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How to build an offshore military base(economist.com)
10 points by jwb119 17y ago|2 comments
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by jwb119 17y ago
for a scientist, he doesn't make a very scientific argument: >His experiment in cooperation with four other laboratories, he said, yielded “a very compelling body of data validated by many labs,” and has inspired the researchers to go o
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by jwb119 17y ago
tried to sign up twice and got a "change you wanted was rejected" message
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Medicine goes digital: the transformation of biology into an information science(economist.com)
2 points by jwb119 17y ago|0 comments
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by jwb119 17y ago
"The New New Thing" is not fiction, but it reads like it is.. Basically a bio snapshot of Jim Clark written by Michael Lewis (author of Liar's Poker, another good business book about Wall Street)
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Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant(sciam.com)
24 points by jwb119 18y ago|9 comments
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by jwb119 18y ago
If that's not relentlessly resourceful I don't know what is! Loved the part when he lost the track and had to figure out which way to go.
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Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs(blog.wired.com)
31 points by jwb119 18y ago|6 comments
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by jwb119 18y ago
Credit ratings are already crowdsourced by the stock market. This article is actually talking about crowdsourcing credit rating _models_, which is actually quite different and may be a good idea. I don't buy all the hype in the article thou
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by jwb119 18y ago
>Nature works through nurture, and nurture through nature, to shape our personalities, aptitudes, health and behaviour. The question should not be which is the dominant influence, but how they fit together. Interesting article
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by jwb119 18y ago
The market mechanism should step in before the courts (i.e. they would give you an appeal to stop from losing you to the competition). The problem in this case is that there are no significant competitors.
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by jwb119 18y ago
They are sliced, diced, and leveraged when they are resold to investors as MBS or CDOs, not when presented to the loan recipient
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by jwb119 18y ago
Did you guys read the article? I thought there were quite a few things hacker-ish about the subject and his views.
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Nobel Economist: Now Is No Time to Give Up on Markets(online.wsj.com)
22 points by jwb119 18y ago|25 comments
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by jwb119 18y ago
This is also a fairly egregious application of Signaling Theory.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
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by jwb119 18y ago
So, he basically assumes that Wall Street has settled into an absurd equilibrium point where any one firm would have a massive incentive to break with the pack, yet they all refuse to do so because not one person at Goldman/Morgan/Barclay's
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by jwb119 18y ago
Wonder who the nefarious "other organizations" are..
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by jwb119 18y ago
here is the link to the "IT doesn't matter" article that is mentioned. i hadn't read it before and found it quite interesting.. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/01/it_doesnt_matte.ph...
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The Facebook poll: A Little Case in Statistical Bias(weblog.markbao.com)
30 points by jwb119 18y ago|6 comments
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Open Source Hardware Hackers Start P2P Bank(blog.wired.com)
23 points by jwb119 18y ago|2 comments
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by jwb119 18y ago
Re: 1337 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
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by jwb119 18y ago
Great article. I think you should consider an alternative subscription model.. one time access. I am one of the demographic that initially used the site after either a HN or Cnet link (can't remember which one). I actually purchased a doma
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Poken: Tiny RFID thingies that share all your personal data with others (crunchgear.com)
5 points by jwb119 18y ago|1 comments
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by jwb119 18y ago
Also important to point out there are some risks that we don't want to start taking again (i.e. 35x leveraged banks)
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by jwb119 18y ago
I could be wrong, but making it to the front page of CNN doesn't necessarily qualify as "winning" in my book. There has to be a better metric for measuring the success of a job search.
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by jwb119 18y ago
I'm just as curious about Scoble's new relationship with Rackspace as I am about his new project.
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by jwb119 18y ago
You may already be aware of this, but the current buzzword for what you are talking about is "co-working". It is gaining quite a bit of traction here in nyc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking http://www.nwcny.com/
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The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist (wired.com)
108 points by jwb119 18y ago|33 comments
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by jwb119 18y ago
i'm curious as to how the black market on something like this would work. my knowledge is limited on the chips themselves, but they seem like something that would likely only be purchased by companies serving a high volume of traffic (ther
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by jwb119 18y ago
"The world’s greatest producer of entrepreneurs continues to be America." It will be interesting to watch how/if this changes over time, specifically in regard to the seemingly new attitude exhibited by the world community (i.e. the indian

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