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Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble(nytimes.com)
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by montrose 9y ago
Maybe this means there is room for someone to start a new search engine for hackers. That would be very exciting news, because that's what Google was originally: the search engine hackers used.
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Big Bets on A.I. Open a New Frontier for Chip Startups, Too(nytimes.com)
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by montrose 9y ago
This is the biggest series A I've heard of. It may be the biggest ever. Admittedly, series A rounds are now de facto series B rounds, but even so, this is very big.
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Unicode, UTF8 and Character Sets: The Ultimate Guide (2012)(smashingmagazine.com)
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by montrose 9y ago
Mods, you have overdone the title-rewriting slightly. This was not the first full-color shot of earth, just the first from Apollo 17.
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You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else(nautil.us)
1 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Not this news site I bet...
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by montrose 9y ago
I have always thought Boston was the most likely choice. The thing most big tech cos want most is more good programmers, and by moving to Boston they can get at the supply upstream of most other big tech cos. Plus it's a nice place. (I
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by montrose 9y ago
You could agree with this title and still want to buy bitcoin, because even if it were true that bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global currency, the expected value of owning it could still be higher than the current price. If
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Investors Press Apple to Act on Children’s Use(nytimes.com)
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by montrose 9y ago
According to this list, Rockefeller and Carnegie were several times richer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...
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In Africa, Geneticists Are Hunting Poachers(nytimes.com)
1 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Learn to make rice and beans. The rice part is set and forget if you have a rice cooker or buy microwaveable rice. The beans part requires a little learning, but very little. You fry onions, then toss in a can of beans and a bouillon cube.
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A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts the Economic Future: The Yield Curve(nytimes.com)
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by montrose 9y ago
This description of the old days is actually a fairly accurate description of HN now.
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by montrose 9y ago
Though there are lots of conspicuous imports in e.g. product names, those are just on the surface. It's harder for "supposed to be" to replace "meant to be" than for "ATM" to replace "cash point.&quot
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by montrose 9y ago
An adblocker that's harder to detect.
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by montrose 9y ago
These guys' faces speak volumes.
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by montrose 9y ago
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/tenlesses.pdf
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by montrose 9y ago
I've programmed a lot in various dialects of Lisp, and I like car and cdr. Using names like first and rest might make a language more attractive to new users, but there is something to be said for designing at least some languages for
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Ask HN: Why do you use DuckDuckGo?
3 points by montrose 9y ago|3 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
I've found the most useful books are not business books per se, but biographies of and interviews with successful founders. I learned a lot of useful stuff from the interviews in Founders at Work for example.
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by montrose 9y ago
Our kids only watch Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube. A couple days ago, my 8 year old son asked me what Pepsi was. I consider that a good sign.
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Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition(shapeoperator.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments