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You wouldn't be screwed if your business operates in Bitcoins, and your customers pay you in Bitcoins. If you take out a loan for 100 Bitcoins, you will still owe 100 Bitcoins, reg…

>> 1. at amazon.com, the only site I have been tracking the tablets in actual sales, the Xoom is either #1 or #2 in tablet sales over the past two months. I mean, it is ahead of ev…

I think Ronald Reagan basically defines himself as a communist here. He says communism is "the suppression of liberty in the name of a common good." But shortly before that, he sug…

When you talk about the richest country in the world, are you referring to Qatar or Luxembourg? According to the IMF and CIA World Factbook, Qatar has the highest GDP (PPP) per cap…

The pictures I've seen look like mDP to me. Apple invented Mini DisplayPort, so mDP is proprietary, but it's licensed for free and VESA later adopted it as part of the DisplayPort …

Clickable link: http://mit3k.com/ BTW, I used Pusher to implement the realtime comments, and it was ridiculously easy to integrate: http://pusherapp.com/

http://mit3k.com/ It's a simple site I built yesterday. The idea is to get people watching the same movie and allow them to comment on it in realtime. Each movie is a $0.99 iTunes …

"he also talked up the significant “value transfer” in financial terms that would come Nokia’s way as a result of reduced operating expenses and new revenue streams such as access …

I doubt this is actually true. Apple has always required in-app purchases to go through Apple. That's why the Kindle app pushes you out to Safari to make purchases. Despite what th…

"Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13" In 2010, Mike Beltzner (director of Firefox) announced that Flash causes more crashes than any other plugin. Ma…

stackoverflow said: "There’s also the 30 minute deploy cycle." ... "It is important to note that these issues are by no means specific to Azure; similar teething issues affect othe…

You don't need to download a unique .wwf file "viewer" according to the website: "WWF documents can be opened with most programs that can open PDFs." http://www.saveaswwf.com/en/fa…

Yes, but Dave's accidental tweet to the whole world came after Ron's email, didn't it? That's what really makes Dave look like a webtard - Ron told Dave not to "cause silicon valle…

It's worth noting that Kijiji and Gumtree are both owned by eBay. eBay also owns a stake in Craigslist.