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Ok most of the later ones are the usual suspects :-) ... and not so much "hardly existed last year".

My first thought was of Steve Case (AOL CEO), who said something similar in 1998-2000. (1) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/... (couldnt find an exact qu…

The bitcoin miner's experiences can also be found in the world of gold mining: http://www.economist.com/node/18774624

Hm, does Moonlight (linux port of Microsoft's Silverlight - their "flash/javafx/..." answer) also count as a Microsoft product for Linux? http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

Despite MtGox not being online, bitcoin trading has never been shutdown: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ Trading volume has been down a bit, especially just after MtGox closed, b…

It is probably not of the greatest interest to hn users, but banks, afaik , report - but not to the public, where I live (except for creditcard leaks). Wouldn't a major leak potent…

Yes, the article is a bit naive on the economics. There is a couple of similar articles that cover it a bit differently from "unknown author sell 1 million" to the direct announcem…

For those with some knowledge of electricity, what Tesla meant is nicely illustrated in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents

As long as Denmark has a growing "Danish People's Party" (3rd largest at 13.8%) in a government supporting role, with the one-trick pony voter's appeal of immigration (thus they ha…

Really, the highest earning "occupations" (or most prestigious) change as time goes: - in the 1800s many smart people became authors or poets. - in the 1950 many became physicists …

Here is another reason to write your passwords down: At my workplace there was a programmer. One day he had a heart attack, and was put into a 3 week artifiscal coma. When he woke …

LA Times, 2010: "Shut up and be scanned". LA Times, 1942 "shut up and go to your internment camp" http://www.theagitator.com/2010/11/22/shut-up-and-be-scanned...

I am not sure I agree so much with the presentation, but the mocking of the "Stanford alumnus experienced exec" is worth it for the smile.

I edited Zed Shaw out of the title.

The program was first born has "Playlist DJ" for Nokia, but didn't get to be a success until it was reborn as an Iphone app called "moodagent" in December. 300k iPhone users downlo…

"To put this into better context, the total current population of Europe and the United States is estimated to be 831m and 308m respectively." ? Say what ? EU is maybe 450-500m - y…

You have to succeed. From the moment you're born, odds are stacked against you, chances of getting born in a industrialized country is 20%, of being intelligent enough to read (or …