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I'm concerned that names and addresses alone seem to be enough for these guys to do meaningful ID theft with. The phone book is full of names and addresses anyone can get their han…

We suspected this was going on when we looked at the analytics for our ecommerce sites recently and noticed a big shift away from tablets towards mobile (Google breaks them out sep…

Things tend to go faster with cash buyers. In particular, no risk the bank will decline them for a mortgage. I suppose there's less difference if they're preapproved.

Which city are you in, out of curiosity?

I believe it's all on Youtube these days...

Those of us who were investors in bank stocks back in 2008 saw alot of large insider buys, including multi-million ones, from CEOs and top execs looking to reassure investors. In m…

One of my favorite texts back in my college days was The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski. USA folks may not be familiar with this. It was actually more of a polished transcript of…

On that note, Europe has more than one waiting room these days. Malta and parts of Italy seem to be fulfilling a similar role for illegal migrants coming north from Africa, for exa…

Again this is not black and white. There are plenty of non-VC funded companies that scaled quickly and had enough of an impact that you could say they "changed the world" to some e…

And religious wars over which is the better editor will likely still be ongoing...

>>Authorities in Rome now hope to reconstruct the imposing, 17-metre-wide, 15-metre-long marble arch, in a project that would cost at least €1 million (£718,000). Given the size of…

There is now also the option to use an Arduino-compatible IDE with the ESP8266: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

Actually that is still a pretty good location for steel mills, as well as other industries, like Bitcoin mining farms (perhaps those fall under datacenters...).

Of course terms matter, but the example she gives seems somewhat contrived. Particularly this part: >> In the deal, Hooli would invest $200 million for equity while in return the t…

>> I'll invoice you for the privilege I would have no hesitation on actually bringing this up. Charge him your regular rate and refund him 50% off your fee if he later hires you.

This is my 2009 vintage Acer netbook running Lubuntu: http://i.imgur.com/xU1IhRY.jpg

>> The VCs have fully grown into their role of king-makers, injecting huge sums of cash to end the game for all competitors almost instantly, create a "natural monopoly", Yes, capi…

>> Both companies soon began to struggle under new ownership, burdened by new and huge debt obligations and falling demand during the financial crisis. The debt obligations are the…

title: "The Man Who Knows Whether Any Startup Will Live or Die" text: ""He admits the models will never be perfect, but thinks that even a model that’s only right about 50 percent …

That would be an easy one to answer - Zuckerberg did all the coding and hired a non-technical founder. More aggravating are the ones who think they're the next Steve Jobs and just …

The other reason the latter is a better plan is because when executing to a rigid plan, people tend to miss or ignore the opportunities that present themselves. This is like people…

Approximately 400 bugs in the colony if you do the math. 180k bites, 8 years, fed weekly.

Direct line of sight probably would be off the table because of the thick cloud layer in the Venusian atmosphere. Radar imaging as has been previously been done by orbiting probes …