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In Silicon Valley, Morgan Stanley Reignsnytimes.com
Since Facebook’s bumpy initial offering, Morgan Stanley has been involved in 47 technology public offerings with a total value of $23.4 billion. -
Losing Confidence in Creative Commonsmarteydodoo.com
How a privacy breach of donor information caused me to lose confidence in Creative Commons. - blockchain.info
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Writers Feel an Amazon-Hachette Spatnytimes.com
Amazon’s secret campaign to discourage customers from buying books by Hachette, one of the big New York publishers, burst into the open on Friday. -
Change the visibility of your Gistsgithub.com
Because we love sharing, we use Gist every day to pass snippets of code, writing, notes, and more to each other. One thing we've noticed with all this sharing is that we've all created Public Gists that we meant to make Secret and vice versa. Starting... - businessweek.com
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Oracle wins copyright ruling against Google over Androidreuters.com
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp won a legal victory against Google Inc on Friday as a U.S. appeals court decided Oracle could copyright parts of the Java programming language, which Google -
How We Get Talltheatlantic.com
Men grew four inches in 100 years, mostly in the early 20th century. How they managed that speaks to how our childhood living conditions influence our stature. -
The Case Against Time Warner-Comcast Just Got Strongertomsguide.com
An executive at Level 3 Communications accuses ISPs of throttling traffic to get more money out of Netflix, other content providers. - philly.hshackers.org
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What is an appropriate level of Basic Income?hawkins.ventures
This is part 2 in an ongoing series. See part 1 for a better overview of Basic Income, how we define it, and why we think it is important. “ It is better to have a permanent income than to be... - github.com
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Why the U.S. is still paying for the Civil War:online.wsj.com
This is the story of 84-year-old Irene Triplett, who still receives a VA pension for her father's service in the Civil War. The VA is also still paying benefits to 16 widows and children of veterans from the 1898 Spanish-American War and 4,038 widows, ... - cr.yp.to
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A Synthetic Biology Conference Lures an Intriguing Audiencenytimes.com
Both the F.B.I. and Homeland Security were in attendance at talks at M.I.T. about the engineering of organisms and its ability to help and harm. -
Facebook Is Down For Many | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Facebook's website is down for many. The voluminous reports on Twitter, and corroborating evidence, are pretty plain: For many, Facebook is not working at.. -
How Mozilla Amazon EC2 Usage Got 15X Cheaper in 8 Months - All About Performancetaras.glek.net
I started getting familiar with Mozilla continuous integration infrastructure in September. I’ve been particularly focused on the cloud part of …