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Isn't it amazing that Paul Graham hasn't updated his CSS in 20 years?

Paul - spend a few tokens to give me a text size I can read?

Thanks Eric - been a fan of your work for years! I remember Steve Blank bragging in his early courses that you evangelized his work to the masses. I applaud writing a book on the challenges of making a business that is net good for society. I've personally found that there are just so many forces pushing towards the status quo (make more $$), that it's really hard to create a company that prioritizes public good.

How much do you blame our values of our society for creating corrupt businesses? Are corrupt businesses just a mirror of our own values?

Thanks for the thorough analysis.

Wish articles like this were not written optimized for SEO. They’re much harder to read!

Does anyone know why apple acquired them just to shut it down?

It doesn’t seem like the weather data was unique - what was unique was its user focussed design.

To acquire it just to shut it down would have only made sense to me had they actually folded the design of dark sky into their weather app and put their founders in charge of the app. Doesn’t seem like that happened

God bless the internet!

Privacy.com is a great service. I use them all the time to generate 1 time use card numbers for sites & then cancel the card so they cannot mysteriously charge me. I've been with them for years & their CEO is a wonderful & smart person.

When you're allowing strangers to perform financial transactions - you're taking on risk that the money that is sent needs to actually be funded. They need to conform to KYC laws like all fintech providers - so yes, they will require knowing a little bit about you to operate in the United States like all financial institutions.

This lite.cnn site is awesome! Text without ads & trackers that bloat the cnn.com site.

I happen to have co-founded a company (Wrapbook) that makes it easy to work with gig-based workers as employees. The entertainment space long ago settled this fight and classifies everyone as employees, not as contractors, even when they work a single day.

This fight has nothing to do with independence and only has to do with employers trying to save some 15% of an employee's wage in taxes & keep themselves off the hook if people get injured on the job.

The savings are real - somebody making $1000 a day - classified as an employee, costs an additional estimated $150.

You can pay short term workers as employees pretty easily (we facilitate it).

This looks cool - wish this worked with Jekyll!

I've unfortunately become a payroll tax-witholding specialist.

You're required to withold taxes in the state that work is performed. If you're working from home, that's your work location.

You should get refunded for your CA taxes at the end of the year if they are being withheld.