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Up and Then Downnewyorker.com
Nick Paumgarten’s 2008 story about a man who spent the weekend in an elevator. “The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999 . . . .” -
GoPro and Its Founder to Sell More Shares 5 Months After I.P.O.dealbook.nytimes.com
The follow-on offering will allow the company to raise more money for hiring employees and making acquisitions as well as take control over how more of its shares enter the public markets. -
English-speaking jobs in Germanyenglishjobs.de
Job board and curated search engine for English-speaking jobs in Germany - news.ycombinator.com
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SpaceX Will Announce Micro-Satellites For Low Cost Internet Within Three Monthstechcrunch.com
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s startup, is committed to bringing space travel to the masses. Now Musk has also confirmed on Twitter that SpaceX is working on a fleet.. -
How to Sell Your Company - Jacques Mattheijjacquesmattheij.com
A while ago an anonymous HN user wrote an ‘Ask HN’ titled: “HN: Just received an offer for our company, what now?” That … -
"Time Collapse" And My Broken Brainuncrunched.com
I was perusing the news headlines this evening and I noticed this article about Glenn Beck's health troubles. A few sentences early on in the article floored me, because it describes how I feel exa... - github.com
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Google’s Chromebooks Rule Schools As IDC Pegs Them As Top Sellers In K-12techcrunch.com
Google's Chrome OS may be a long-term sleeper hit thanks to a growing user population among U.S. students – IDC's new figures for tablets and laptop sales.. - kimonolabs.com
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Police Can Seize And Sell Assets Even When The Owner Broke No Lawnpr.org
Civil asset forfeiture rules say all that matters is that the car or house or cash was used by somebody in a crime. Challenging the seizure is often too costly to be worth it. - bbc.com
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Google Discussiegroepengroups.google.com
Met Google Discussiegroepen kun je online forums en e-mailgroepen maken en eraan deelnemen. Bovendien profiteer je van uitgebreide opmaakmogelijkheden voor communitygesprekken. - strangehorizons.com
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The Crowdsourcing Scam - The Bafflerthebaffler.com
In 1968 a Norwegian science fiction writer named Tor Åge Bringsværd published a peculiar short story called “Codemus.” The story has achieved the kind of retrospectively prophetic quality that makes sci-fi such a useful imaginative... Read More » -
How we've made Raptor up to 4x faster than Unicorn, up to 2x faster than Puma, Torqueboxrubyraptor.org
Ruby web server up to 4x faster than Unicorn, up to 2x faster than Puma and Torquebox.