Umalu

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by Umalu 11y ago
Japanese parents probably were never warped by "milk carton kids" -- throughout the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S., we'd see missing kids plastered on the sides of our milk cartons. It made people think that kids were being kidn
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by Umalu 12y ago
Two disparate observations: 1. US GDP per capita is still almost 8x that of China: $53,042 US vs. $6,807 China ( http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD ). While there are other ways to measure this (such as t
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by Umalu 13y ago
In 2007 The Believer ran what I think is the definitive account of the Codex Seraphinianus: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/?read=article_taylo... The Codex was likely inspired by the Borges story "T
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AmazonFresh is Jeff Bezos’ Last Mile Quest for Total Retail Domination(fastcompany.com)
2 points by Umalu 13y ago|0 comments
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Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created(newyorker.com)
9 points by Umalu 13y ago|1 comments
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by Umalu 13y ago
The "UK reporter" is Glenn Greenwald, an American: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald
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Will Programmers Rule? (project-syndicate.org)
1 points by Umalu 14y ago|0 comments
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A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked(businessweek.com)
1 points by Umalu 14y ago|0 comments
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by Umalu 14y ago
The documentary "A State of Mind" is terrifically disturbing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_State_of_Mind ). Follow two participants in North Korea's Mass Games as they prepare to put on a show for the Dear Leader. Filled with "only in NK
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Look Out He’s Got a Phone: Smartphones as Weapons(vanityfair.com)
2 points by Umalu 14y ago|0 comments
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Airport Security Is Killing Us(businessweek.com)
263 points by Umalu 14y ago|254 comments
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The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm(businessweek.com)
7 points by Umalu 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple as hegemonic swarm(ultimibarbarorum.com)
1 points by Umalu 15y ago|0 comments
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by Umalu 15y ago
The Packers recently sold new shares for $250 each, so by buying one share you could claim to be a co-owner. See: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7633420/green-bay-packers-...
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The Setup: Andy Hertzfeld(andy.hertzfeld.usesthis.com)
6 points by Umalu 15y ago|2 comments
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Smoke Screening: Journalist tests TSA(vanityfair.com)
293 points by Umalu 15y ago|95 comments
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The Parable of RIM: Dediu on the coordinated effort to fail in mobile(asymco.com)
2 points by Umalu 15y ago|0 comments
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A font made from human leg hair(asiajin.com)
2 points by Umalu 15y ago|0 comments
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by Umalu 15y ago
There are actually laws prohibiting non-banks from using the word "bank" in their name. A lot of bank holding companies (which are not, technically, banks) got around this by replacing the "k" in "bank" with a "c" -- such as "BancAmerica Co
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The Setup: Zed Shaw(zed.shaw.usesthis.com)
153 points by Umalu 15y ago|69 comments
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The Setup: William Gibson(william.gibson.usesthis.com)
86 points by Umalu 15y ago|69 comments
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Amazon’s Silk Is A Cloud OS for the Client(wired.com)
4 points by Umalu 15y ago|0 comments
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Google+ Opens to All(googleblog.blogspot.com)
300 points by Umalu 15y ago|175 comments
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A Tweet is Worth (at Least) 140 Words With this Compression Algorithm(thevirtuosi.blogspot.com)
67 points by Umalu 15y ago|38 comments
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How Much Does Each Piece of Apple's iPhone Cost?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by Umalu 15y ago|0 comments
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Does Marijuana Make You Stupid?(wired.com)
8 points by Umalu 15y ago|7 comments
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How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code(theatlantic.com)
339 points by Umalu 15y ago|62 comments
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by Umalu 15y ago
I have this quote from Charlie Munger taped above my desk: "You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't hav
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by Umalu 15y ago
I love this Walt Disney quote from the post: "We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies." That is exactly what separates great content providers (the top 1%) from hacks (the other 99%). HN commenters often dismis
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by Umalu 15y ago
A lot of cash rich multi-national companies have this foreign cash "problem." They earn it overseas and can't bring it back without paying U.S. tax on it, so they leave it there. On page 31 of Google's 10-Q it says that $17 billion of its $

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