teralaser

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6dgr of mobilisation - social networking for real-world problems(economist.com)
1 points by teralaser 14y ago|0 comments
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by teralaser 15y ago
Ok most of the later ones are the usual suspects :-) ... and not so much "hardly existed last year".
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15 Startups With $100 Million+ Valuations That Hardly Existed Last Year(businessinsider.com)
2 points by teralaser 15y ago|1 comments
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by teralaser 15y ago
My first thought was of Steve Case (AOL CEO), who said something similar in 1998-2000. (1) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/... (couldnt find an exact quote though)
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by teralaser 15y ago
The bitcoin miner's experiences can also be found in the world of gold mining: http://www.economist.com/node/18774624
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by teralaser 15y ago
Hm, does Moonlight (linux port of Microsoft's Silverlight - their "flash/javafx/..." answer) also count as a Microsoft product for Linux? http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
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by teralaser 15y ago
Despite MtGox not being online, bitcoin trading has never been shutdown: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ Trading volume has been down a bit, especially just after MtGox closed, but it has not been illiquid.
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by teralaser 15y ago
It is probably not of the greatest interest to hn users, but banks, afaik , report - but not to the public, where I live (except for creditcard leaks). Wouldn't a major leak potentially create a bank run?
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Business must report data breaches to public, EU says(zdnet.co.uk)
8 points by teralaser 15y ago|5 comments
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Independent author John Locke joins Amazon's million-Kindle-seller club(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
27 points by teralaser 15y ago|16 comments
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Which tech giants will still be around after 100 years?(economist.com)
75 points by teralaser 15y ago|66 comments
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by teralaser 16y ago
For those with some knowledge of electricity, what Tesla meant is nicely illustrated in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
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by teralaser 16y ago
As long as Denmark has a growing "Danish People's Party" (3rd largest at 13.8%) in a government supporting role, with the one-trick pony voter's appeal of immigration (thus they have to tighten and tighten it), I have 3 advices for anyone c
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by teralaser 16y ago
Really, the highest earning "occupations" (or most prestigious) change as time goes: - in the 1800s many smart people became authors or poets. - in the 1950 many became physicists - around 2000, many became entrepreneurs (or even venture ca
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by teralaser 16y ago
Here is another reason to write your passwords down: At my workplace there was a programmer. One day he had a heart attack, and was put into a 3 week artifiscal coma. When he woke again, he could not remember any passwords. Everything was a
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by teralaser 16y ago
LA Times, 2010: "Shut up and be scanned". LA Times, 1942 "shut up and go to your internment camp" http://www.theagitator.com/2010/11/22/shut-up-and-be-scanned...
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by teralaser 16y ago
I am not sure I agree so much with the presentation, but the mocking of the "Stanford alumnus experienced exec" is worth it for the smile.
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Successful entrepreneurship 1(slideshare.net)
8 points by teralaser 16y ago|8 comments
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Emerging market entrepreneurs / investor matching(bidnetwork.org)
6 points by teralaser 17y ago|0 comments
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by teralaser 17y ago
I edited Zed Shaw out of the title.
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by teralaser 17y ago
The program was first born has "Playlist DJ" for Nokia, but didn't get to be a success until it was reborn as an Iphone app called "moodagent" in December. 300k iPhone users downloaded in 3 weeks and about 400k Nokia users. The daily rate i
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Startup 'moodagent' has fun - 700k dl /~3weeks(news.cnet.com)
1 points by teralaser 17y ago|5 comments
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by teralaser 17y ago
"To put this into better context, the total current population of Europe and the United States is estimated to be 831m and 308m respectively." ? Say what ? EU is maybe 450-500m - you can't accuse the EU of doing bad things in countries outs
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by teralaser 17y ago
You have to succeed. From the moment you're born, odds are stacked against you, chances of getting born in a industrialized country is 20%, of being intelligent enough to read (or care about) this is <1%, to not fail education it's 80%,
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by teralaser 17y ago
good 2nd calls, except 6) ... 1987 was a bit technical actually, while we had 1998 (asia), 2000-2001 (dotcom/tech), and with those US twin decifits (currency/government) still out of whack, it won't take long for the next one. We only patch
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by teralaser 17y ago
Levitt/Dubner themselves mentioned, there is more than money at play in much decision making, such as morals, bad conscience. One issue (book) that comes to mind is generousity: http://www.amazon.com/Generous-Man-Helping-Others-Sexiest/dp.
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by teralaser 17y ago
The Economist is up in arms with the new Britain "let's tax the rich too" , for instance -out of many articles- http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
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by teralaser 17y ago
Here is Economist's take on it (albeit more technology-oriented) : http://www.economist.com/search/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15...
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Lord Monckton on Climategate at the 2nd International Climate Conference(vimeo.com)
1 points by teralaser 17y ago|0 comments
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by teralaser 17y ago
Did you ever pick up a (personality) trait or habit from a co-worker, although you didnt want to ? Did you ever have trouble understanding how a policeman ignores obvious insults and stays cool ? Feelings are catchy like the flu, but remem

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