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by jonmc12 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4xb1NXvE_w <- this link shows of the jetpack including a demo of a 'shark-attack' maneuver, as well as gratuitous girls in bikinis.
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Again, you seem to think the book is about this claim that TF has invented some new kind of workout routine. Its not. At a novice level there is a minimum amount of work that can be done to get the desired outcome. Further, an intermediate
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I think you are missing the point of the book (not surprising since you did not read it). The thesis of the 4-hour body is to understand as much of the science as meaningful, and then to do the absolute minimum in terms of diet and exercise
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I have a particular aversion to the 'social signaling and influence-via-association' you mention. However, I very much enjoy the substance of Tim Ferriss's content. Why? 1) TF accomplishes things first, and then publishes these accomplish
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OPENMESH Is Seeking Alternatives To Egypt-Style Internet Blackouts(techcrunch.com)
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LinkedIn Launches Tool to Visualize Your Business Network(mashable.com)
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Elad's articles are always insightful. I had a similar discussion recently with a friend of mine, and here is what we came up with from our point of view: Layers of valuation - Level 1: Talent, Level 2: IP, Level 3: Product, Level 4: Marke
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It seems to me that Google used the same kind of consumer-pandering rhetoric when they entered into Net Neutrality confrontation with the carriers. Google branded itself as a company that would lead initiatives to protect consumer access t
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Joose is a complete modern object system for JavaScript(joose.it)
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I love the new profile pic. Before startup pic: buttoned-up, stylish, academic. After startup pick: mad scientist.
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Huge list of self-tracking tools(quantifiedself.com)
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A Conversation About You, Social Currency and Social Capital(briansolis.com)
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Basically the Wave protocol modeled real-time communication in a way that Google Wave Bots & Gadgets could be deployed to add value to conversations among groups. Google Wave was intended to be a playground where humans and AI algorith
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Google has ALWAYS been an AI company. From the beginning, pagerank indexed information, made meaning out of this information, and could predict the most relevant url better than anything else in the market. Search was simply the first app
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I have a fitbit and an Android phone. Personally, I'm in the segment of this market that would like my workout activity tracked in the background. I'm not likely to change my routine based on an app, but if I had an app that could automat
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Some good points - it would be easy to counter, but what I would really like to see is an empirical study of successful ventures started by founders with a big company background. That would be a more meaningful way to understand how the e
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Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2(aws.amazon.com)
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Its amazing to see varieties of the same plant have such a broad range of effects on people's behavior and state of mind. This chart does not even consider the consumption method. Its cool to think that in places where consumers have both
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ReadWriteWeb's Comprehensive WikiLeaks Timeline(readwriteweb.com)
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On the surface, Groupon probably is not that bad of a deal for businesses compared to the cost of acquiring customers through local advertising. The problem is that businesses get a bunch of customers who buy once, and go away. That's not
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Python IDE with Django support : JetBrains PyCharm(jetbrains.com)
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Jsfiddle Web App: JS+HTML+CSS+Preview on 1-page - with JS frameworks, examples(jsfiddle.net)
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It seems like Matt is generally not a fan of online communities. In reality hacker news has not changed a whole lot in the last couple years and as far as I know is still one of the few sites with a large community and a strong bias toward
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Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports(washingtonpost.com)
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Invest in Lines, not Dots | Both Sides of the Table(bothsidesofthetable.com)
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There is a difference between hacking a machine (Kinect) and hacking a service (DirecTV).
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What kind of data and applications are best suited for monetization using data mining? Now? In 5 years?
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Razorfish's site background is a low-res, live, web-cam feed (razorfish.com)
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The majority of MS windows users don't use Linux either, and the fact that Linux did not run MS apps did not keep a community from pushing forward what an OS and app ecosystem can do. I'm not thinking 'OMG now I can convert users!', I'm say
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by jonmc12 16y ago
Lets say I can convince all of my friends to download and continually sync their FB data. Then, I build a desktop app or web service on top of an open, distributed network with a UI that encompasses most of the features that people use on

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