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Wow! Amazon and Walmart have captured 80% of online retail sales in India. Modern colonialism.

I wish I could find videos of people actually writing complex functional programming code. These talks seem to just reiterate the same things and all example code is too simple for…

Wouldn't be more effective to target parts of their economy that hurts they're most vulnerable members of society and spread from there? They could potentially start a mainland rev…

Well that's kind of dramatically different than how the press is portraying it.

This is simultaneously really cool and really sad.

It sounds like the removal of the vial was done on-site for somewhat reasonable reasons, but in the future they ought to have a temporary structure erected during removal so that i…

The articles says if the hackers were some jokers on the internet then the data isn’t terribly useful, but if it was an adversarial nation then it is very useful. Why? Can’t the jo…

Is that a tesseract shaped bubble?

One day Google will regret having made Android open source and will try to fix it, but is it possible?

Hm, another tax? No, thank you.

Best announcement on e3. I was waiting for this type of game so much.

I remember watching one of those emergency room shows years back. Three guys go in for swelling in the brain, due to the rat worm. Their conditions got worse, until they administer…

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the label’s metadata is always present and accurate. Labels have been screwing artists for over a century.

Well the question is if Blizzard ports Hearthstone to Linux as a “hey, we have a beta for you guys”, and bring some buzz. The annoying part is the battle.net launcher.

As Verchot says, REDD-mechanism was designed to offset deforestation and it is not designed to work as a carbon credit system. Both are important but maybe they should be kept sepa…

America is rife with de facto monopolies and duopolies. That is our version of capitalism which champions competition but its all talk with little walk. That the government would p…

"PayPal really doesn't care that the world's most popular browser no longer displays the EV visual indicator." Funny story - I was about to rant that yeah, it probably wasn't by de…