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yes but if you look at the decade before that, it was pretty common about 3-10 or so bank takeovers per year, from the link below.

Dell and Apple can learn that there are consumers out there who want low cost minimalist options with long battery lives and long operational lives. Not everyone wants to buy a bra…

here are the reasons I hate apple more than facebook: 1. they force developers to buy mac os x to work on their platform 2. their app store monopoly is extremely hostile towards de…

energy from key presses: really cool idea. i hope that gets documented somewhere so the patent trolls don't try to patent it or something.

i love the minimalist concept of a laptop with so much battery life: Dell and Apple could learn something from this. so that gray piece on the right is the solar collector, right? …

I'd say HN quality is way way better than Reddit, entirely due to the audience. Reddit is very much anti-knowledge, anti-solution, anti-reason whereas HN features intelligent discu…

those salaries aren't so inflated when you consider the cost of living over there. Want to rent a modest 2 bedroom house in palo alto? that'll be about 90K per year. After taxes, t…

most people at these companies don't last very long. if you doubt that, just take a look at the average person's linkedIn or resume. You'll see the average tenure at a tech company…

i really don't understand why people don't like facebook. they're no worse than apple or your ISP (now they're truely evil). dissinfo? just unusubscribe or don't follow that accoun…

If you were to electrify all the vehicles in the world today (and the developing world hasn't even got lots of cars yet), it would take 1/2 the world's known supply of lithium. and…

my interpretation of this is that the tech recession will take a long time to enter into and the winding down of tech is going to take several years at least.

we as users, need to start finding alternatives to Google and Youtube. Not to stop using google/youtube but to diversify. Sure, today, the vast majority of users of Google and Yout…

Regulation isn't a silver bullet. Maybe a little bit for certain things. But, You'll never be able to develop enough rules to make sure everyone is treated fairly. the best way out…

Most media companies effectively have this as a single point of failure: Google Search. And, it's not from lack of trying to diversify. Countless businesses must depend on it, espc…

Thanks for the list but you forgot one of the best series of all times that contains many libraries: A Series of Unfortunate events. I'm slightly ashamed to say I saw it on netflix…

I agree with all this except the sunscreen part. I was under the impression that sunscreen can actually increase the chance of cancer. Furthermore, sunscreen does block vitamin-D. …

On being married: Your speculation is right on the money. Having a wife/husband increases your network size especially if you're a sit at home homebody type (lolz). Their friends b…

you forgot one thing: Pay a tiny fraction of what others are paying for real-estate Check Take the savings and invest in retirement portfolio and retire early Check

What's awesome here, is that he/she's created a solution to a problem that almost everyone has. It might need a little work, as shown by other comments. but the core idea is a good…

degree inflation means A degree is less valued by employers, thus jobs that used to require bachelors, now require masters (because there's too many people running around with bach…

Pushing more and more people to go to college isn't going to raise productivity. It will just lead to even more degree inflation. We've been seeing degrees pay out less and less as…

The book "1776" changed the way I thought about many many things. It's about the military presence and the early years of the US Colonies and the British presence as well. Everythi…

personally, I'd rather have something that's smaller and better looking than large and ugly.

I don't mind living in a small house (maybe not that small). But, the problem with most houses I see today, is that they're designed incredibly Ugly. I'm talking about the classic …

All this AI risk could be mitigated by not giving them access to any weapons. AI shouldn't have access to military equipment, gases, explosives or anything else that poses large sc…