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How Tight Jeans Almost Ruined America's Money(washingtonpost.com)
22 points by kitcar 13y ago|16 comments
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There's a Wonder Drug That Prevents HIV Infection. Why Haven't You Heard of It?(newrepublic.com)
1 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
I'm guessing somewhere around Temuco based on the Llaima Volcano being in the background - absolutely beautiful area of the country (but then again, it's hard to find a part of Chile that isn't beautiful!)
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by kitcar 13y ago
According to this article only if you make money in the US, and therefore fall under the Canada-U.S. Tax Treaty ( http://www.icnl.org/research/journal/vol3iss3/ig_2.htm )
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by kitcar 13y ago
Reminds me 2 stories: 1) the Nazi's set up a "public friendly" concentration camp in the Czech Republic, Theresienstadt (1), which they took officials from the Red Cross to and used in media reports sent to the West which dem
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by kitcar 13y ago
Just some more background - DDB is part of the Omnicom group, which is one of the world's largest advertising agency holding companies. SpikeDDB is a collaboration between spike lee and DDB (and therefore Omnicom by extension). All tha
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by kitcar 13y ago
Most would likely fall into a "speculator" definition, as they don't actually use bitcoins for transactions - therefore they aren't really "adopting" bitcoin, but rather are just stock piling something in hopes
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The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995)(nytimes.com)
144 points by kitcar 13y ago|71 comments
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The Whitest Jobs in America(theatlantic.com)
77 points by kitcar 13y ago|92 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
I've had the same experience in major American cities - hotels being cheaper than AirBnB - but only when looking at full apartment rentals on AirBnB. You can (obviously) usually rent a couch cheaper than a hotel room, but that's n
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How to Launder Billions of Digital Dollars(theatlantic.com)
51 points by kitcar 13y ago|56 comments
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Hunting Afghanistans Moneymen(roadsandkingdoms.com)
2 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
For anyone wanting to hire students from Waterloo / looking for work in the area: https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers / https://uwaterloo.ca/hire/ http://waterlootechjobs.c
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by kitcar 13y ago
I think what you're suggesting is there are more people speculating on bitcoin's value than the value of some of these other examples - that is probably accurate, as in many ways the barriers to entry to start speculating on the v
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by kitcar 13y ago
This article really just tells the story that when there is a fixed supply of something, and demand increases, price increases of that thing. In some cases people have that thing stored in their attic and forget about it, in which case they
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by kitcar 13y ago
"any company can hire programmers overseas and just import the source code (git clone) and how is any govt supposed to tax that?" In South America many countries tax imported professional services (including the outsourcing of sou
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by kitcar 13y ago
Meta comment: If you check out the source of the page, you can see the <h1> and <title> tag read "Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine. But He didn’t Believe in It." - that's the original title I saw
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Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine(slate.com)
12 points by kitcar 13y ago|7 comments
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Lumigrids – the LED projector that keeps cyclists out of potholes(gizmag.com)
2 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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MIT-developed bike wheel will make your bike faster, smarter, and connected(venturebeat.com)
1 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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Deep Inside This Museum Lies the Holy Grail of Adventure Games(wired.com)
1 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
Agreed - targeting bot nets is a whole other ball game - one that likely can only be combated at the ad server / exchange / DSP level, as they are the only entities with large enough data sets to tease out which machines are infec
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by kitcar 13y ago
I believe you can repost a mirror link, such as a Coral cache link: http://www.replyall.me.nyud.net/the-replyall-cast/an-inside-... (Coral cache appears to be working as of 10:26 PM EST)
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by kitcar 13y ago
My last business was ad-supported (premium, big-brand advertisers). One day, out of the blue, one of the companies which sold ads on our behalf sent us a nasty letter accusing us of buying junk traffic / creating false impressions and
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I Have Seen the Future and It's a One-Handed Magnetic Zipper(gizmodo.com)
4 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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The Value of Constraints in Online Marketing and Design(newmediaist.com)
1 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
Some friends and I built RingReminder over a few nights / weekends as a side project - the core problem we were trying to solve was "how can we improve the reliability of our friends/family, so they do the things they are sup
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Show HN: Schedule phone call reminders from within your favorite calendar app -(ringreminder.com)
1 points by kitcar 13y ago|1 comments
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Cue shuts down (Previously known as Greplin, YC W10)(techcrunch.com)
1 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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Keynesian beauty contest(en.wikipedia.org)
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