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Re:The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed ... on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @01:48PM (#7593219)
It's a joke that the media has continued to dig and dig on as a serious consideration.

Google X's Chief of Moonshots (effectively the CEO), Astro Teller, alludes to the space elevator being a fun joke in his SXSW 2013 speech [1], including confirmation of it never being taken seriously by the team.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8mTHgaLQ7w

Re:Life-size Lego car runs on air on Thursday December 19, 2013 @09:49AM (#6934906)
The Australian press? Try all press.
Re:Target stores hit by data breach affecting 40 million cards on Thursday December 19, 2013 @09:44AM (#6934882)
He's not presuming the PIN is ON the card, but that the transaction was the point of compromise (i.e. you punching in your PIN and the software running a verification of if that PIN is correct).

Ask HN: How to organize your Twitter feed like HN

Posted by joecurry on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @08:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Obviously everyone gets inundated with information from their twitter feed, sadly from their most admired collection of people. There has to be a more organized way to sort through the information and make the value rise to the top.A simple algorithm, similar to HN would do the trick- curating information from your favorite people to make the funniest, or most intelligent post rise to the top....

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Re:Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:27AM (#6921589)
For perspective - let's make them pay it all back, retroactively, from the year 2000 as the article suggest. Now we will have (roughly due to compounding) tackled 0.0058% of the current US deficit leaving us with $17,133,947,996,837 or 99.994%.

For those who prefer a visual perspective - http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.htm...

I'm not convinced focusing on these tiny (relatively) loopholes on the "world's richest", should be the focus of trying to fix the problem.

Re:Google Zeitgeist 2013 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:00AM (#6921411)
I would prefer a .txt file list over this, I can't even tell the order without individual clicks.
Re:News is bad for you on Thursday December 12, 2013 @11:03AM (#6895118)
The rebuttal from Dobelli >> http://www.dobelli.com/book-corrections/taleb
Re:Watsi x Goldbely Holiday Gift Package on Monday November 25, 2013 @05:19PM (#6797478)
I would buy 10 if I could ship on a particular date and have the gift card filled out in advanced.
Re:Facelift: Watsi Mobile on Thursday September 19, 2013 @10:50AM (#6411963)
This is how you get a job.
Re:CIA is largest US spy agency, according to black budget leaked by E... on Friday August 30, 2013 @09:40AM (#6301637)
How is this news? I don't need a budget, or Snowden to tell me the obvious.
Re:Observations from a Tipless Restaurant on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @01:46PM (#6128646)
From real world experience - the argument is just semantics, whether it's a forced tip-out or a voluntary tip-out, in practice, the result is usually the same with cash tips.

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