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Similarly, I always feel a bit bad for Jon Rubinstein when I read articles like this. Tony Fadell didn't take over the iPod division until the 3rd Generation (the one with the funn…

Is it just me or does this author have an affiliation with TechStars? (For instance: see http://vimeo.com/5346690 )

These "gift" investigations and the game theory behind them are somewhat troubling. Most medium to large sized technology companies that get big enough to attract parasites will gl…

I'm pretty sure there is an XKCD about this. Didn't we conclude yesterday that there was a fundamental flaw in the original author's assumptions in how tips get reported and prelim…

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There is a fascinating documentary/long-form article in VICE about another Nike missile silo in Kansas that was backed by a VC and fronted as Y2K fallout shelter/precision spring m…

>>So to my mind this was relatively innocent activity and I would have never thought... Whether or not you are genuinely naïve about the terms connotations, I suspect there is a pe…

This article is riddled with fallacies. 1) Because a government can implement a genocide, a region with no government won't be subject to genocide. (See historical territorial anne…

The problem doesn't end there. Once these drugs' exclusive rights expire and "generic brand" prescriptions are allowed to compete, most insured patients will still prefer the "name…

You'll probably be waiting longer than that. One of the reasons China opted for the hand drawn approach is it lets them control what is and (more importantly) isn't shown.

Oh FFS, really? Really?? There are an infinite number of ways to communicate how not to do things. Enumerating them only serves to decrease the entropy rate. What I suspect is most…

I'm sorry, but how is this news worthy? As far as I can tell, some guy bought a copy of VMWare Fusion with a moderately poor customer experience, can't activate it within the first…

You're not a big fan of packing light, are you?

Free startup idea: wordpress blog giving a $10 bounty per back scatter image submitted, post adwords, simultaneously profit and raise an uproar.

Unless you already have the partnerships with the credit card processors and the capital to protect yourself from fraud (90% of the work) - I would release the design as open sourc…