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New York's Newest Skyscraper Is 32 Floors of Prefab Apartments(fastcoexist.com)
65 points by nols 12y ago|26 comments
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by nols 12y ago
It could be done at sea, but it would add too much time and time is extremely valuable with ships this expensive. These ships make money transporting goods, if they aren't moving containers they're losing money.
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The world's biggest ship – for 53 days(bbc.com)
40 points by nols 12y ago|26 comments
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The Biology Teacher with a DIY Tattoo Kit Business(priceonomics.com)
4 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments
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by nols 12y ago
I don't think that's really stopped many people. It's not that difficult to lie about your age.
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The cardboard box that democratized photography(bbc.com)
41 points by nols 12y ago|7 comments
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Can Houseplants Really Clean the World's Smoggiest City?(news.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments
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Machine assistants learn to run your schedule(newscientist.com)
1 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments
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by nols 12y ago
"We're aware of the issue with our site and are working on it. :)" https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/544587442305523712
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by nols 12y ago
You don't. I'm pretty sure they're talking to everyone on HN who's going to come to the comments and then click on the site to check it out.
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by nols 12y ago
The site's still up, just has a different URL. https://thepiratebay.cr/
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by nols 12y ago
They didn't shut down if they were making a few million a year. They probably didn't scale nearly as well as they thought and never broke into a profit/subscriber number.
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by nols 12y ago
You shouldn't be surprised, it does exist. http://www.subbly.co/
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by nols 12y ago
I think every major city has the wealthy suburbs nearby like that, industries grow and the wealthy owners leave the cities for more space. Bloomfield Hills is ~20 miles away from Detroit. LA's rich and poor cities are much closer tha
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by nols 12y ago
Advertising currently provides most of the revenue for many Internet sites. Until another major revenue source comes along a significant effort will still be put towards optimizing advertising.
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The True Story of the Kids Who Beat MIT’s Best Robots, Coming Soon to Theaters(wired.com)
3 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments
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The World Now Has Its First E-Resident(theatlantic.com)
1 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments
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by nols 12y ago
Finance is another factor, both the trade (with the two largest stock exchanges based in the US) and having historical wealth and wealthy immigrants investing in the US.
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by nols 12y ago
They can't afford to sleep under a roof and you wonder why they can't move?
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by nols 12y ago
I think everyone knew that Youtube would have to add ads eventually to monetize. Cable was originally an ad-free subscription.
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by nols 12y ago
A peppercorn is a tiny payment to provide consideration between the two parties. In common law both sides of the contract need to benefit somehow, so you can't have one party work or sell something for free. A peppercorn is a dollar
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Top Trying to Save the World: Big ideas are destroying international development(newrepublic.com)
3 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments
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by nols 12y ago
Clothing has higher than average return rates because people can't anticipate sizing or look. I worked for a food ecommerce site and our return rate was low single digits.
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by nols 12y ago
You certainly can if you knowingly target the drug market and make a commission off each sale.
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by nols 12y ago
How would bitcoin be better than the mobile phone banking that is already quite popular in many developing countries?
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by nols 12y ago
I really think that it's not even a smokescreen as much as it's really what they think. "Why should I assume any risk when I'm just a reseller?" is a common thought among many new companies. They don't really
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by nols 12y ago
I don't think it translates any content, it just internationalizes the code so you can utilize separate translations (and numbering format, etc).
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Inside a Russian malware scheme that hijacked 500,000 computers(theverge.com)
1 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments
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by nols 12y ago
Cranes, ports in the Americas don't have cranes with the reach to unload the wide ship. Some EU and Asian cranes had to be replaced and their teams retrained, but US port technology lags significantly behind Europe's and Asia&#x2
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Taboola: The Internet firm at the forefront of 'click-bait'(bbc.com)
8 points by nols 12y ago|0 comments

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