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Into the Bitcoin Minesdealbook.nytimes.com
In a bunker in Iceland, powerful computers are whirring 24 hours a day — and extracting an invisible currency. -
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Overstock.com Reportedly Plans To Accept Bitcoin In 2014 | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Overstock.com is moving to accept Bitcoin as payment in 2014, the CEO told The Financial Times. Apparently the retailer has the ambition to become the first.. -
Overstock to accept Bitcoinmoney.cnn.com
The online retailer plans to begin accepting the virtual currency next year, according to CEO Patrick Byrne. -
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The Late, Great American WASPonline.wsj.com
The old U.S. ruling class had plenty of problems, but are we really better off under today's meritocracy? -
Why 2014 is the 'year of smart glasses'computerworld.com
More than a dozen smart glass products are expected to ship in the first half of next year, ranging in price from $79 to $3,000. So raise your glass to the coming wave of face-top computing gadgets. - b.z19r.com
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A Technique for Producing Ideasfarnamstreetblog.com
James Webb Young — The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas. -
New Health Law Frustrates Many in Middle Classnytimes.com
While the Affordable Care Act clearly benefits those at the low and high ends of the income scale, many middle-class Americans don’t qualify for health care subsidies, and are facing steep premium prices. -
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Dependent Types for Safe and Secure Web Programmingedwinb.wordpress.com
To appear in the post-proceedings of IFL 2013, a paper by Simon Fowler and myself. Abstract: Dependently-typed languages allow precise types to be used during development, facilitating reasoning ab... -
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Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone | Gadget Lab | Wired.comwired.com
A new device revolution is at hand: Just as mobile phones and tablets displaced the once-dominant PC, so wearable devices are poised to push smartphones aside. -
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder -- Nassim Talebjseliger.wordpress.com
The Black Swan is so good that I've been running around telling everyone to read it, which naturally led me to its successor, Antifragile. It, by contrast, is an excellent book to get from the libr... -
Analysis: Lost Brazil order raises threat to Boeing fighter jetsreuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brazil's decision to buy Swedish fighter jets instead of F/A-18 Super Hornets from Boeing eliminates its most promising foreign-sales prospect just as the U.S. company faces critical - nbviewer.ipython.org
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A Brief History of NSA Backdoors.ethanheilman.tumblr.com
In response to the result revelations about the NSA backdooring RSA libraries I’ve compiled a brief incomplete history of NSA backdoors. Help me make it better by emailing corrections and additions to...