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Wikipedia mobile gets a new look (blog.wikimedia.org)
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by pitchups 14y ago
Elon Musk gives his version of the early history of Paypal's founding in this post: http://valleywag.com/230076/an-alternate-history-according-t... Which if accurate, does make him a co-founder.
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by pitchups 14y ago
> ... people were willing to pay for an a set of partially broken dishes if they were compared to an incomplete set than if they were sold alone... I think this is similar to what is described by Dan Ariely in his book, Predictably Ir
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by pitchups 14y ago
Another famous example would be the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940, widely believed to have been caused by forced resonance. However, as per Wikipedia, the real cause of the collpase was aeroelastic flutter. Video of bridge
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by pitchups 14y ago
> If your growth rate is already 7% with the pay-up-front model, that's better IMO than getting, say, an 8% growth rate with the pay-after model. That 1% difference per week makes a huge difference in a year. A startup growing at 7% a w
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by pitchups 14y ago
Also this TED talk by Johanna Blakley, shows how the lack of copyright and patent protection in the fashion industry actually works to benefit both innovation and sales: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...
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by pitchups 14y ago
How about a sitting judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and one of the most respected and cited voices in intellectual property law? Judge Posner [1] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/07/15/can-this-le...
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For iPhone 5, it may be cheaper to jump carriers than upgrade(news.cnet.com)
2 points by pitchups 14y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 14y ago
Great insights and lots of lessons for both investors and entrepreneurs. Especially the one about the best ideas looking like bad ideas initially. This should give pause to all aspiring entrepreneurs, and keep them moving towards their vi
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by pitchups 14y ago
So in other words, they needed $1 Billion dollars in order to have enough money to make money from the $1 Billion dollars?
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by pitchups 14y ago
Very impressive indeed. One of the coolest features of the site is the Cockpit view - a very creative use of Google Maps and graphics to give you a Flight Simulator like view from inside the cockpit of any of the thousands of aircraft in t
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by pitchups 14y ago
I agree. The need to share and talk differently with different people, is precisely the problem that Google tried to solve with their concept of circles in Google+. However, the fact that they also required real names and a single identity
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by pitchups 14y ago
I think this works for any link, not just the first link.
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by pitchups 14y ago
It has been known for a while that ants have algorithms - although the similarity to TCP is a new interpretation. From an article in Edge [1]: Ants have algorithms. If you think about an ant colony, it's a computing device; there's some w
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What all creative industries can learn from fashion's free culture of copying(youtube.com)
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by pitchups 14y ago
If it sounds like "pot", doesn't matter if he really said "pie"; chances are many kids are going to hear "pot" too unfortunately.
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by pitchups 14y ago
Do you have any sources for these performance comparisons? It would be great to see actual speed benchmarks for these different languages.
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by pitchups 14y ago
It appears that site ranks stocks based on some formuala using P/E, growth rates and other fundamentals. However, there is no information on the components of that formula or what criteria have been used for the ranking - making it less use
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by pitchups 14y ago
To be fair, you can always click the 'No Thanks' button or make it visible only to yourself, or to your friends, or even to very specific people.
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From The Network Computer to Cloud Computing - A Short History(arunshroff.com)
2 points by pitchups 14y ago|1 comments
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by pitchups 14y ago
Love the concept of "cognitive escape velocity" - a perfect example of a portable idea that spans psychology, physics and social media!
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by pitchups 14y ago
This phenomenon - of the difficulty of being able to teach something once it is obvious to you - has the rather unfortunate name - "the curse of knowledge", and it is well documented based on research in other fields too. There is a good di
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by pitchups 14y ago
Don't judg.me by my graphs :)
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by pitchups 14y ago
It is a question of semantics and word choice really - pretty sure that if they had said "Login with your Google Account" instead of "Upgrade to Google+", the reaction would not have been as negative. All that the Upgrade to Google+ does i
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by pitchups 15y ago
Going through all the comments, there are some great ideas. We are bulding a community website for entrepreneurs/startups and could probably use some of these ideas ourselves. Here are a few more: - Allow musicians to offer "live" concerts
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by pitchups 15y ago
I
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by pitchups 15y ago
I agree. It is good to be skeptical - as they say extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Experts are trained to be skeptical. I am not saying that video may not be a fake but I am also equally skeptical about all the expert o
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by pitchups 15y ago
They were not uploaded in a batch - the first of the 14 videos was uploaded on Aug 5, 2011 [1] So either a) he planned to make only 14 videos in advance - culminating in the flight video OR b) he went back and edited all of the titles. S
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by pitchups 15y ago
Since all the videos are numbered n of 14 - how did he know in advance that he would need exactly 14 videos for documenting his flight?
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by pitchups 15y ago
I totally agree - there is a total lack of responsiveness to any communication or contact by all of these internet giants once their "systems" determine that you are guilty. It is a one-way, dead-end street. Surely, all of them must realize

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