forgottenacc56

Everywhere else in government, IT systems are generally bad, or old, or underfunded, or outsourced to some foreign services company.

Making anything happen is slow, political, time consuming, expensive and has a reasonable chance of failing.

Why is it that anyone feels that government hacking, surveillance and spying would be anything better?

Fear the NSA? You've got to be joking. In five years they won't even know what systems they have, let alone how to retrieve meaningful information from the flood of data they never knew how to get on top of in the first place.

Why do we fear government spying? We should be laughing out loud at the idea that our government could do anything so clever in and organized and competent manner over the long run.

It's just hit me, I don't feel that anything really exciting and innovative has come from Apple for a long time.

Is this what the computer industry's leading company has become?

Is there a limit for some reason of the optical pictures that we could get of planets in other systems?

What's the best theoretical direct image picture possible of a planet in another system?

Say I'm developing some awesome new thing, but I've built it on my own.

I don't need money, but I wonder if it's in my interests to join YC anyway. Trouble is I'm not sure I see the benefits outside the money?

Can someone point me to the benefits of being in YC apart from the cash?