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Switzerland is expensive but not THAT expensive.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/this-man-made-bill-gates-so-w...
Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?
The biggest part for me is not the repository of knowledge that I am building though - is is the social aspects of the product. A new tab extension allows me to see the links stored by people I follow and the quality of those links has been very high - although I have to be diligent with unfollowing noisy people that do not fit my interest spectrum. The Refind stream has drastically reduced my Twitter usage as I just get my daily dose of inspiring articles and content there.
Mixed-Reality Game Has a Killer Mercedes Chasing People IRL
Thank you Microsoft and Goodbye
Based on that it was definitely built for higher load than just a few pedestrians.
Edit: The German language Wikipedia article actually confirms this [1]. It states that the bridge was built for a traffic load of 13 tons and that the new bridge was built in 1993 to increase capacity. The old bridge was thoroughly renovated after the new bridge had been constructed. The bridge actually is well documented and is under protection as an architectural landmark. It was exhibited in the MoMA for a long time.
Based on the amount of prep these guys put into this and the available documentation I don't see why they should not have checked if what they wanted to do is possible.
[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_de_Gueuroz
Edit 2: Some fascinating pictures from the time of construction: http://www.swiss-timber-bridges.ch/detail/193
Jet Engineer Designs a Saucepan That Boils Water Ridiculously Fast
Inside the Artificial Brain That’s Remaking the Google Empire
[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-doekbrijder/2b/384/43a
One reason that has been handed around to explain the no votes is that people do not want more regulation and think that this minimum wage would hurt more than it would help. Also: A large portion of people (90%+) already earn more than this minimum wage.
[Update 13:42 CET] It now looks like it is going to be rejected with 77% of the vote. Quite a statement.
Uber, The Next $100 Billion Company
I gather that at that price domain grabbers would just start to register everything (within reason). Then we would deal with some kind of secondary market where domains would be priced by their attractiveness and not sold as a common good (this obviously is already the case for many good domains).