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The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive

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Re: The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive

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Post by mkuhn » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 8:04 AM UTC

freeslave wrote: post #5

i wonder what the final price tag on this was? has anyone seen a number put on it?

I have seen the number of around $50 million mentioned. But am not sure where anymore.

Big expense but the exposure is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions if not billions.

Re: The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive

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Post by benologist » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 12:07 PM UTC

I've been curious for a long time why Ziff Davis devotes so much attention to spamming HN. And then today it clicked after I saw this story at the top or /r/technology submitted a couple hours after it was popular on HN.

HN provides a vector for popular spam submissions here to be legitimately submitted on Reddit, without all the hassle of spam detection and moderators getting in the way.

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