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by bd 18y ago
If I understand well, Techcrunch uses BOSS API only for custom search of their sites. I would expect only a small fraction of their visitors search directly from Techcrunch sites. The change would affect significantly somebody who uses API
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by bd 18y ago
There is no single analytics solution that would be fully satisfactory. The ones based on web bugs (e.g. Google Analytics) slow down your site and usually have clunky, slow and/or limited interfaces. Additionally, better ones are getting ex
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by bd 18y ago
Probably he meant he could get much higher financial aid at UC (thus illustrating that expensive private schools can be actually cheaper). For example: UC: $50K tuition - $40K aid => $10K total cost UIUC: $25K tuition - $0K aid
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by bd 18y ago
Indeed, in these times China had a monopoly for silk production [1]. It would be also interesting to know prices of spices, other luxury product driving international trade in ancient times [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_
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by bd 18y ago
Oops, I must have missed it while submitting. I deleted my post and posted it as a comment in the other thread. There is some additional information compared to the one in pg's post.
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by bd 18y ago
Here is another list, a bit different, with more goods and professions and with some additional commentary (though based on the same historical source): http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/edict/ There is some interesting information,
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by bd 18y ago
According to one comment in the original post, it was Lehman Brother's filing for bankruptcy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers
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by bd 18y ago
The flow is indeed very fast. We switched to Euro just about one month ago and already around 25% of my coins are foreign. Though not all flow is caused just by individuals. National central banks can transfer among themselves coins and not
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Massive electronic bank run in September 2008 could have collapsed the world economy(paul.kedrosky.com)
3 points by bd 18y ago|4 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Pixar is an incredible company. "If you don't create an atmosphere in which risk can be easily taken, in which weird ideas can be floated, then it's likely you're going to be producing work that will look derivative in the marketplace. [..
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by bd 18y ago
Did you see also corresponding "Intelligence Analyst" position description? http://www.raf.mod.uk/careers/jobs/intelligenceanalyst.cfm If I understand well, pay is just 16,675 GBP per year? That sounds crazy low. Even other related positi
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by bd 18y ago
It started already some time ago and it's doing it also on Windows, not just on Macs: Google Software Update sneaks its way onto computers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387759
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by bd 18y ago
Wow, that's rather harsh. You must had some really bad luck with Metafilter, or it must have had changed significantly since I frequented it more often. I remember Ask Metafilter as an excellent resource for questions on many topics with
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by bd 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
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by bd 18y ago
See also accompanying video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1xXTi1nFCo
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Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections(win.tue.nl)
5 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Because AI operates according to structures that have been designed by human hands. The human mind is incomprehensibly more complex than any AI. So you could make AI that does innovate, but its innovations would still be far more predictab
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by bd 18y ago
Here is a post by Linus: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/01/fantastic.html Billy Idol's "White Wedding" he mentions is indeed hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCWo1qdTdE
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Songs off the charts (turning data into music by Songsmith)(benfry.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Check also other videos from the Saqoosha (I presume it's the author, the one with a funny hat): http://vimeo.com/saqoosha/videos
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What Gives Gold that Mellow Glow?(fourmilab.ch)
4 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
The article is from 2007, drives were smaller. Around half of all computers in US had less than 50GB: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1557
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How Olympic finals were won and lost(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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Climate change enhances grassland productivity(ufz.de)
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by bd 18y ago
Ask HN: What do these startups need so much money for? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455687
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The Economy According To Mint(techcrunch.com)
59 points by bd 18y ago|14 comments
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Carbon nanotube ribbon made out of smoke particles could make space elevators possible(timesonline.co.uk)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
See also artist's site: http://www.gileswalker.org/gileswalker.org/ROBOTS/Pages/pole...
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DJ & Pole Dancing Robots by Giles Walker [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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Reflection on crisis: Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb at DLD conference [video](video.dld-conference.com)
18 points by bd 18y ago|3 comments

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