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adam1davison How to Cover the One Percent

There's a kernel of truth here, but you have to be careful about comparing _numbers_ of white/black people killed/jailed. You need to look at the per-capita (percentage) killed or jailed. There are way more "white" people so of course there are more of them killed/jailed/whatever! But when you look at the percentage then you see the injustice. "The country is about 63 percent white and 12 percent black... death rate due to legal intervention was more than three times higher for blacks than for whites in the period from 1988 to 1997."

Source: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/21/...

adam1davison Ask HN: At what point did you just start working on a prototype?

Don't do it - unless you can find customers first. Read: http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...

adam1davison Calendar Apps Suck, but they don't have to

due to high traffic, the site went down briefly. it's back up

adam1davison Future Searching

In my mind it would be a combination of recruiter, product manager, and maybe architect

adam1davison Future Searching

This reminds me of "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge: A "coordinator" is someone who combines the efforts of multiple people and this is where the "biggest and most famous money" will be (has been?) found. See page 50-51, http://books.google.com/books?id=WT-OXLZE2m8C&q=combine#...