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   by nike 16y ago

   Bertrand Piccard, who is leading this project, comes from a family of explorers (e.g. he was also the first to travel non-stop around the world in a hot-air balloon). He also gave a pretty interesting TED talk (starting with ballooning as a
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   by nike 17y ago

   A couple years ago, I saw it was possible to download and run Firefox in a corporate environment without admin rights (downloading and unzipping the zip archive, then just starting the exe without any installation). Not sure if this still w
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   by nike 17y ago

   Blacksocks had come up earlier on HN, with some interesting comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534330
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   by nike 18y ago

   I vaguely remember hearing a speech by the founder in Switzerland around 2002. If I remember right, he had a single employee and was making ~1M CHF annual revenue at the time. He was so confident of his product that he listed his competitor
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   by nike 18y ago

   Have you seen getabstract.com? They are pretty successful from what I've heard, but their model is different from yours.