Threads like this rarely get answered by people who have significant holdings. Usual replies are "wish I bought in early" or "man I sold too soon" or "lost my wallet when the hd crashed".
Ecuador. You will not regret it. My first choice would be north of Quito, in the Ibarra region. Second choice would be Cuenca and the surrounding area. In fact, there's a good chance we (wife and two kids) will be heading down there for a year in a few months.
I don't understand how they're paying $2000 a month to AT&T. We have 5 iPhones and 1 AT&T iPad on a family plan with unlimited text and very high number of minutes (can't remember exactly) and pay not more than $450.
I'm pretty sure their download numbers say otherwise. One or two HN threads complaining about MongoDB every month are not a good indicator for their future success.
I'm working on one of those ideas that nobody realizes are worth doing. All my friends say I lost it. It's also something I can build myself (although it's quite the undertaking, I've been at it for over a year full-time) and it's obviously something I would want to have. I hope to have it released in two or three months.
Thing is, I have zero doubt in my mind that once people have it - they will ask how they lived without it, or better yet, why didn't they think of it.
Or I'm wrong. Either way I love the journey. I wish I had a co-founder, but of all the people I have access to, no one has the vision to see what I see.
I love Fastmail and have been a paid user for many years now, but I hate the new AJAXy interface, in particular the infinite scroll as currently implemented. Slow, annoying, and makes it difficult to reach old emails.
It's funny to me how the HNers who question vaccines remain silent when these threads pop here. I know they're out there and I know they read them all the time, just are too scared to respond. Guess I am too, with this throwaway and all.
"Transparency Report" is such a bullshit term. It doesn't tell us anything. So what if they provide a neat table with rows filled with some random numbers. At the end of the day you are letting somebody else keep your files and do what they want with it.
I'm saying that people on HN are quick to judge parents who don't vaccinate as if it's about to bring armageddon. Meanwhile, they themselves contribute to more harm to themselves as well as their kids and other people's kids. I have many friends and acquaintances who criticize me on a regular basis for not vaccinating (I only admit to it or even bring up the topic when asked directly), yet see no problem in giving their 5-year-old kids soft drinks or smoking while strolling their baby, or giving their kids Tylenol at the first mention of them not feeling well, etc. In fact, it's taboo to even question their parenting style, yet they have no problems telling me I'm evil.
"There are many ways that breastfeeding and breast milk protect babies’ health. Flu can be very serious in young babies. Babies who are not breast fed get sick from infections like the flu more often and more severely than babies who are breast fed." - http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/infantfeeding.htm
Exactly right. The drunk drivers get punished, not the wine makers or convenience store seller.
But when a person becomes sick after buying raw milk - a SWAT team is sent to raid the local dairy that sold the milk.
However, the same is not done when a person becomes sick from eating contaminated meat that came from a factory farm. Why? Because there's no raw dairy lobby in Washington.
Pasteurization of dairy is of course necessary when the cows are raised in the terrible conditions that they are in most farms today and fed the soy and corn that makes them physically sick. When we used to get our raw milk it was from a local farm we could visit on weekends with our kids, and it was the product of healthy cows who did not have the need to be injected with hormones and antibiotics, who grazed on grass when not milked (by hand) and did not spend their time living on top of their own manure.
My point was that some people don't have a sense for proportions. I don't vaccinate my own kids. However, in the grand scheme of things, I think that most parents who vaccinate do more harm and put more people at risk, including their own, than my wife and I.
My kids are breast-fed. That means they have a stronger immune system and spread less disease. Kids who are fed formula contract more diseases and are therefore putting infants at risk of developing complications of flu, for example.
We don't drink. Alcohol-impaired drivers kill 30 people every day in the US. More than 10,000 people die every year because alcohol is legal.
I don't smoke. Cigarettes kill 450,000 smokers. As an added bonus, thanks to tobacco being legal and easily accessible, 50,000 people die just because of secondhand smoke exposure.
My wife doesn't smoke either. 2,000 babies die from SIDS in the US every year. Maternal smoking is the strongest risk factor leading to SIDS. Again, thank the tobacco companies.
My kids don't eat junk. They know not to touch soft drinks. Parents fill up their shopping carts with nasty candy and Coca Cola and so 17% of children and adolescents in the US are now obese. Oh, but wait, they vaccinated. Very responsible parents. Thousands of children die every year from obesity-related complications, including cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. But hey, at least they didn't have polio.
Measles is a concern because 50 kids had to be hospitalized last year for treatment? Big fucking deal. Really, big fucking deal. 150,000 and 300,000 annual cases of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children up to 18 months of age are attributable to secondhand smoke exposure. Between 7,500 and 15,000 result in hospitalization . Some of them die. Far more damage just from this societal fuckup of legalizing tobacco than any anti-vac parents will ever do.
I really respect and enjoy what folks on HackerNews have to say and this place is filled with very smart people. But when it comes to vaccines, personal health, pharmaceuticals and mega-corp-funded so-called science submissions here, I wonder what it is about tech folks that make them so brain washed.
I don't think the government can tell me not to drink raw dairy if I so choose. The only reason they raid raw dairies is because they don't want the masses realizing raw milk is safe to consume. Because if consumers start demanding it - the dirty and contaminated industrialized milk factories that get away with it by pasteurizing their milk will be out of business.
If the government really wanted to make sure you are healthy and alive - they would go after real threats. Alcohol, for example. Alcohol-impaired drivers kill 30 people every DAY. 200 kids die every year because a drunk driver killed them.
That's why I hate when people say "oh, get vaccinated to protect the babies who can god forbid contract your disease". What about my own kids who are at the hands of drunk drivers every day on the way back from school? Or when my next-door neighbor smokes outside when they're out playing? FDA and CDC go after raw milk to create the illusion that they're concerned about your health. In reality, it's a protection racket. You are much better off consuming raw dairy from a local farmer you trust and can visit in person than trusting some white liquid that's undergone numerous alterations and comes from sick cows.
We live in a crazy world where it is a federal crime to transport raw milk across state lines, yet cigarettes you can get at any corner shop kill 500,000 people every year, 50,000 of them from secondhand smoke. But yes, protect us all from the evil raw dairy.
Sorry, but I can never trust something made for human consumption by the guy who wrote this: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=572 (especially the Hormones, Antibiotics and Processed Food section).