigEgoon Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

Thank you for not spamming anymore.

LilValleyBigEgoon Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

Virgin's coverage is ass.

LilValleyBigEgoon Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

> I'm curious as to what they would do with people who sign up and don't live in cities.

I'm guessing they'll offer it in one or two cities, call it a revolution, fail to generate revenue and fade quietly into tax write-off oblivion.

LilValleyBigEgoon Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

Well they're not really disrupting anything, they're reselling Sprint, so they're actually helping Big Carrier.

LilValleyBigEgoon Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

That phone is the LG Optimus.

LilValleyBigEgoon 82% of US tablet market owned by Apple's iPad, The Daily loses $10M

The tablet market is a solution wanting a problem, so the fact that Apple has 82% of it means very little.

LilValleyBigEgoon How do you tell nicely tell someone their requests are not in scope?

You should take a class in project management.

Seriously. It will help a lot with this type of situation.

LilValleyBigEgoon Groupon could IPO for as much as $25 Billion

It's shotgun marketing.

If you try to sell a crappy product to enough people someone will buy it.

LilValleyBigEgoon Groupon could IPO for as much as $25 Billion

Hopefully they'll figure out how to tell the difference between San Francisco and South Bay before they IPO.

LilValleyBigEgoon Apple alleged web crippling: "not to be fixed by exec order"

I've noticed a strange frequency with which Apple users use the word "cripple."

LilValleyBigEgoon OATV posted an opening for an associate. Only one woman applied.

> Find out where he gets coffee in the morning, ask the barista for an introduction.

Uh that's stalking.

LilValleyBigEgoon OATV posted an opening for an associate. Only one woman applied.

Well I guess I won't apply since I'm male.

Apparently only women are welcome to apply at OATV.

LilValleyBigEgoon Simpli.fi Raises over $2MM

Two million million dollars is a lot of money.

LilValleyBigEgoon CHAPTER 5: Representational State Transfer (REST)

Shouldn't that be RST?

LilValleyBigEgoon Your Username Will Now Serve as Your Password and Your Password as Your Username

I can't help wondering how this happened.

LilValleyBigEgoon Dubai on Empty

It's no surprise, slave labor only goes so far.

LilValleyBigEgoon HN, just wondering: How much does sleep affect your productivity?

I've discovered recently that quality sleep is very important to my health.

I was extremely anxious and had trouble focusing until I realized I wasn't able to get good sleep because of the noise from my partner's air cleaner running.

When I started sleeping in another room my mental and physical health both rapidly improved.

Regular sleep is more important for me now as an adult than it was when I was younger.