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"Geothermal is currently at 533.8MW (of which 81.1MW is from the innovative wellheads technology raising geothermal capacity to about 32% of the total installed capacity. Our total…

Is it fair/unfair to chalk this down to plain objectivism? That the source of money isnt that important as long as it gives me a chance to Change The World™..?

Read you some Kevin Mitnick. 'Social engineering' as he calls it is very effective as an intrusion technique.

It's supposed to be a long-term purchase, which is how they will explain low sales volume. But this makes it hard when they'll want to release a better version of the phone. Or not…

There's been a debate for a while now about this. Clay Shirky, Walter Isaacson, Jakob Nielsen, Norman Hardy, Kevin Kelley and others have expressed arguments for and against(mostly…

By 'better than free', are you referring to this[1] by Kevin Kelly. To quote from it:When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. And goes ahead to list 8…

I think WhatsApp is where Twitter was during their Ascend-to-protocol Vs Just-push-Ads phase[1], only that WA is dead-set on not going down the Ad route. IMO their options are whet…

Hope its going to be added to the payments ISO standards. If that's a fitting home along with the W3C move, is it?

Sidenote: Which parses better: buzzfeed-esque, buzzfeedesque or buzzfedian?

Any direct relation(real or hypothetical) between the arrest and the movement of the ransom coins? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918545

Erm, how does taking money off the table when raising a round work? (just never heard of it)

Not failing to mention how handy that 'Menu-523' came in handy when the dpad wore down(usually the first keys to fail on a feature-phone). It kept me from having to buy a new phone…

There's this http://imgur.com/a/livAB . They go around schools and get kids to work on simple electronics projects. Just started and only concentrating on primary schools, but I th…

Related Read: Paper Money (1981) by 'Adam Smith' George J. W. Goodman.

It's true that it's useful but its the same mathematical talent that was (ab|mis)used by Losada, according to the article. What was useful here was Brown's scepticism, borne by him…

Or give him a drone(or parts/instructions to build one). That could be a better starting point I think.

Related: On that left-brain right-brain roles split(it's not really that way): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8989685

Any topic, any category. And, what's great about it?

FB & G+ are pushing so much to have data on their users actual identities, I wonder what they want to do with that database. Considering the move polarises some users.

This reminds me of an episode in Medium(Patricia Arquette) where people regretted jumping from buildings but only after they had jumped. i cant recall the exact plot(google effect?…

so we can start farming kyrt...and psycho-probbing spatio-analysts...[1] if only Asimov was around to see these events start to unfold. [1] Currents of Space - Isaac Asimov