aaronchriscohen | 12 years ago | on: NYTimes's Pogue going to Yahoo
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aaronchriscohen | 12 years ago | on: Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash are an Effective Form of Aid to the Poor
I wonder if requiring applicants to "form a group with others in their village and submit a proposal showing how they planned to use the money" had anything to do with their success. It's not like they just dropped money out of a plane. And the fact that these grants were funded by a World Bank loan seems to undercut the headline even more.
aaronchriscohen | 12 years ago | on: The one HR benefit every startup should add
Dental coverage is a scam. I priced dental insurance for my startups for three years. The only plans available to companies with less than 50 employees have benefit caps that were less than the cost of the yearly premiums! You get "free" cleanings and x-rays but it still makes much, much, much more sense to take the cost of the premium and put it in a health savings account for your employee to spend on dental care (or any other qualified medical expense).
aaronchriscohen | 12 years ago | on: Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”
am I missing something or is this not just typical TOS boilerplate to give Google power to ban bandwidth hogs? Are there any Google Fiber customers who have been banned for setting up servers that did not also involve moving tremendous amounts of data?
aaronchriscohen | 12 years ago | on: The Ultimate Digital Estate Planning Guide
awesome!
aaronchriscohen | 12 years ago | on: Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)
the fisa court DID issue a warrant. it was just obscenely broad.
page 2
should read
"So I was intrigued when Yahoo showed me how zeroes can fit on a check.