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Microsoft announces Minecraft modding add-in for Visual Studio(venturebeat.com)
2 points by conover 11y ago|0 comments
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by conover 12y ago
Link to the recode.net live stream: http://recode.net/2015/03/27/live-the-pao-v-kleiner-perkins-...
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Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins(nytimes.com)
332 points by conover 12y ago|338 comments
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by conover 12y ago
Consumers are themselves the product as usual.
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by conover 12y ago
EA has a very large studio there that produces the FIFA video game franchise among other things.
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by conover 12y ago
Off Topic: For some reason on Chrome 40.0.2214.111 I can't click the play button on the YouTube video of your bulletboygame.com site. Edit: The cloud-right div covers the top three quarters of the video player.
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Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor(gizmodo.com)
170 points by conover 12y ago|154 comments
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by conover 12y ago
Berkshire Hathaway owned a significant stake of Salomon. A rogue trader at Salomon broke Treasury rules and the CEO didn't discipline him. The U.S. Government threatened to bar Salomon from buying U.S. Government bonds which would have
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Assassin’s Creed Meets the French Revolution, and the Left Rebels Again(nytimes.com)
1 points by conover 12y ago|0 comments
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by conover 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
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by conover 12y ago
"even legal surveillance"
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by conover 12y ago
Dear lord. It must take forever to get up to speed on a codebase like that.
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by conover 12y ago
So if you object to this type of surveillance then you prefer your children to be blown up by suicide bombers?
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Bitcoin’s Price Falls 12%, to Lowest Value Since May(dealbook.nytimes.com)
78 points by conover 12y ago|83 comments
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by conover 12y ago
Another day another huge data breach. It's starting to feel like the A+B+C=X formula from Fight Club. If the cost of rigorous security is greater than the cost of the backlash from a breach, we don't do it.
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Hack of Community Health Systems Affects 4.5M Patients(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by conover 12y ago|1 comments
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by conover 12y ago
Both are like black holes of real estate crazy orbiting each other...
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by conover 12y ago
Partially agreed. I found Vancouver very lovely (Stanley Park is quite nice) yet very expensive (cost of living) and relatively low paying. I would need a company there to "sponsor" my visa (as an American) but I don't want t
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by conover 12y ago
Is it a billion dollar business? Just because Google, reportedly, bought them for a a billion dollars doesn't mean the market is worth that much. Many people in the industry I've talked to seem to think there is a relatively long
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by conover 12y ago
Think of the children, seriously: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/asia/poor-sanitat...
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by conover 12y ago
I often wonder if people even read the articles. Yes this drug expensive upfront. Why is it expensive? Unknown. Does its development process justify its expense? Unknown. Is this drug a potential cure versus a lifetime of (more expensive) m
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz(movietrailers.apple.com)
5 points by conover 12y ago|1 comments
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by conover 12y ago
See the Porsche short squeeze involving Volkswagen some years back: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/business/worldbusiness/30i...
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Losing the War(leesandlin.com)
2 points by conover 12y ago|0 comments
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Google Buying Twitch.tv for $1 billion(dailytech.com)
1 points by conover 12y ago|0 comments
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by conover 12y ago
Maybe they meant it in the sense that we should be spending the same amount of resources on antibiotic resistance as terrorism. Or maybe it's just a ridiculous comparison.
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by conover 13y ago
Unknown-unknowns as it were.
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Mail Isolation Control and Tracking(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
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Pushbullet(play.google.com)
2 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
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by conover 13y ago
It occurs to me that judges, members of congress, law enforcement officials, etc. could be considered "sys admins" in a sense.

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