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by ckinnan 17y ago
Zero Hedge is the blog to follow on this story and other capital markets/ computing issues. http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/ The writer is under a pseudonym but clearly knows his stuff and has connections. He is so well-respected that the
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Helpful submission, but this pricing tier has been available for years.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Cool story. I learned something else from the comments-- the Apollo missions left reflecting mirrors on the moon and we have been pinging them with lasers ever since. Good ammo to debunk the Apollo hoax nutters. http://science.nasa.gov/h
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by ckinnan 17y ago
me too. the ads and one hour time limits are increasingly annoying-- I'm going to the full subscription for $36 a year. totally totally worth it.
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Liars Poker, the account of his time on Wall Street in the 1980s, is a fantastic read.
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The popularity of these strategies has spawned a cottage industry called "co-location," or "proximity hosting." Exchanges sell the funds "rack space" in the data centers where their servers process trades to gain an extra couple of millise
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by ckinnan 17y ago
From the ministry press release: Cui Ran, an expert on the Chinese online industry, said the regulation aimed to "nip illegal online activities in the bud," as current trading volume was still too small to shake the nation's entire financi
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I remain stunned that our political system has produced literally trillions of dollars in bailouts for idiot bankers and failed automakers while we appear to be so close to a cure for a range of cancers-- a disease which strikes down people
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APC opcode caching absolutely turbo-charges PHP. Quadruple performance.
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Great piece. Two other interesting facts: Jefferson had the largest private library in America and its books eventually reformed the Library of Congress after the capital was burned by the British in 1812. Both Jefferson and John Adams die
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by ckinnan 17y ago
What about finding outside investors? Or partnering with a client? Your business idea may be impaired by your funding model...you didn't give yourself much of a runway. No matter what, don't cash out your savings just to stay alive throu
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The US is a dual system-- people are free to use whatever system they want, but business is encouraged to use metric, especially for trade. There was a big push in the 1970s to teach and adopt the metric system on a broad basis-- I remember
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Ten Helpful User Interface Design Patterns(smashingmagazine.com)
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From GM to Citibank to AIG to Fannie Mae, the failures and the fools are still in control, propped up by tax dollars from their clients in government, and they continue to consume and waste scarce capital and labor. Meanwhile, looming gove
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by ckinnan 17y ago
It seems like you should whitelabel this and try to sell it as a service to an existing womens or health care site. Also, for the US, this site may need to comply with HIPPA privacy and security standards. http://localtechwire.com/business
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Tesla has taken a $350 million loan from the U.S. government -- that's more than a million bucks from Uncle Sam for every car they have ever sold. The taxpayer gets absolutely no upside on the deal, except the hope that we get our money ba
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It is actually a lousy system: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/16/world/tokyo-where-streets-...
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You are right, but it is more complicated than that. About $13 trillion has disappeared/ been destroyed through mal-investment and the collapse of the credit bubble. Those dollars are GONE. The problem is that large parts of our economy
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His 2012 prediction may still come true-- in inflated dollars though!
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Wall Street is "fixing the mess" by robbing you blind. They are manipulating the political system to shift their losses into massive tax obligations on you and your children. Meanwhile Goldman Sachs-- a recipient of billions in TARP funds
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by ckinnan 17y ago
This is overdue, actually. U.S. consumer law already governs paid word-of-mouth marketing, as it is a form of advertising. (It is commercial speech and not fully protected by the First Amendment.) It is a reasonable standard to say that
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Blogger.com suffers major service disruption(calculatedriskblog.com)
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Help fix it: join EFF: http://www.eff.org/
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Older Americans to Lead the Coming Entrepreneurship Boom(american.com)
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The only reason Tesla is still in business is a massive $350 million U.S. government loan. Tesla is just as bankrupt as Chrysler and GM but has better PR and lobbyists. They are exhibit A in America's new crony capitalism-- US taxpayers gi
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Ironically, the Founders didn't expect a role for political parties and most were concerned with their rise. "There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government, and serve to keep
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GA is the keys to the kingdom for an online business...conversions, cash flow, ad sense, ad words...it is all there. You'll also need to offer a very clear and compelling value-add over Google Analytics for a serious person to even conside
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This seems like a reasonable concern. The situation is akin to publishing test questions and answers.
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Education Pays: 2008 Unemployment, Pay, and Education Level(bls.gov)
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California has some of the highest tax rates in the nation and is 48th in the nation in terms of business tax competitiveness. http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/bp58.pdf

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