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Thank you so much!! Interesting results and basically what I expected. I'll try the same except with a habanero, wonder how far it goes.

I'd be interested to see how someone would fare by chewing on some synsepalum dulcificum aka miracle fruit [1] followed by a Ghost pepper. In theory, it should be able to block out most of the TRPV1 heat receptors as well. If only I did my thesis on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum

Love the layout and design. Not sure if I missed this but is there a way to specify all of California in the search function instead of just individual cities? I think that would be useful for some people.

A proud member of that demographic.

That makes sense considering the nature of QA testing and data entry. For other roles, the outlook seems bleak. Entry-level jobs are a crucial first step on the path to a professional career and most companies are cutting those jobs out in the efforts of staying "lean". Quite a problem.

I'm very interested to see how Google will defend themselves in this suit and what numbers they'll show to prove otherwise.

If you can continue growth and profitability without taking outside investors, great for you and I recommend it. The reality is, a lot of times founders are faced with the problem of funding/paying bills and are left with no other option than to take VC money. If you go down that route, just make sure that everyone on-board has the interests of your users in mind.

An incredible pioneer that will be greatly missed.

This is great, I'm sure Watsi would love it.

Timeline views grew slower than users, suggesting people aren't using Twitter as much. Hate to say Twitter may be the next myspace.

Thank you! Very interesting read.

This passage hits pretty hard in terms of company culture. I think this is what Peter Thiel meant by "dont fuck up the culture" to Airbnb.

"Those were the years of Microsoft’s long, slow decline, which continues to this day. The number of things wrong with the company was extraordinary, but they can be summed up by the word bureaucracy. Early on at Microsoft—and even later, when we first started Messenger—you could just do things. You had a good idea, you ran it by your boss, you tried it, and if it worked, in it went. After a while, you had to run everything by a hundred people, and at some point the ball would get dropped—and you’d never hear back."

10/10 love the point of this letter. As evident by the comments here, culture can mean different things to everyone. More accurately, I would just say its the belief in the product and same passion that every one should have in a start up. Thats the "culture" IMO.

"In a democracy, if your government is going to gag someone from speaking, it should publicly explain why"

It seems like even the ACLU is saying "it's okay to censor people, just please tell us why". Im not sure what to even think of this.

I absolutely loved this.

Great product. Cant help but feel this will be extremely losable, if consumers are anything like me..

Quite frankly, that should be the first change the Dean should make. Thought the header was the article at first.

.......remind me again how the courts in Texas work?

"In 2004 a court in Texas ordered a former Alcatel employee to give his former employer a software algorithm — which existed entirely in his mind. The idea, which he was still working on and was still too abstract and incomplete to be a patentable invention, was nevertheless deemed the property of Alcatel, forcing the ex-employee to turn over the algorithm in the months after he was fired."

Trying to sympathize with the guy, but signing a confession?....just doesn't make sense

Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564353