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kapauldo··on This Could Be the End of Facebook
The only way this ends Facebook if a class action lawsuit where all citizens are the class is filed, and the damages are loss of democratic election. I don't see it happening, facebook will be fine.
kapauldo··on Saving San Francisco goes deeper than “build more housing”
Is SF out of buildings to renovate? If I were to move to SF it would be to build housing. Seems like a sure bet.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: How can I get my co-founder to stop coding?
The problem may be you. He closed the first customer.
kapauldo··on If You Think Basic Income Is “Free Money” or Socialism, Think Again
It's free money by definition. It's a bad idea because it will serve as a sedative.
kapauldo··on Gaming Robinhood’s Free Stock Promotion – Or, How to Blow $350
What a great write up. Thanks for sharing this.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's next?
I agree with the other posters. College is a great option. I've never met a person who regretted education and now is a great time in your life to do it.
kapauldo··on Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects
How is Rackspace still in business?
kapauldo··on The Looming Decline of the Public Research University
The problem is 1/1000 patents makes substantial revenue for universities.
kapauldo··on The Looming Decline of the Public Research University
Universities have become country clubs. Those funding figures include absurd overhead rates that fund absurd compensation packages for professors and administrators. Tuition has also gotten absurd. This bubble has to burst before we can repair our public universities.
kapauldo··on Metrorail vs. Uber: Travel Time and Cost
This is great. I wish there was consensus that data was the basis for opinions.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Survey – Would You Use a Recruiter? Yes/No
To hire?
kapauldo··on What Hacker News readers want in a job
I'm turning 50 and most of the list is nonsense.
kapauldo··on I Keep Quiet About Being a Cancer Doctor
Except for this article, he keeps quiet.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?
No, they're skewed toward disgruntled ex employees.
kapauldo··on Bitcoin Is Now Bigger Than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
Anyone know what the ratio of payment transactions over speculation transactions is with Bitcoin? Is it knowable?
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Why do you keep coming back to Hacker News?
Skews young and inexperienced but smart and focused.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: If you were to create a new Joel Test, what would look like?
Who is joel?
kapauldo··on Ask HN: What are your views on India based development agencies?
Criticizing questions is not useful.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: What are your views on India based development agencies?
Low quality, mediocre delivery to spec, frustrating communication, but cheap.
kapauldo··on Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms
Is this web form to pdf or pre existing fillable pdf to json?
kapauldo··on Show HN: SimAirport – Our 'pivot' from web dev
This is an amazing technical achievement. I hope it's also a successful business. Congratulations on the algorithms.
kapauldo··on Google Thought I Was a Man
There are real problems in the world. This is not one of them.
kapauldo··on NYC offering to pay homeless a year’s worth of rent if they leave town
This is such a Republican solution. They think they're just lazy.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: What's an important problem that more people should work on?
Improving voter turnout. Enabling food ingredient dissemination. Job and educational opportunities for ex cons and poor disadvantaged people. Doing something modern with all those idle train tracks. 100x roi blood tests (the thing theranos lied about). There are dozens of big problems. Please share what your short list is and please tone down the saas put downs. A lot of good people have put a lot of their life into building honest businesses.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Would you consider running SQL Server on Linux?
I would not consider it today because today it's closed and expensive. I can't get support on stack overflow for example. In a few years I might consider it.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: What is the best way to spend my time as a 17-year-old who can code?
Pick a good college and study for your SATs.
kapauldo··on ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Scam Artist Has a Warning for Today’s Consumers
Cleaned https://read.feedly.com/html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2...
kapauldo··on Millennials may be history’s most competent parents
Social neediness and dads acting like co-moms does make them "the most competent parents" but if you publish it on the web it must be true.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: You have $1BN, how do you disrupt Facebook?
Pay influencers a few grand to join?
kapauldo··on Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind
Happy to see this. Free market health care has failed, glad there is a critical mass of people willing to get something new.
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