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TUI 737 weight incident traced to 'Miss' interpretation of female passengers(flightglobal.com)
6 points by ewood 5y ago|2 comments
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Alibaba Ant Group financials – 1058% YoY profit growth(twitter.com)
1 points by ewood 6y ago|0 comments
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Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts(theguardian.com)
105 points by ewood 6y ago|110 comments
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Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data(techcrunch.com)
181 points by ewood 7y ago|61 comments
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Parents Block Sick Child from Using Tele-Presence Robot(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by ewood 8y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 8y ago
Boostnote ( https://boostnote.io ) with notes stored in the relevant repos. Its not perfect (Boostnote really only supports local files) but it does mean our shared body of knowledge is versioned to what is in our repos. If someon
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Solar households expected to give away power to energy firms(theguardian.com)
3 points by ewood 8y ago|0 comments
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Bloodhound supersonic car hits financial roadblock(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ewood 8y ago|0 comments
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Data Protection Laws of the World(dlapiperdataprotection.com)
1 points by ewood 8y ago|0 comments
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How debt kills(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by ewood 8y ago|0 comments
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A Secretive Intelligence Agency, a High-Flying Contractor and a Big Data Breach(cyberresilience.io)
1 points by ewood 9y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 9y ago
True. I think that if Buffett wanted to address this problem his best option would be to fund an entity that could lobby on this issue and match dollar-for-dollar pharmaceutical company donations for house reps and senators that were willin
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by ewood 9y ago
Good points but important to point out that driving down costs may not be a net negative. From Buffett's comments in the video he seems to be indicating that business are more likely to make investment and hiring decisions on the basis
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by ewood 9y ago
Why the U.S. pays more for health care than the rest of the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBPKE28UF0
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Mipsdis: MIPS disassembler in the browser(blog.loadzero.com)
3 points by ewood 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Contact the Voyager 2 Probe(youtube.com)
4 points by ewood 9y ago|0 comments
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New Electronic Travel Ban Is Trade Protectionism for Legacy Airlines(forbes.com)
4 points by ewood 9y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 10y ago
Anyone here have deep insight on this? I thought a large part of the problem is the way that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is operating the market? Their mandate seems to be to prioritise price over reliability causing artifi
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by ewood 10y ago
In many cases it is not Bloomberg's monopoly but the data provider's. The licensing and royalty agreements between Bloomberg and the data provider have very onerous terms including restricting how many screens the data can be disp
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by ewood 10y ago
A investigative authority like the NTSB is a really interesting idea. If it had the authority to level fines against companies that have been negligent or acted without due care it might have a real effect on behavior. The only current reco
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by ewood 10y ago
Interesting summary of the process - http://thednetworks.com/2012/03/21/how-are-undersea-cables-l...
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French Presidential hopeful Melenchon appears as hologram at rally(youtube.com)
2 points by ewood 10y ago|1 comments
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Springtime for Scammers(nytimes.com)
1 points by ewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 10y ago
Before you get angry, you probably need to read the other 404 pages of the essay.
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New Rules on Data Privacy for Non-US Citizens(schneier.com)
4 points by ewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 10y ago
Many areas in London breach EU NOx limits hundreds of times each year - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/06/london-b...
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by ewood 10y ago
The US has higher absolute and effective corporate tax rates than EU countries and almost every country in the OECD. Tax treatment of equity compensation varies among European nations though.
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What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'(theguardian.com)
6 points by ewood 10y ago|0 comments
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There are two productivity puzzles(bankunderground.co.uk)
1 points by ewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by ewood 10y ago
Well, they're not "Wallstreet's dollars", it is international capital and it is happy to invest anywhere so long as it believes it will get a return. Possibly even happier to invest in an independent California if the go

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