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Is raising money from the companies willing to buy you an option? Instead if taking the $12M, you could take the $2M you need and dilute accordingly.

"charged customers 19 yuan ($2.90 USD) per umbrella deposit and an additional half yuan ($0.07 USD) per 30 minutes" So customers holding on to their umbrellas are bring charged 3.3…

You are right. It is difficult for me to remember and remove those when sharing.

The upside of irrationality. Ariely Germs guns and steel. Jared Diamond Influence, the psychology of persuasion. Cialdini Justice: what's the right thing to do. Sandel QED. Fyenman…

What is really worrying though is the normalization of privacy devaluation. Soon the uk will follow suite and then others. And sooner than later we ll be "back" to 1984

Isnt it weird that drasticly restrictive all encompassing rules are hastily pushed after attacks? Blanket Decryption of messages, and other privacy suppression rules will make inte…

Makes sense. However, how is that going to protect the US? The moment such information is public, perpetrators will not transport any digital devices with incriminating data. What …

I know that thesis. But i find that the middle class usually has a propensity to buying the more expensive items (even if it ends up being only marginally better than crap) because…

By the time this technology is out there, car keys would be obsolete. You would nt own a car.

Exactly. Not forgetting that radiation protection has nothing to do with the hardness of the casing. Lead is nowhere near hard and is one of the most used materials to shield from …

Sure, kids complicate things. They also have the unique attibute of being non-undoable. And life is surely much simpler without them. But aren't all enriching things in life compli…

Looks like a nicer minitel, which was around at the time. Perhaps it was apple's attempt to bring the concept to the us? Or sell it in france.

failures are at least as important a dataset as successes. Most technical entrepreneurs i know are very pattern oriented people. And in a way Reducing the datasets to successes wil…

AS i look at the rendering on this plane, all i could think of is "gee, this eerily looks like the SX from black & mortimer" http://images.gibertjoseph.com/media/catalog/product/ca…

A research on how to unwind grudges after long term conflicts. Specially for large scale conflicts (as opposed to personal conflicts). A notorious example would be the Arab, Iraeli…