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“I have to say that the guy raised a huge red flag for me already in the first paragraph: ‘I hit the gym, pursued the most interesting and important ideas I could find, and started looking for a wife.’ “

A healthy body, a healthy mind, and a healthy relationship are not red flags.

The guys at Palladium talk about religion as a social technology. People stuck in the “new atheism” phase will find this hard to follow.

Whether a belief is false or true is often completely irrelevant. Even if the Gods are "imaginary", their impact is most definitely real.

I'm an early user of your service, and I love it.

The only problem I have is it's too cheap!

I paid almost nothing for it years ago ($12?)

I'm worried about relying to heavily on a service that might go out of business any day.

Can you convert to a SaaS and let happy users like me support you.

Isn’t that just another way of saying the ITER approach is infeasible? So it’s basically a jobs program

What about all the vending machines that take credit cards?

This is just going to start a flame war.

I was never about security. They use FOMO to create a daily habit. When you post, people see it and react quickly, which further strengthens the addiction.

Construction jobs are already very high paying jobs in New Zealand and Australia, maybe even more than software.

You should have a mailing list. I would like to be notified when my target language becomes available.

Uber is finally bowing to irrational pressure from drivers, the media, and the paper belt. The customer is now just another 'stakeholder'.

Goodbye Travis, you fought a good fight.

What makes you say that? What are some of the potential benefits?

That's basically how you get mice embryos at the moment. There are several companies that provide this service.

That's a situation we already face. There's a line of humans who can only reproduce with IVF.

Having just had our first child, I see a lot of room for improvement.

Identical outcomes is a low bar, in the long-term. So then the question becomes, is the short-term pain worth a much safer future.

One of the interesting things about humans is we're all born preterm, because of our large heads and narrow hips. So you can potentially extended gestation by another term.

I use truecaller. It works well me, but robocalls have never been a major problem for me fohttps://www.truecaller.com/

There was, it was bought by Yahoo... http://summly.com

I 100% agree, but there are reasonable arguments against too. Unfortunately in this case the house was sold on after the couples death. Guests, like new owners, also have a right to be save from structural issues.

You're assuming the existing customers are price sensitive.

Even when the price of a physical button is $0?

Even for Amazon it's cheap, and quickly pays for itself.

The line between physical and digital is blurring more every day.

Very interesting. I'll be buying a few, for my nephews and nieces. Thanks for posting.

Netflix and Spotify don't do business in India...

Talking about CC is a distraction, because the meaning varies in different countries. (debit, credit, post-office, chequing, etc)

The majority of SaaS startups rely on friction free recurring payments. An even larger number of companies have a subscription model; e.g. Spotify, Team Treehouse, Soylent, Birchbox, Makespace and Netfix. Then you have all the 'One Click Purchase' companies like Uber...

The list of companies you can screw over with unnecessary regulation is extraordinarily large.

You're happy to have no SaaS startups? Do you think there might be an alternative solution, that doesn't through the baby out with the bath water?

wow

This is more like AirBnB than Reddit.

Ignore them. You can't serve everyone.

So that's the reason I have to have a US iTunes account to download software.

"aren't legal in Australia and yet the app is still available to download here" Why wouldn't this affect web apps?

I would rather install an app, to see what permissions it needs, before assuming it needs anything. If an app does nothing without me logging in or giving them my contacts, then it probably does nothing.

There are many good reasons to be a late adopter, safety is one. I don't think they should optimize their landing page for late adopters.

Judging from the site I thought Plague would be a new take on Reddit. Where Reddit asks if you like or dislike a Meme (we need a new word). Plague asks if you want to slow down or speed up its spread. This difference should mean different content is surfaced.

“I am unclear on pretty much every aspect of this”

“don't know if I'm going to need to sign up”

“benefit to me seems dubious”

“what this things actually do?”

“This page is totally devoid of content”

“If it wasn't for the comments… I would have closed it and forgot about it forever”

“Tell me what your product is. What it does, where it works, how it does it, what it requires. Is it a physical product (or is it shipped in one), an interactive application, a Web service, a programming language / tool? As a reader notes, don't make me use Wikipedia to figure out WTF your company does”

1) Lower your bar for trying new things

2) Don’t be so cynical and quick to judge.

“The best way to find out what it does is to download the app.”

I've been using Uber for a while now, at home and on holiday. I still haven't tried Lyft. The main reason being it's not available outside the US, and I'm one of the few people out here in the world.

Last month I was in San Francisco and I STILL couldn't use Lyft, because you need a US phone number to sign up.

From day one Uber has been thinking on a different scale.

If you live in a country with no addresses, you don't need to be told "Why".

From their blog

"So what’s wrong with the physical address system in Kenya? It’s not that it doesn’t work, it’s that it fundamentally doesn’t exist. The majority of homes do not have a name or number, rarely have a street name and definitely no national level post or zip code. This leads to major social and economic issues that are throttling growth in Kenya.

Imagine an ambulance driver who can’t find their casualty, a pizza delivery man who can’t find his customer or a bank that does not know where their customers live. This happens thousands of times a day in Kenya and almost every other emerging market in the world. It’s a big problem that has to be fixed and we believe we’re the ones to do that."