bwilliams18

So encourage your kids to be interesting people, don't create an artifical construction of interestingness.

If you want a good education then an elite school isn't necessary. If you want access to people and an unparalleled network, then your best option is an elite school.

What if patents could only be held by individuals and not corporations?

I assume they have your credit card and will charge you a larger amount if they don't get it back.

I think word is actually one of the better tools to do this.

This reads like someone who doesn't have an understanding of the enormous power that word has hiding under it's shell.

I'm still confused as to why Apple hasn't considered purchasing Tesla.

No security at Teterboro. Or most other private airports for that matter. Just a Customs check if you're going international.

Pre-Check is great, when you have it, and did not exist from 2001 until the concorde shut down in 2003, thus was a significant factor.

It is probably safe to say that almost anyone flying on the concorde at the time would have pre-check today.

I went to Bennington for two years, and while it has that reputation, and there are some rich kids running around (myself included), there are a surprising number of working and middle class kids going there, and then coming out of school with no prospects.

Anecdotally, there are a surprising number of waiters, baristas, and other people doing jobs that are in no way informed by their years of study.

"You are never stuck in traffic"

Clearly you've never ridden the subway in NYC during rush hour. Most of the major lines will have some delays, you'll have to wait for multiple trains to pass before you can get on, or once you're on the train will stop because "we are waiting for train traffic ahead".

Generating that list certainly qualifies as 'fake work'.

Right, but that still doesn't mean there is innovative technology involved. Can I call a tailor a technology company because they have a website?

If you're a developer and want to work on restaurant stuff message me.

One thing the HN audience might find particularly interesting. BAM is owned by the league, and thus the teams and their myriad web of small owners, some of whom see their ownership of BAM as more valuable than their team.

It seems to me like the biggest problem is implantable devices vs external devices. Anything that would require surgery to recall should have much more strenuous testing than something you could simply remove and replace without seeing a doctor. Especially because so many of these implantable devices end up in older people where the risks of complications from surgery go up so much.

I wouldn't describe the Atom as a true production car.

And Operation Earnest Voice wouldn't be targeting US Citizens. Yes I understand they would still end up being part of it, but that isn't the primary goal, it also isn't being used in the same expressly political manner.

The money comes from advertising that is placed on searches.

Try-On Appointments won't reveal this problem as the watch you get to try on is just running a demo loop.

I think the actual reading of the plates is a much harder problem than "Smartphone captures license plates" otherwise, I concur, fundable.

the SVS is accurate across the horizontal plane, but not across the vertical plane. I couldn't trust a water bath without active circulation ( I use a Sainsare at home, and at work, we use PolyScience circulators)

In the US "natural" monopolies are allowed to exist, the best example of this being Microsoft with their Windows operating system. What isn't permissible, is using that monopoly to advantage your other products, and possibly more importantly disadvantage products of your competitors.

This is a shitty remake of a NYTimes article: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-s...

Important to know–they're almost certainly talking about the race in Silverstone England. That's about a 30 min drive.(https://goo.gl/maps/EdR4q) So fast, but technically not nearly as difficult as connecting to Malaysia.

I really hope we get one more vergecast with all three of them.

thats actually potentially helpful.

I don't think they need to do that. The people who would do this expensing probably already have a company credit card plugged into uber, and an assistant to handling the actual expensing process from an emailed receipt.

This American Life did a great story on car dealerships[0]. Basically, dealers have a number they have to hit every month, and they're basically incentivized to sell cars and be willing to take thousands of dollars loss to hit the number because if they get below the number they don't receive any bonuses, and the bonuses are the principal form of cashflow to both the dealers and salesmen.

[0]http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1...

I don't understand why they don't go through and pay everyone in equal proportion to what they currently have. Eg. 100 in total liabilities, they have 25 currently, everyone gets 1/4 of their total balance. Seems like the most equitable way to do it.

In Johannesberg they have the same system, except there are specific hand signals to flag down a cab based on where you're going. Its incredibly Low-Tech, but it works incredibly well.