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Uber slapped with suit by 45 city taxi companiesphilly.com
A group of 45 Philadelphia taxi companies filed suit in federal court here Tuesday, claiming Uber, the app-based taxi enterprise, is waging unfair competition against medallion owners who must operate under state laws and regulations. -
First Map of Antartica’s Moving Ice : Image of the Dayearthobservatory.nasa.gov
Mapping the motion of Antarctica’s ice sheets for the first time revealed unsuspected patterns never seen before. - yager.io
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Leaked "The Interview" Movie Torrent Gets Over 50,000 Leechers In Less Than 1hrnetloid.com
We reported earlier today that “The Interview” will be available for rental on Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s Xbox Video, and Sony’s dedicated website www.seetheinterview.com, starting at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET on Dec. 24. On Sony’s site, The I... -
Each New Boot a Miracleascii.textfiles.com
This week, we got the emulation of MS-DOS programs (mostly) working on the Internet Archive. Up to now, every single emulated system has been via the JSMESS project, which supports well over 600 sy... -
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Four Beautiful Python, R, MATLAB, and Mathematica plots with LaTeXr-bloggers.com
LaTeX lets you create lovely, complex mathematical functions from typed text. Plotly will render LaTeX in annotations, labels, and titles. In this post, we’ll show how it works. 1. MATLAB plotting with LaTeX First, here’s an example using Plotly’s MAT... -
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In an All-Digital Future, It’s the New Movies That Will Be in Troublevulture.com
When it comes to preserving movies, the digital revolution may turn out to be a catastrophe. - joeyh.name
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Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever – Lary Wallace – Aeonaeon.co
As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity -
Instagram has a drug problemventurebeat.com
Instagram has ushered in a golden age for the drug trade. You read that correctly: Thousands of accounts -- perhaps many more -- are currently selling marijuana, prescription pills, ecstasy, and ot... -
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Getting Started With Elm | The Pragmatic Studiopragmaticstudio.com
The Pragmatic Studio: Top developer training from the folks who wrote the books -
Why influence mapping matters to journalism - pudo.org (Friedrich Lindenberg)pudo.org
Building Grano started with a desire to map political and economic influences. Developing it further has made us re-examine our motivations: why would journalists want software to help map out the connections between people in politics and industry? -
Introducing BitShares Object Graphbytemaster.bitshares.org
Join me as I explore free market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property for all. -
Welcoming Brad Feld to the Mattermark Team — Announcing our $6.5M Series Amedium.com
Mattermark has closed a $6.5M Series A led by Foundry Group, with Brad Feld joining our Board of Directors. -
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