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The short reviews also have another benifit, they seem more factual and reliable. A long emotional rant nearly always looses all credibility with me, even if they had justifiable complaint.

Good point - on Should I Invest In Crowdfunding?

"Crowdfunding has a bit of an adverse selection problem, where only companies which are insufficiently attractive to more professional angels .... go"

"The best way to attack a competitor is to find their soft underbelly and tear it to shreds with tooth and claw. Ideally, it’s something they are not able to change in response to your attack. Slack’s soft underbelly is their pricing model. "

"Marketing is war. You are fighting for your company’s life, by way of attention and sales. If you aren’t willing to go to war, you might as well surrender and go home and knit cat stuff for Etsy."

I would like an Amazon Prime Air to deliver my new car plz.

double upvote

"DFAS also could not make accurate year-end Army financial statements because more than 16,000 financial data files had vanished from its computer system."

I am impressed. I did an internship at a financial company and helped do end of month closing balance adjustments. We had a onsite and remote paper copy storage of each document, an onsite server room that hosted a copy, a off site tape copy and an offsite digital back up. Hard to think of what must have happened to get that level of mishap.

this is a great point. currently millions of individual errors are made by people that cause accidents. the future is 1 software exploited bug can cause millions of accidents. I am assuming overall software will have less fatalities but it would be interesting to see predictions on how the two would compare.

this is true, however he wrote in his personal blog that:

"Never in that process did I experience any pressure to “fill beds” in the private prisons we built. And if I had, it wouldn’t have worked. It might happen elsewhere, but it absolutely did not happen in New Mexico when I was Governor. At the time, the “per-prisoner” cost in the state prisons was $76 per day. The cost to house prisoners in the private facilities was $56 per day. Better service, lower cost."

this just makes me glad that Garry Johnson is campaigning on criminal justice reform. From his website

"How is it that the United States, the land of the free, has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world? The answer is simple: Over time, the politicians have “criminalized” far too many aspects of people’s personal lives.

The failed War on Drugs is, of course, the greatest example. Well over 100 million Americans have, at one time or another, used marijuana. Yet, today, simple possession and use of marijuana remains a crime — despite the fact that a majority of Americans now favor its legalization.

And who is most harmed by the War on Drugs? Minorities, the poor, and anyone else without access to high-priced attorneys."

> They do a little more than "root for war"

that is so sad all the stats in the link you posted. hopefully with the rise of the internet and everyone becoming connected we can raise awareness and not let things like that happen anymore.

that is any interesting connection. the for profit prisons seem to be worse than the govt run counterparts, but for profit schools seem to vary on the effectiveness with their govt counterparts. i would guess there would be some inverse corelation btwn the avg age of the student and overall effectivness of the school - my experience is that the private schools for highschool and younger seem to do better, while college for profit seem to do worse.

>end to mass violence and cruelty would be infinitely more valuable than any of those things (except for clean energy).

clean energy is infinitely more valuable than end to mass violence? That seems like a bit of an overstatement.

move to a developing nation. i spent 2 yrs on a service mission for mexico. really opened my eyes to how different life is for people outside the US. simple things like mobile phone banking are huge game changers in these countries. go and look around for awhile and you will find some big opportunities.

key point - "spacex has yet to actually reuse any of its vehicles"

bad choice of ads - at the end of the article there was a little date widget to "find a hotel near lake Nyos" and choose your departure date and return date.

if police are about to shoot, and have good cause to, then it would seem reasonable that they be allowed to use sleep gas or tranquilizer, similar to what doctors use during operation. Seems better than killing them.

Downside could be lawsuites against the police for "damages" that the sleep gas caused.

Do you have periscope installed on your phone? You can live broadcast video to twitter at the press of a button.

If you truly believe your life is in danger, and since you already have your phone out it would provide some level of protection if you inform the officer that you are filming the encounter. Make sure you have the screen locked activted and then you can film even with the screen turned off.

do a startup

any cost they would save on cooling would be lost on the incredibly expensive repairs process of getting the pods out of water or getting someone down there to fix it.

"But Markov chains aren't just useful for automatically generating Paul Graham essay parodies. They're also quite practical. You might even say Markov chains are a large part of what powers today's internet. Most remarkably, to me at least, Markov chains underly Google's trillion dollar PageRank formula:"

1) you left the domain in 2005 and are "waiting for the right opportunity to get back in" because it became "relevant"

2) meanwhile some other company has been working on a similar product and wants to buy your domain

3) you didn't think they offered you enough for your domain

4) now you want to sue them

5) this looks like a classic domain troll / hording. sell the domain.

"Some, such as Yorgen Edholm, CEO of cloud company Accellion, insist Clinton's policy proposals — especially on cybersecurity and data privacy — offer "platitudes" that are "thin on specifics.""

"Although there have been some recent minor steps in a positive direction concerning copyright in the EU, politicians have been trying to undermine them with really terrible ideas. We already covered the push to effectively outlaw outdoor photography,"

"and a legacy of British exceptionalism that dates back to the British Empire -- contributed to the vote's outcome. "The idea that they were just another European country was a blow to their pride," he said. "They couldn't take that.""

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other

   Stewart Brand

The FBI and other government institutions often ask for the help of the tech industry, and act like they want to build bridges but actions like this show a double standard.

They are like your annoying needy friend. Always asking you for stuff but never bothering to return the favor.

Going out on a tangent - Would California be more successful leaving the US as an independent country?

As things stand, California is currently the eighth largest economy in the world on their own. 17 of the top 30 U.S. tech companies are in California, which should come as no surprise. Tourism, entertainment, biotech, and agriculture are multibillion dollar industries already. Aerospace and defense contracts still rake in around $25bn a year. And many state business leaders are increasingly showing a real commitment to renewable energy.

Overall, while I believe there is definitely more potential for a social democratic style of government if California were its own country, the changes would not be that drastic. Barring a major collapse, California would, like Canada, still remain in the U.S.'s economic and cultural shadow. And who knows? Secession might be the best thing to happen to other states like Texas, New York, and Massachusetts. Who else would be capable of filling the void left in the energy, media, and technology industries? There is certainly upside in such a move but also a great deal of risk.

Going out on a tangent - Would California be more successful as an independent country rather than as a state of the US?

As things stand, California is currently the eighth largest economy in the world on their own. 17 of the top 30 U.S. tech companies are in California, which should come as no surprise. Tourism, entertainment, biotech, and agriculture are multibillion dollar industries already. Aerospace and defense contracts still rake in around $25bn a year. And many state business leaders are increasingly showing a real commitment to renewable energy.

Overall, while I believe there is definitely more potential for a social democratic style of government if California were its own country, the changes would not be that drastic. Barring a major collapse, California would, like Canada, still remain in the U.S.'s economic and cultural shadow. And who knows? Secession might be the best thing to happen to other states like Texas, New York, and Massachusetts. Who else would be capable of filling the void left in the energy, media, and technology industries? There is certainly upside in such a move but also a great deal of risk.

Must read take on Thiel's vendetta proxy lawsuit and the collateral damage that will follow in its precedence