Monthly Archives: June 2011

Freedom ranking of US states — [MAP]

US States freedom ranking (PDF): US States Freedom Ranking (2011): 1. New Hampshire 2. South Dakota 3. Indiana 4. Idaho 5. Missouri 6. Nevada 7. Colorado 8. Oregon 9. Virginia 10. North Dakota 11. Florida 12. Oklahoma 13. Iowa 14. … Continue reading

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Saving ocean fisheries with property rights — [VIDEO]

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Steve Jobs at Apple’s WWDC 2011 — [VIDEO]

WWDC 2011 Keynote Roundup. The full video is now available on iTunes. Here are the ads for OS X Lion and iOS 5: For more, go to Apple Insider and Daring FireBall.

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Steve Blank: Of course, we are in a bubble, but it’s not a bad thing. — [VIDEO]

Steve Blank on the democratization of entrepreneurship: http://steveblank.com/

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Machine learning is using a computer to recognize patterns in data, to then make predictions about new data, based the patterned recognized or learned from prior chosen training dataset. — [LINK]

Discussion on machine learning used at Google.

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Let’s build a portable nuclear reactor, folks. {*} — [VIDEO]

A project to build “the world’s first superconducting Bussard reactor, a nuclear fusion technology that promises clean, cheap, abundant energy.” Bussard fusion reactor – Inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IEC): {*} Yet another stuff Mike Giberson won’t blog about.

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The Greeks sacrificed on the altar of the Euro? — [VIDEO]

The debate rages on in Europe…

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The hotel maids are leading the revolt against the world oligarchy. — [VIDEO]

Non-embeddable video here.

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Nuclear energy is finished. Done. — [VIDEO]

I don’t buy all his arguments, but watch the video.

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GroupOn is a lemon. — [LINKS]

I blogged negatively on GroupOn some time ago. This morning, I noticed a bunch of damning reports on the Chicago-based startup. UPDATE: Fortune. + More.

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