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The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee(techcrunch.com)
106 points by antonius 13y ago|38 comments
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by antonius 13y ago
Avoid paywall: The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it will treat bitcoin and other virtual currencies like property, not currency, giving a potential boost to investors but imposing extensive record-keeping rules—and significant
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Malaysian Prime Minister: Missing plane crashed in Indian Ocean(marketwatch.com)
15 points by antonius 13y ago|4 comments
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Study: Humans Can Detect One Trillion Different Odors(popsci.com)
2 points by antonius 13y ago|0 comments
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by antonius 13y ago
People value unique skills, not cookie cutter graduates. I'm hoping to be able to work in Seattle next year at either Microsoft or Amazon and the main requirement they look at is whether the applicant has a degree in Computer Science
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by antonius 13y ago
How do you differentiate yourself from all of the other companies already in this space? You offer used clothing at a discounted price?
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by antonius 13y ago
Same thing I was thinking. Not too keen on providing all of my information without some sort of example(s).
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by antonius 13y ago
I guess karma will mean something after all. Any ideas as to when this this change will begin to roll-out? Edit: Re-read the post, launches tonight.
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by antonius 13y ago
Hard to specifically pinpoint, but clearly someone or a group of individuals that don't want to see GitHub succeed.
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by antonius 13y ago
In case paywall is blocking the text: TOKYO—Major bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announced Thursday it had discovered 200,000 missing bitcoins in a wallet that the company no longer uses, reducing the total number of bitcoins still missing to 6
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End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk(ft.com)
13 points by antonius 13y ago|23 comments
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Airbnb in talks to raise funding at a $10 billion valuation (online.wsj.com)
6 points by antonius 13y ago|2 comments
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by antonius 13y ago
One of the suggested solutions is for companies to raise wages. As far as I know, these companies already pay high five-figures for new, full-time employees.
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by antonius 13y ago
Hoping this is true and the plane's black box can be located as well.
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How The World's Largest Solar Power Tower Field Powers 140,000 Homes(popsci.com)
4 points by antonius 13y ago|1 comments
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by antonius 13y ago
This and news that a Qatari firm paid off one of the top FIFA officials for votes during bidding for the World Cup doesn't help Qatar's image going forward. [1] [1] http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014&#x2
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by antonius 13y ago
Like the Flappy Bird phenomenon.. it will slowly go away.
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by antonius 13y ago
If a start-up can figure out a way to provide the mass financial information that Bloomberg provides and charge even 1/10th of what Bloomberg charges ($20,000 per year), it would disrupt the monopoly that is Bloomberg.
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Genius, at age 2(popsci.com)
1 points by antonius 13y ago|0 comments
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by antonius 13y ago
Living in Canada and under CDIC rules, only $100,000 is covered. Thus, backing up my original post of not putting all your fiat eggs in your bank basket.
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by antonius 13y ago
Depends on how you handle your finances and carry risk. If you keep 100% of your short-term assets in a bank and it goes under, under Canadian banking rules (where I'm from), only $100,000 is covered by the government. Same goes with i
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by antonius 13y ago
..but that's not a reason to give them all your money. I'm curious as to how many people actually keep 90% or more of their total liquid short-term assets in a bank. It seems like a basic rule of diversification of never keepi
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Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy in U.S(online.wsj.com)
31 points by antonius 13y ago|25 comments
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by antonius 13y ago
Waiting for a class-action against Mark Karpeles any minute now.
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by antonius 13y ago
Pay no taxes for 10 years as a start-up in NY? Sign me up.
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by antonius 13y ago
" According to the SEC document, Twitter now owns 956 patents — up from just nine before it filed its IPO in November." Twitter's been busy buying up patents with its' IPO capital by the looks of it.
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by antonius 13y ago
It's like Minesweeper for ni^^ers Really?
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by antonius 13y ago
Looks neat. I'm also commenting here so I can remember to come back to this in a few weeks time!
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by antonius 13y ago
It has enough range to cover your home, DIY drive-in movie, a high school ball game, or even a bike parade (depending on the stragglers). Interesting idea... but wouldn't you need to increase the broadcast range for that to work effe
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The travels and trash talk of Myspace Tom(engadget.com)
2 points by antonius 13y ago|0 comments

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