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Article is ridden with errors, mostly based on a faulty premise. Europe is not a country. Europe isn't even the EU.

Laws, regulations, attitudes and tax rates vary widely. If you want to do a startup in Europe, choose a country first and then read up.

The SSN is technically a NUID, not an UUID. So legal names are more important in international context (an Indian SSN doesn't mean anything in the US, for example).

But yeah, assigning GUIDs to everyone born in the world, like as "a93sz0sz" would allow uniqueness for thousands of years.

Regarding "have your contact details on your website, not an ugly, stupid and useless form that no one uses."

Is there any advantage to having a visible e-mail address your site vs a contact form?

Definitively agree that the OS is becoming a commodity, and there's a lot of exciting hardware coming out.

I think the software related value gains in non-tech industries are higher in the stack, on the application and integration levels. Amazon wouldn't be much if not for integration, for example.

Whether you're adding software to physical items or replacing physical supply chains with software, I think Andreessens point is that software is a high value activity.

While the Internet of Things is about connecting physical objects, the cool thing is that they're connected, and integrated, which requires software to handle the complexity.

Having a kid is like changing the difficulty level of life from "Normal" to "Hardcore". Unlike video games, there is no switching back.

So be sure you are committed and finished with playing on the "Normal" setting. You'll probably want to have high stats in Maturity, Communication and Patience. Oh, and your relationship is going to lose HP.

It seems you don't get security from cameras.

http://www.aclunc.org/issues/technology/blog/san_francisco_s...

Population-wise, San Francisco is also smaller than the city of Stockholm.

But it is a tiny tiny tiny startup ecosystem.

I'd like to have a credible source, or I'd be prone to believe he just made it up.

Yeah, a "why" is definitely lacking. They must have had either a monetization plan or an aggressive growth plan when they raised that money, and 5 months is a short time to prove either.

Could be internal struggles or personal reasons.

Doubt they need the $40k at all (and the movie should eat a big chunk of it) but I don't see anything in the Kickstarter guidelines they're doing against the rules.

No, I'm saying that will not solve the perceived problem.

I suggest more information, such as "Be aware that this software is licensed under a custom license. Click here to view the license."

I don't think the author of the article suggests that evil should be allowed, but that it is very hard to define evil, and that this clause makes the license non-free software.

Teensy 3.0 looks awesome. Do you know anything similar with a radio?

If you see it as a market, this is a typical market failure (externality and / or information assymmetry).

Since the author has chosen a non-standard license, I doubt government regulation would help (unless that regulation outlawed non-standard FLOSS licenses).

Probably would be better to reduce the information assymmetry. Maybe Github could have warning notifications for custom licenses, for example?

Right now we should focus on what can be created using existing technology (such as amazing battery-powered IP-capable wireless hardware and open source software).

Let the afterworld come up with a suitable acronym for a society-level overview.

Or almost like a once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity from a Nigerian bank clerk.

Whitelist the things you actually need and use. Probably: 1. Five sets of clothes 2. Laptop 3. Phone

Donate everything else to a good charity. Especially the valuable stuff. (Assuming you have good finances and don't really need the money)

It is indeed not the best title. Is it the best article?

Brevity facilitates content selection.

Agreed, though 802.15.4 (mesh) would probably be even better for an "army" of nanobots.

Is this a conspiracy of the color blind to level the playing field?

341000 visitors since January last year?

I may be old, but when the apocalypse comes, I know how to assemble a 286 from junk parts, edit AUTOEXEC.BAT and play games in stunning EGA graphics.

Meanwhile my kids will be digging into piles of radioactive junk looking for Lightning adapters.

You cannot remove the interface from a human-machine interaction. A doorknob is an interface too.

What you can strive for is interfaces that are so intuitive and easy to use that you don't need to fight them or rtfm.

Great UI designers know how to do this.

Startups don't have time to worry about who calls themselves startups, they're too busy shipping awesome products.

Or in the fine words of Shakespeare: "What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;"