It's not a YC startup and it's wildly successful.

Some places to start:

The Use of Knowledge in Society: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

Economics and Knowledge: http://www.econlib.org/library/NPDBooks/Thirlby/bcthLS3.html

Don't catch a falling knife.

I believe it's called "casualties".

Easy there, the UofF doesn't need Rick Scott's help to completely blunder something.

I left Gainesville in 2010 and that entire freaking town has one of the most ANTI-progress sentiments I've ever seen.

The one shining star on the horizon will be the construction of the University's 40 acre tech hub. Let's hope they don't flub that one.

40 acre? I thought it was just one building downtown.

"Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension."

(bursts into tears, runs out of room)

The state of memory leaks in firefox extensions is terrible even for trivial extensions... I can't imagine how bad it would be with something non trivial.

"SOPA...It's like handing machine guns to monkeys."

I've gotta try this out as an explanation of SOPA to non-techies.

I happened to have this on while opening the link and it fitted perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXrCq384hE

More fitting for the situation... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRRTOnXOZsM

16GB RAM Corsair from Newegg for $174.99 (until New Year's Day). Just sayin'.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233...

I think it's pretty obvious: Twice as much RAM from a different seller costs less than half as much money.