Yep, I have an Aeron at work and an $80 (from Sam's Club) "Office Star Matrex Meshback" or something goofy name like that at home. I use both regularly and have no preference between the two. I would think a startup that needs the meager funding ycombinator deals in would be crazy to blow it on an Aeron.
Right now you can get 6% in the UK on a no-frills deposit account at Tesco (hmm, thought they were a supermarket) but that'll be taxed so it's more like 4% real. Which is barely keeping pace with (real, not official) inflation.
True, but banks lend to each other at LIBOR which has remained stubbornly high. Only a few weeks ago some were offering 8% 1-year deposit accounts to get any cash they could get their hands on.
Until this latest hiccup, my simple IRA was making 10-11% a year without me even thinking about it. Also with 5 mil, or 22 mil the types of investments available to you are not 'regular' or something you average hacker has access to.
The farmer is farms land stolen from Native Americans.
If we go by the odds it isn't some farmer taking out a small loan at Wells Fargo, most wheat is grown by big agribusiness.
The yield on the wheat is so high largely because of government funded fundamental research into agriculture and biology, including genetic modification, which has revolutionized things. Much of this publicly funded research is done by universities under grants from the NSF and such, and they are allowed turn around and sell the resulting patents to the agribusiness conglomerates. Not exactly a free-market miracle.
Wal-mart often demands public subsidies from small towns in order to put their store there, leveraging their massive outside scope and bargaining power with suppliers to be able to make their case to the municipalities.
He didn't ask to learn programming, he asked to learn CS. He isn't getting a PhD in discrete math, he is reading a discrete math book, which is a bare minimum for learning CS.
You are right and I stand corrected. I was somewhat puzzled that someone who has no technical background actually wanted to learn CS. That is unusual. Often people want to learn how to program and call it "CS", though CS has little to do with writing code. Thanks for correcting me.
