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Why Gentrification Is Good for Poor Neighborhoods(economist.com)
1 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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McLaren F1 Tech Applied to Other Industries(wired.com)
76 points by valhalla 11y ago|16 comments
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by valhalla 11y ago
What organization/corporation approves all of these releases? I'd imagine Tolkien's estate is extremely aggressive in preserving his legacy, especially if the new books are so different from what's made his novels loved
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by valhalla 11y ago
Probably true, but they're the most effective tool that would have the greatest singular impact available to us right now.
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by valhalla 11y ago
Pundits have always made somewhat of a sport predicting a tech bubble bursting. Some of Manjoo's ideas of what could bring about a "bubble" bursting are ludicrous (read: a "Donald Trump inauguration??") If anythin
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by valhalla 11y ago
I heard a synopsis of the book on BBC World News this morning. It's obviously a first novel ( very different from LOTR) given the subject matter: familial murder and incest :/
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by valhalla 11y ago
I wouldn't say a founder shouldn't take VC money, just use VC money to fund processes that are essential to building a healthy, viable business: hire staff, market expansion and user acquisition, product improvements, etc. Buy t
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by valhalla 11y ago
On a maglev train.
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by valhalla 11y ago
Could Apple take legal action if Amazon were to try that? (hypothetically of course)
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Netflix Viewership Finally Gets a Yardstick(wsj.com)
7 points by valhalla 11y ago|4 comments
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by valhalla 11y ago
I could be wrong, but the projections are extrapolations based on obviously overly optimistic assumptions about the a) the federal government's desire to fund large, multiyear scientific projects b) the ease of creating an economical
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by valhalla 11y ago
Is the reason Amazon isn't releasing this for iOS because of Apple's closed ecosystem or is Google just a bigger competitive threat?
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by valhalla 11y ago
Does anyone know where one could find (if YC's published the stat) of the median/average age for the founders of the companies worth > $1 billion and $100 million?
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Mathematic Proof That All Hipsters Look the Same [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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What Is the Universe Really Made Of?(economist.com)
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Why Are Some Non-Technical Founders Unwilling to Learn About Technical Concepts?
3 points by valhalla 11y ago|2 comments
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by valhalla 11y ago
"Learn Python the Hard Way" is what I'm using now and it's been pretty awesome at making me figure out where my scripts/programs went wrong so I can fix them myself and learn from my mistakes. They also have a bunch
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by valhalla 11y ago
"How To Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff. It's a pretty old book (1954). But it talks about the most common uses of statistics in everyday life (marketing reasearch and infographics showing extrapolating trends inaccurate
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Beyond the Internet, Innovation Struggles(wsj.com)
2 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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Plan B for Iran: The Massive Ordnance Penetrator(politico.com)
1 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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Why the Damage From Climate Change Is Hard to Quantify(economist.com)
2 points by valhalla 11y ago|1 comments
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Why Low Oil Prices Won't Hurt Electric Car Sales(economist.com)
8 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments