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And the American who said it stole that phrase from a Spaniard (Steve Jobs popularized it but he was quoting Pablo Picasso).

https://newsroom.uber.com/uber-china-didi/ Doesn't say much more than what's covered in the Bloomberg article.

It is a taxable LLC. He doesn't get the tax-benefits of setting up a nonprofit, but he has much more freedom in how to use the money (e.g. including making investments vs donations…

None of them https://info.internet.org/en/2015/11/19/internet-org-myths-a...

1,500 miles of high voltage transmission lines would cost a lot ($billions). Much more than the economic benefit of sharing power resources across the distinct markets. AEMO's Nati…

No, but most of the early infrastructure for the internet was publicly-funded (between government labs and universities).

I was looking for a citation for this study and found a good overview on Wikipedia (with citations), in case others are interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination…

Agreed. Note the source -- folks who had gone home to die and spoke with a palliative care nurse, Bronnie Ware. There are many people who die without access to in-home hospice care…

The battery lights display useful information by being visibly off. When you see 7 dots light up, you need to be able to see the 8th dark hole to know it's at 7/8 charge and not 7/…

Before you consider buying a company and selling off its assets, you have to realize that when you own a company you also own its debt, and that if you liquidate you have to pay of…

I was also struck by the eye candy. Looks like they're using d3, with Isotope for animations. The projects' websites should get you started: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ http://i…

> equivalent would be that you're allowed to take out a fire insurance policy on your neighbors house, and then proceed to smoke cigarettes and flick the lit butts at his house Yes…