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by schan 12y ago
Awesome tool. Thanks for sharing.
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China Beats Out Finland For Top Marks in Education(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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WikiLeaks reveals sites critical to US security(news.yahoo.com)
4 points by schan 16y ago|1 comments
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Google Opens Doors to E-Bookstore(nytimes.com)
2 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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by schan 16y ago
There is too much friction to build high speed rail in the US due to the democratic process. You have to get everybody along the way to agree which is pretty much impossible as you get to populated areas. In a place with a centralized gover
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by schan 16y ago
This reminds me that California has approved construction of a section of high speed rail too. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-high-speed-route-201... Hard to evaluate the cost/benefit of high speed rail since the costs are obviou
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In Online Privacy Plan, the Opt-Out Question Looms(nytimes.com)
7 points by schan 16y ago|4 comments
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by schan 16y ago
Free food is the best. It's actually a really strong incentive to get employees to stay at work longer, and who doesn't like free food? Now it is becoming more and more of a standard perk at startups which is a great thing!
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Mounting Debts by States Stoke Fears of Crisis(nytimes.com)
1 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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WikiLeaks uses Swiss Web address as options narrow(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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China's skyscraper boom buoys global industry(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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by schan 16y ago
There are plenty of startup founders that got their credit ruined before like Max Levchin. It got to the point where "a ruined credit history prevented him from buying a car, getting a cell phone, and renting an apartment." However, "Levchi
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by schan 16y ago
Samsung claims 7 hours battery life compared to 10 hours for the iPad, but it seems satisfactory in the reviews. Not sure if it will last one whole day without charging, especially if you used to watch movies on a road trip, for example. An
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Hedge Funds Like Apple; Institutional Investors Differ (institutionalinvestor.com)
1 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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by schan 16y ago
Don't know the numbers for mobile search, but after Google retreated Baidu has climbed from 60% to 80% market share of total search. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2010-10/23/content_114... Being in such a dominant position, they g
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Don’t Mention the Cables, Future Diplomats(thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
20 points by schan 16y ago|14 comments
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Subway acrobats flip underground in NYC(youtube.com)
1 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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China passenger train hits 300 mph, breaks record(news.yahoo.com)
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by schan 16y ago
It's actually manufactured in Mainland China(Not Taiwan), but it seems to be getting expensive there, so it is making more and more sense to move some production back to the US. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2429f498-82fd-11df-8b15-00144feabd.
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Ask HN: Anybody have the link to download Soluto
2 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is anybody attending Warren Buffett's shareholder meeting?
1 points by schan 16y ago|0 comments
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by schan 17y ago
Here are a couple that I've found, don't know if anybody has experience using them. http://thecoccinella.org/ http://www.miranda-im.org/ http://www.pidgin.im/
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Ask HN: Is there any good open source IM project (based on C++/Windows)
1 points by schan 17y ago|1 comments