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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

I would guess that Uber is a good example.

We do pay people to go to school already, there are a multitude of retraining programs available for older workers. But as in this article I think the people in question are the reason for these programs not working, the one factory worker in this article didn't like school so he stopped going and went on disability. With that kind of attitude it's going to be hard to help people.

Every time these disruptions happen people said we had hit a tipping point and it was going to be different this time. Not sure how this time is different.

They are not necessarily related. Information symmetry just means that both parties know exactly the same information and neither knows more or less than the other. In a scenario where one or both parties have information that is not accessible to the other they can still engage in a trade in which each party, at least believes, it is better off given their information. A neutral/third-party observer may not come to the same conclusion but that is not relevant to this scenario.

You can get to SFO for less than $20 provided you're willing to use a shuttle/van service. The premium is for a private ride that is direct to the airport. So it's definitely possible to get these types of services cheap you just can't expect the same level of quality as Uber say.

Fyi, I believe this is actually a gay couple given the author's name is Peter and his partner is named Danny.

Not sure where you get this idea that one cannot live in San Francisco/Silicon Valley without a six figure salary. Thousands of people live in San Francisco and do not work in tech and surely make much less than six figures while still live relatively well.

Can you point to data corroborating your statement that universities are supplying a growing number of STEM graduates?

And the inadequate amount of housing availability is because of government regulation as well. If they would allow more building this would be less of an issue.

I believe you are referring to the case cited in the first section of this article: Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress, 293 F.3d 791 (5th Circuit, 2002). (https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/293/293.F3d.791.9)...

Depends on what you count as launch but BufferBox has been running at the University of Waterloo for a couple of years already.

Nice site! One minor issue is the main search box; for me it is completely empty and I have no idea what I'm supposed to type into the box.

I would counter that in fact the US Government is the biggest of the problems. All of those other actors fall under the law and are much more likely to be punished for their actions whereas the US Govt doesn't have to obey any laws and constantly finds ways around the existing protections, National Security Letters as just one example.

Are you writing this comment from 2008? Both LNKD and FB have robust revenue streams that are growing; they have figured out how to monetize their products and they are doing it quite well.

Except that it's not unsustainable and in fact doing pretty well in terms of revenue (http://adage.com/article/digital/twitter-ad-revenue-reach-13...). I know it's fashionable to hate on Twitter but it flies in the face of reality.

Yes, there is an export option for every account. [Speaking as a user and not representative of iDoneThis.]

Well then they are using the word `right` incorrectly.

Except you can't start a space company without a lot of your own money much like Musk did. You need the big capital first to launch a company that requires hundreds of millions in capital.

I think he's only counting engineers working on the back-end and not those who are working on the iPhone and Android apps.

I've had some experience with trying to make things that work on iOS/Android work on WP7 and it's nearly impossible. For starters mobile IE does not implement tap/touch handlers; which is a dealbreaker for mobile web apps.

It's nothing new (see: German laws regarding denial of the Holocaust).

Inflation rate doesn't properly reflect the change in the value of the US dollar. A better line would be one adjusted for the growth in money supply.

They aren't one of the biggest companies in tech. I believe they just barely passed 3,000 total employees recently. Compare that to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo who all have more than 10,000.

Nope, that's what you are supposed to do in a market system. You as a citizen are under no obligation to engage in business with corporations you feel are harming society/

Clickable: http://gitdash.com

One question I don't see answered is who are my collaborators? Is it everyone who is watching my repo or everyone who has committed to the repo?

Otherwise this looks like a really neat and useful service. UI looks quite nice

I am also Canadian and I would hardly say we have a great tradition of freedom of speech when we have laws prohibiting "hate" speech.

Fyi, I don't know any libertarians who wouldn't also agree that the problem lies with the unfettered ability of corporations to use money as a way of buying favourable governance.

Clickable: http://gtrot.com

Personally, I would just go to the results page and encourage the user to connect to facebook in a less obtrusive way. Also when clicking on an event it would be nice if you could pull in some more information through some API be it the specific event information or details about the artist playing.

And yet somehow obesity was hardly a problem for thousands of years in human history. People need to stop making excuses for their poor eating and exercising habits and take responsibility for their actions.