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Sorry to quibble, but I don't think that's what "disintermediation" means. Disintermediation typically refers to "cutting out the middleman", not introducing additional middlemen. …

... and how much does the price increase in month 25?

Three hours seems extreme. I live in Manhattan and can get to LGA in under an hour on a public bus, or by taxi in 35-45 minutes, and a taxi to JFK might take an hour but certainly …

Google says "You need permission / This form can only be viewed by users in the owner's organization."

You could read this as a cautionary tale about the difficulty in launching a social networking service: Even with $1.6 million cash (earmarked for a development project in Pakistan…

The federal Animal Welfare Act specifically does not apply to farm animals, and many state statutes also make specific exceptions for agricultural operations. Cf. http://awic.nal.u…

The Guardian's UK stylesheet calls for this treatment of acronyms that are pronounced as a word -- people say "Icann", not "Eye See Aye En En" -- which does seem odd but may be acc…

There's no magical shorting mechanism -- you'd have to find a counterpart and enter into a futures contract. A few exchanges offer this as a service. [0] http://finance.fortune.cnn…

> ... did they point a gun at any of the suspects ... This may seem a minor point, but the housekeeper and other staff were not "suspects", they're innocent members of the public.

Intriguingly, 349 of the largest Bitcoin transactions ever are all part of an interconnected and obfuscated web of exchanges between November 2010 and August 2012, involving at lea…

Google has drastically lowered the pricing for their mapping service.

> ... the most densely populated zip codes ... It turns out that zip codes aren't as populous as you might imagine. As of the Y2K census, only a dozen zip codes have over 100,000 r…

I use a cooperating set of Mac apps: connect to the server using Cyberduck, browse to a file and double-click to open it in TextMate, edit the file and type command-s to save, peri…

Ripe for data-driven visualization. http://daytum.com/robynt/categories/191024

I'm getting the Etsy mini as well, and I'm in New York City. (The Etsy iframe that's being served is 368px wide, but your sidebar only has 300px available.)

As I understand it, there was some vague talk about being selective, in case they maxed out the capacity of the space, but in the end I believe they sent out tickets to everyone wh…

I was at the same FourSquare hackathon today, and you're right -- there was a lot of socializing going on, and there were people who seemed to be trying to figure out how to presen…

Sheesh, did you bother to read the linked document? The "client" in pubsub registers a call-back URL with the server, and the server then POSTs new data to that URL. No periodic po…

The Guardian has posted headers and metadata, but not the message bodies, as a Google Fusion Table: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=317391 Additional data link…

It's the latter -- the quoted passage is referring to relocating the existing long-term prisoners already housed at Guantanamo. ("Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison") My…