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"He had just sold 400 Bitcoins, he told Betabeat, which he planned to buy back in the morning." "You can’t do more sophisticated strategies." Which just shows that the entire finan…

I was a freshman in college in 1996 and remember PowerPoints being used in my courses then, so that change is pretty old... and we're still using them today. The reality is that we…

> Yes, there is, to the extent that that rule is legitimate. Usually, just powers arise from the consent of the governed. For example, sane people pay taxes because they understand…

The last one is ok, but I like thinner fonts. MS fonts are legally available on Linux (just accept the license). I know that may be blasphemy to some, but here's how fonts look on …

> I'm not sure if vocabulary size matters once you reach around 25,000 words. This is what I was thinking. I scored 34K, and rarely encounter a word that I don't understand in regu…

Peacekeeper Benchmark Firefox 5.0 - 1650 Firefox 8.0a1 - 1972 19.5% improvement. Pretty much dead on. Specs: Core i3 M330 2.13 GHz, Linux i386 http://clients.futuremark.com/peaceke…

If there's a place anywhere on G+ for a reddit-style up/downvote system, it is Sparks. Let me teach it what I am interested in.

If I'm reading that article correctly, GoDaddy is more than $1 billion in debt?

I'm ok with apps on G+ if they provide an option to turn off all notifications / spam. You can "turn off platform apps" in Facebook but still have to hide the posts individually. I…

No, no. Stupid and ignorant adults are a wildly profitable resource for corporations, advertisers, and marketers. That's not exploitation; it's capitalism. But the children, they m…

And Gmail was a calculated and intelligent response to Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail?

The killer advantage that he didn't mention is that Google search is used by a billion people worldwide, and is probably the start page for at least half of them. You still have to…

I was wondering how long the posts could be and hoping that it could be like a blog integrated in your social feed. Yet another thing about Google+ that pleasantly surprises me.

"The Enterprise" operates at a glacial pace and has been holding back innovation on the web. "The Enterprise" is the reason why 10% of Internet users are still using IE6. I'm glad …

Right, Circles only solves the sharing problem. Diaspora has a much larger ambition. Federation allows for communication between instances that are owned and operated by different …

This is exactly what I was thinking, since I saw that presentation last year. It could be that the Diaspora guys were inspired by the Google research, and not the other way around.…

This is more "crypto nerd imagination", a la the XKCD comic. The FBI doesn't care about the encrypted passwords because it has access to all the content in plaintext. And what else…

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