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Pryor Cashman law firm as sponsors. That's the firm that did the Ethereum sale too.
I am curious if they are going to create a coin for this stuff, it looks very natural.
I think we need more blockchain application that getting down to reality. It looks like the online hackathon going to the right way.
Re:Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:32AM (#12380376)

  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone   
  else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living 
  with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let 
  the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner 
  voice. And most important, have the courage to follow 
  your heart and intuition. 
    -- Steve Jobs
I am curious who is sponsoring them, it looks like an interesting project.
Re:Why the Navy Needs Disruption – Now on Monday August 01, 2016 @02:42AM (#12200580)
Quote:

  This is the second of a two-part post following my stay   
  on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Part 1 talked 
  about what I saw and learned - the layout of a carrier, 
  how the air crew operates and how the carrier functions 
  in context of the other ships around it (the strike 
  group.) But the biggest learning was the realization 
  that disruption is not just happening to companies, 
  it’s also happening to the Navy. And that the Lean 
  Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption 
  and create continuous innovation for large commercial 
  organizations were equally relevant here.
Re:A Weapon for Readers by Tim Parks (2014) on Monday August 01, 2016 @02:39AM (#12200571)
Quote: We have too much respect for the printed word, too little awareness of the power words hold over us. We allow worlds to be conjured up for us with very little concern for the implications. We overlook glaring incongruities. We are suckers for alliteration, assonance, and rhythm. We rejoice over stories, whether fiction or “documentary,” whose outcomes are flagrantly manipulative, self-serving, or both. Usually both. If a piece of writing manifests the stigmata of literature— symbols, metaphors, unreliable narrators, multiple points of view, structural ambiguities—we afford it unlimited credit. With occasional exceptions, the only “criticism” brought to such writing is the kind that seeks to elaborate its brilliance, its cleverness, its creativity. What surprised me most when I first began publishing fiction myself was how much at every level a novelist can get away with.
I like the idea of building stuff out of wood. Then we can have nice buildings and store carbon