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Programming jobs are not much to brag about. Many IT people don't just check out after 5pm. They are on-call after work, stay up late at night trying to finish X or fix Y. They are expected to show up to the office on the weekends to do Z. In the meantime, the HR people are relaxing at home with their families.

As long as programming jobs are worse than regular jobs, people will require higher compensation to take those jobs. More stress, more requirements = higher compensation.

Theory: This is the only way his regurgitated attempt at a speech would get any attention.

You can post your cat and dinner pics on G+.

It's not the end of the world if they ban you.

Aside from people using it to sell things/their business, most people will not lose much of anything. In fact, they will probably gain, since they won't be spending XXX minutes on FB each month.

So what did he buy that he couldn't get free using Google search? Nothing?

There are phone books out there that list more information that that. Do you feel secure?

I judge people based on their past actions. Not on their hypothetical potential. Kim has a history of fraud and questionable activities going back _decades_. If that makes my way of thinking frightening to you, so be it.

I remember the first time I learned of Kim - 10+ years ago.

From the early days, his questionable 'projects', his legal troubles back home, his money making schemes, him defrauding people on BMW M5 forums, etc. Then I didn't hear about him for 10 years.

When his name came out during the Megaupload uproar, I immediately remembered his name and his antics and without knowing anything about Megaupload I knew he was guilty as sin just based on his record.

Is there any effect on taxes?

Yes, the shell company makes $0 thanks to phantom expenses, but the main company gets all that money and that is profit.

So the shell has 0 tax liability and the main company faces all the tax liability.

It may screw the crew, but it doesn't matter for tax reasons. Correct?

The bigger the government influence/regulation/power/money the higher the stakes and more well funded stakeholders trying to influence it.

Anyone worth their salt could've Googled their leaderships history of creating big IPOs that end up crushing and burning. Most were complicit in it, or just rationalized it to themselves that it was different.

Second, the people who make the company - the early people - are on better terms. The guy who got hired the month before IPO shouldn't be expecting much.

I thought it was standard to use a cash back credit card for this sort of thing.

If you had the images on your site, would you expect this to raise your Google Page Rank?

The answer is because most non-technical co-founders don't bring much to the table. Many don't have startup experience, management experience, fundraising/angel/VC connections.

If you want to tech co-founders to work with you, you need to demonstrate something.

You're extrapolating results from 3 months into years? Uh... yeah...

It doesn't sound that easy or stable if you are willing to sell it for 6 months profit instead of using your 5 minutes each year to run it forever and making $900/year.

Instprofit when you sell to ZNGA. OMG so easy.

It's just simple business rules.

Is it really that hard for you to tell a fake FB/twitter account from a real one that you couldn't code the logic?

You don't even have to code it. You just need to link it. If someone is reading the review, they can go back to the person that wrote it and judge for themselves.

Heaven forbid someone learns your highly secretive height, weight, eye color and DL license number which is completely meaningless.

They communication does appear to suck, but your paranoia is unfounded.

For many startups, #1 tactic is to spam the hell out of the social network of your existing users.

The links is laughably bad. It's just a bunch of advertising disguised as an informative post.

This is both true and false. While corruption is rampant and often expected, the environment can be easier particularly for lower capital businesses.

If you want to open a restaurant here in DC, it will take you quite a long time to get all the permits, permissions and inspections done. If you have to remedy anything, it probably won't be cheap. Once you have all the permits, you have to apply for special exemptions to stay open later, to serve alcohol, etc.

When a Latino immigrant woman tried to sell her food on some neighborhood street in DC, she didn't even last a day. She tried (at least) twice, and she was promptly ticketed and got in some trouble for selling simple treats on the street.

In contrast, in the developing countries the business comes first. You worry about making money. If it's actually working, then you can start worrying about bribes and taxes and regulations. So it can be cheaper and quicker to startup as many of these expenses are on the back end instead of being front loaded.

The Romanian quote is right on.

It's not the government and it's not the business environment. The problem is with the people.

Look at some of the "worst" African countries. Chinese and Indians are coming in there and opening up shops. They are starting restaurants and barber shops and all kinds of low startup cost businesses. They are doing well, and they are putting the old school 'local' businesses out of business. In fact, in some African countries they are considering making residency much more difficult for the Chinese because they are so successful there.

Too many people in African and Latin American countries have a sense of entitlement. When they think a community needs something, they think the government should provide it or subsidize it.

It is hard to shift this mindset, but it is happening in some urban pockets. There are small circles of entrepreneurship in most bigger African/LA cities. (I'm talking about guys starting from ground up, not rich privileged people starting more capital intensive enterprises.) But it's going to take a while.

Ironically, the biggest sense of entrepreneurial spirit I was was actually in Zimbabwe. As bad is it is there right now, I have a feeling this will be a big positive turnaround sooner or later.

That is amazing.

That said, after the first game it was very laggy.

My initial feeling is that the most crud left behind is from professional fakers, aka menial labor from India/Phils/etc. That's where one can buy fake reviews en masse.

That explains point 1, 2, 3, 5 and possibly even point 4. (working time difference, and cheap equipment.)

The key to detecting fake accounts is tractability. That's why FB logins are gold. You can look at the account and - most of the time - it is easy to tell if it's real or fake.

The problem is that many sites want volume, not quality. They just let anyone "add content". This is a an easily solvable problem that most sites do not actually care to solve.

And /. still has better comment setup than anything out there today that supposedly 'surpassed' it.

That's why Obama win is so important to Tesla Government Motors.

I've always wanted to have story accepted on /.

But I've yet to submit one. :)

Interesting. I'm particularly interested in how you got this matched up against voter lists. Some states are quite a PIA to collect.

This is going to be huge.

No more waiting 4 weeks to get a computer/laptop I actually want.

All of these online communities face the same problem:

As they get bigger, the quality of the membership becomes severely diluted. Eventually, the crud fills the pages, the 'good' members leave, and all that remains is the crud.

This is happening on Quora too. Look at up-voted answers on non-tech questions. All it takes is a bunch of nicely formatted paragraphs, lists, bolded text, and a bunch of nice pictures. Tons of posters are commenting on places they have never visited and things they know nothing about.

If this is the best that the top 24 pics from universities can do, I most certainly wouldn't call this a good criticism of traditional education.