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To die from blood loss, you have to bleed out at least 40% of your total blood volume, which would be approximately 2 liters (normal blood volume is 4-5L). The paramedics reported very little blood at…

very cool

I agree -- it's the "anti-network effect". Twitter will finally be most useful at its limit of zero.

Twitter is a mullet. It's not just a fad, but a fad that will embarrass us later.

Mac was almost stolen outright from Xerox PARC Also incorrect. The Xerox Star was an expensive prototype used for research. Well, Adele Goldberg, head of the Star, and who held the meeting with Jo…

Woz says that because he's a sweet guy. There's no right or wrong answer here, but I can tell you I was there and no one cared what color the case was. The Apple II was a genius product for reason…

The Apple II had little in terms of "polish". Back then it was just about the technology, and the Apple II had it in spades. The Mac was more Jobs than Woz, but as I mentioned, the Mac was almost st…

The Apple II was a product of genius. After that it was imitating and copying, where the only added value was in marketing/colors/user experience. In music, people sometimes would ask "Lennon or McCa…

This deserves the down votes because it's a little more smirky than funny, but there's a valid point here. YC has has been called a cult before, and I don't think anyone would argue that there are som…

David Lean, the great film director, said you can only have one director on any film or you risk diluting the vision. I think the same is true for creative startups. I find that getting employees and…

Whew. It's good to know that if we were wrong in the past on some topic we'll always be wrong. Oil is not renewable. The crux of the argument for peak oil, as I understand it, is not that we'll run …

I don't like PHP as a language and so it's not surprising that he admits to a shoddy, poor effort. But I, too, dislike programming; languages are kludgey. (Ok, LISP and its derivatives aren't, but th…

I've created a relational database that can horizontally scale and now I'm putting it to use.

I don't know if I'm a good judge (most startups make me yawn), but I'm left cold. It looks like a list picked by someone at CNN.

I would speculate that when placebos appear to work, it is primarily because they don't do anything I like your argument but, amazingly, there's some research that seems to indicate that placebos af…

I <3 HN

From what you've described, she just needs Excel, but if it's more complex than it looks, Access is actually a fine alternative. I do think you're right, though, that there is a place for a competitor…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0oyaA1iNFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0oyaA1iNFs

I'm surprised at the vitriol here. This was clearly a joint project that got hijacked out of greed. I was looking forward to buying several Crunchpads, but it will be a cold day in hell before I ever…

Globally, there is a warming trend of about 0.8C since 1900, more than half of which has occurred since 1979.

I'd like to start a formal group to bring back the glaciers and arctic ice cap.

And a problem to a solution that does.

It's a political problem; the democratization of principles. Sometimes what everyone likes isn't what's best for everyone. It's interesting to note that Kent Beck, who brought Alexander to the attent…

Don't get smirky. I was exactly that guy. I was a CS major but minored in business and was the extroverted CEO of a software startup at 21. I used to think the fact that I often didn't like the "co…

Dijkstra said, "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." It's more than that though. Computer Science is no more about most programming languages than astro…

Looking for an advisor too.