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by gist 11y ago
Don't know about the Saudi princes however the Koch Brothers have given away millions of dollars (and I am sure there also give away money anonymously as well). http://www.kochfamilyfoundations.org/foundationsdhk.asp A
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"There's a big difference between 50% and 99%. There's a big difference between leaving your children a few hundred million and many billions." There is a saying "you can name the price if I can name the terms"
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"During our lives" doesn't specify a time frame such that it will happen in the next 5 years or 50 years. What he appears to be really saying is "our heirs will only inherit 1% of our Facebook shares". Until both Ch
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"The absurdity of our century-old, ad hoc approach to mobility is captured in one statistic: The utilization rate of automobiles in the U.S. is about 5%. " Except it's not all about mobility. People like cars for all sorts of
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Could Self-Driving Cars Spell the End of Ownership?(wsj.com)
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How to Be Polite(medium.com)
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"which is not shared by many" I agree with your opinion and am one of those that shares that thought as well. "If the quality of desk top software in the 80's and the 90's" Exactly. And it couldn't be as
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by gist 11y ago
It would seem to be a better option to try and drop a package by parachute rather than have to land the drone, release and takeoff. If the package is only 5 lbs. or less and has a parachute attached that seems much safer (for both the drone
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Zenefits Under Scrutiny for Flouting Insurance Laws(buzzfeed.com)
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That's interesting thanks for that. I wonder if someone could put together a product that would just sit on the network and do the same thing unattended 24x7 that didn't have to be installed as an extension.
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M-Pesa was on 60 minutes last night: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/future-of-money-kenya-m-pesa-60-... HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614816
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The Future of Money (M-Pesa)(cbsnews.com)
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by gist 11y ago
I never though of it that way. An interesting idea that I had was quite the opposite. Run a program that does totally random searches and web page requests (with appropriate headers) in order to create so much info as to render it useless t
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Well let's say you have a discussion with your doctor and they note there is a drug for your gastroparesis. They might mention some names or might not. You aren't ready so you basically don't ask for a script. Later a week a
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"I've never understood the logic behind prescription drug ads. The first rule of sales is to pitch the decision maker." Plenty of logic is there. Part of the purpose is to make the Doctor pay attention to the advertising that
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Thanks so much for your comment. I am quoting it and sending it to my wife because we have differing views on how much time the kids should spend playing computer games (me=almost none). I was raised in an environment (and at a time) when t
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by gist 11y ago
Exactly. Same reason you have locks on your doors even though they are easy to defeat. Tech types want to believe that the government is always overreaching and everything is a slippery slope to some other loss of freedom. Mixed in with a b