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Driving isn't easy. You can kill someone with a car if you don't know what you're doing. If anything, it should take more time and more classes/lessons to get a driver's license.

What stops banks from dropping those fees to compete with TransferWise? Are they serving a fundamentally different slice of the market?

They also do payroll and other services which probably bring in a decent amount of money.

I recently dealt with data that was missing any separator between the house number and street. Very hard to tell whether "8215thSt" is 821 5th St, 82 15th St or even 8 215th St.

Luckily, I didn't have to be the person solving that problem.

It's actually pretty good. Having worked with a number of nonprofits, around 10% going to fundraising is pretty normal. Things like fundraising galas are expensive.

That said, the bigger question isn't the amount they spend on fundraising but how much good they do with the money they raise. And the Red Cross has decidedly mixed reviews at that.

It might take some work but you'll definitely be able to get advertisers. The first step would be audience surveys to find out who your readers are and what they are interested in, and then you can go out and find advertisers who want to reach those folks.

However, if you're already doing books, what about Amazon affiliates or even, depending on the topic of these books, selling related products? If someone is interested in finance, business, or home improvement, for example, there's a lot of items they might buy beyond books. You can recommend them and make some money off each sale.

Very interested in this as well.

"Kosher" has never been a set of objective standards. Jews have been arguing about it for thousands of years. It's not a scientific law; it's rules set out by rabbis and basically every aspect of it has been contested at points.

If you're interested in learning more about this kind of kashrut system, there's a fascinating book about the topic: "Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food". [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Kosher-Private-Regulation-Industrial-...

Hey everyone, I'd love your feedback on the site, too: http://shakingnews.com/

It's very much a work-in-progress but would appreciate your guidance on how to improve it.

They legally aren't allowed to check but if a staffer or politician recognizes someone's name and remembers that they met at a fundraiser, it obviously influences them, at least subconsciously.

What about a new media organization focused on covering politics in a way that contributes to strengthening democracy? Is that something YC would be interested in?

I'm exploring this idea and trying to figure out how to make it work.

Arguably not the first time, if you count Nixon firing his Attorney General and then Deputy Attorney General because they wouldn't fire the Watergate prosecutor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre

Maybe not the best precedent.

Would you be arguing that if Hillary Clinton had won and ordered the FBI to stop communicating with the public?

Somehow I doubt it.

There's no rule that says that rich cities will continue to have bad schools. To take one counter example, there are plenty of well-off parents in NYC who send their kids to public schools because New York has built a number of public schools that are good (not enough, to be fair, but enough that there are plenty of families here). The same could happen in San Francisco.

I've tried to do that for relatively routine care and it's a headache and a half. I spent half a workday (because, of course, I could only do it during business hours--good thing I have a job with a flexible schedule) calling up doctors' offices and waiting while they figured out how much they charged for a new patient appointment. If ZocDoc reliably had that information, it would make shopping around easier (my insurance had a directory but most of the price info was wrong).

In the absence of that, it's just not so easy to shop around for medical care.

I've been using Battery Time Remaining for a while and it has some useful features that even the old indicator didn't have (for instance, which apps are draining the battery the most).

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/battery-time-remaining/id551...

Pita isn't necessarily baked; is it in some other category?

But iPhones aren't catching fire.

The DC Metro system (the subway) is designed so that it could be used as a bunker.

If they aren't living there, why don't they just rent a lot of the houses out? I guess they don't need the money but that has always struck me as weird.

Read the article: recipients (and people who formerly received assistance) are not happy. The opposite of what you write is true--they have to deal with more onerous requirements and aren't getting good jobs.

He's really wrong about the kosher example in a way that makes me wonder whether he really understands a lot of what he's talking about.

Anyone who is familiar with kashrut knows that only vegetarian foods (with a few exceptions) are reliably kosher, because it takes very little to make them kosher, just paying for an inspection and certification to say that there aren't any animal products. But if you want kosher meat, kosher cheese, kosher wine, or kosher cooked food, it's significantly more difficult to find that.

Why?

Because those impose real costs on the producers that force them to change their practices. If you want kosher meat, that excludes pork and animals have to be treated differently. If you want kosher cheese, it can't have rennet (an animal protein), which most cheese does. If you want kosher wine, it needs to be processed in a specific way. And if you want kosher cooked food, not only does the restaurant have to follow all of those rules but they also can't serve milk and meat together. Suddenly, it becomes a lot less common to find kosher food if you actually care about it and aren't just cherrypicking an example for a book.

If you want a real lesson from kosher food, it's that companies will adopt all sorts of certifications and make any number of promises as long as they don't have to significantly change what they're doing. But if you ask them to do something that would really cost them money, then they are much less likely.

I really hate the new look. Maybe I'll get used to it over time but right now it seems make a major step backwards.

Check out Overcast; much better podcast app than the default Apple one.

Trying WedWell right now and I'm interested in how they'll grow (as well as helping my fiancee and I). Makes things a lot easier.

This actually sounds pretty good. While most freelancers really shouldn't charge by the hour, this could be a good solution to a real problem.

And in general, where does the money come from? You're proposing to start your own private central bank.

In my experience, Twitter advertising just doesn't work so well. The specs are difficult to design around (and there's a lot of different requirements for different types of ads) and the performance just isn't as good as Facebook or Google ads.

The deadline for the environment might be much sooner.

Does Flux have a real business? Do they make any money? Just because they created something doesn't mean they have a company.