I found this a pretty interesting and useful way to look at this.
One additional factor I would love to see: situations where one person is coming on a "late" cofounder (e.g. a basic product has already been made, e.g. with outsourced Eastern European developers, and there is some minor traction).
I'm not sure whether or not your wife is working, but how do you manage your time with her and that relationship? Is it just shared time that you spend with your daughter in the evening (since you usually go back to work after your daughter goes to bed)?
>Second, condom-only regulation would also encourage a black market in adult film production. So movies featuring no-condom sex would not only still exist, but those actors and actresses would no longer be required to participate in the industry's HIV testing program, increasing the risk of an HIV outbreak in the industry and the population at large. One need only look at prostitution to see what happens when an industry operates underground.
Nice, but why not allow integration with common authentication devices available, such as SecurID? I don't want to end up with 5 or 6 of different authentication devices.
That (in addition to the fact that everyone lives in the suburbs) perhaps provides some of the explanation for why Atlanta rush hour traffic seems to be some of the worst in the country, despite having more lanes and a smaller population than cities that have better traffic.
To an extent I think you're right and some people will do it regardless. On the other hand, smoothly flowing traffic creates an incentive to not zoom ahead in the merge lane. There's less of a feeling of a need to cut ahead and people don't seem to do it as much when there isn't already a jam. (That is, the jam provides an incentive to cut in front of everyone)
And if people were to implement this strategy, the provided space gives an incentive for those zooming ahead to merge a little sooner rather than risk waiting half a minute for someone to let them in right at the exit. It's been my experience that most of the "cheaters" will merge a little sooner if there's space rather than zoom up right to the end. They'll still be passing you, which is IMO aggravating, but at least things will move a little sooner.
Interesting, my instinct has always been to try to "punish" the cheaters by preventing them from merging in, thinking that this would discourage this behavior. But I can't really stop this, and the article provides a good explanation for why you might as well just let people merge in front of you.
You can actually be sued for anything. Whether or not you can win is another matter, and it's difficult to recover legal costs for a frivolous lawsuit. The lawyer is probably just hoping for a settlement.
It would at least make sense to deal with plurals. I can't tell you the number of times I've searched for something using an s (or not) at the end, and failed to find what I was looking for, only to remember later that I should try to add or remove an s from my search term.
At what point does a casual conversation become illegal collusion?
Unfortunately, the law provides no clear definition, just as there's no clear point at which competitive behavior become "anti-competitive."
I'm not sure I'd agree with the statement that it's "VERY hard to make an anti-trust case stick" -- the antitrust laws are used a lot more than you hear about in the regular news (and the government doesn't have to be the one who brings them since you can be sued under the laws). For instance, in 2003 Nestle and Dreyer's Ice Cream were blocked from merging on antitrust grounds because the government defined the market they would gain a large share in as "The Market for Superpremium Ice Cream" (not the market for desserts or the market for ice cream). Many other deals aren't even attempted for fear of antitrust.
Not only that, but you can be found guilty of price fixing even if you didn't have a conversation about prices.
But if you're big enough for this to be a concern, you're already thinking about hiring Washington lobbyists to protect yourself and not reading Hacker News.
Here's something that seems to be left out of this discussion: there was an existing Google Voice application on the App Store called GV Mobile. At the time that Google's own app was either "rejected" or "held for further review", Apple also pulled GV Mobile from it's App Store. That at least, is rejection.
What if you have a "female" with high levels of androgens? Do you just say if you are 2 standard deviations within the mean of females you are verifiably female? Which is the cutoff?
I would easily spend 5 or 10 cents to read an interesting article, multiple times per day, especially a well written article from the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
The one thing that all of these GB comparisons never take into account is actual performance (which is admittedly harder to measure).
I've experimented with about 4 different dedicated virtual server type hosts (none of which was EC2), and found differences in page rendering time from 30ms to 180ms, due to things like how much load their servers were dealing with, speed of hard drives, and CPUs used.
Some tests I've seen elsewhere suggest that Mosso has better Write IO than Linode and EC2, while Linode has better read performance than Mosso and EC2.
I guess what I'm saying is that if you want to use a virtual server and performance (rather than just the ability to handle a large number of users) is important, you have to consider more than just the RAM and bandwidth.
An 8 digit, all numerals password? Really, Mitnick?
It's not super secure, but it really should be secure enough if a website cares about security -- they should be limiting login attempts, and shouldn't be storing them in plain text.
This is an interesting idea. The obvious question is how do you measure activity -- this is one of the things that often causes disagreements (e.g. different cofounders all thinking that they contributed the most).
I agree. Working at home also gives you the opportunity to use a full size keyboard, use multiple (or large) monitors, and more. And you save tons on the price of coffee (and can often have even better coffee once you learn how).
This works best if you can have a separate room as your office, however.
One additional factor I would love to see: situations where one person is coming on a "late" cofounder (e.g. a basic product has already been made, e.g. with outsourced Eastern European developers, and there is some minor traction).