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- Steven Krivit continues to trash Andrea Rossi and his LENR technology. — [LINK]
- Interview with Adam Lashinsky — [VIDEO]
- Why some people are more innovative — [VIDEO]
- Forbes editor deciphers Steve Jobs’s Apple. — [VIDEO]
- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors — [VIDEO]
- The Tragedy of the Commons — [VIDEO]
- Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs — [VIDEO]
- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
Tag Archives: History
Cantor Fitzgerald, ten years after 9/11 — [VIDEO]
Cantor Fitzgerald, ten years after 9/11.
Posted in Business, Finance, History
Tagged 9/11, America, Cantor Fitzgerald, employees, Finance, History, Manhattan, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, terrorism, United States Of America, World Trade Center
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Debt = Slavery — [VIDEO]
World debt history, 13 minutes into:
Posted in Economics, History, Money, The Global Economy
Tagged civilizations, credit, credit money, creditors, David Graeber, debt, debt history, debtors, dollar, economic history, gold, History, Money, slavery, US dollar, virtual money, world debt history
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Terry Gilliam’s Lost in La Mancha — [VIDEO]
Lost in La Mancha @Wikipedia.
Posted in Films - Movies, Humor
Tagged film, films, History, Humor, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp, Keith Fulton y Louis Pepe, Lost in La Mancha, movie, movies, Phil Patterson, Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni
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Paul Allen on Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer during MicroSoft’s inception — [LINK]
Riveting. Paul Allen’s memoir (IDEA MAN) is out April 19, 2011.
Posted in Business, Business & Economic Models, Business Administration, History, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Bill Gates, Business, business startups, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, History, innovation, innovations, inventions, Microsoft, Paul Allen, sofware, startups, Steve Ballmer
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Niall Ferguson gives a historical perspective on the current financial crisis. — [VIDEO]
Fiscal Crises and Imperial Collapses: Historical Perspective on Current Predicaments. Presentation – PDF file. [Download this post to watch the video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.]
Posted in Economics, Finance, History, The Global Economy
Tagged economic crisis, economic history, financial crisis, History, Niall Ferguson, US economy, world economy
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J. Edgar Hoover asked the FBI to track Josephine Baker’s movements around the world because of a row she had in a NYC restaurant with a columnist who was Hoover’s best friend. – [VIDEO]
What a pig.
Posted in Ethics, History
Tagged FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, History, J. Edgar Hoover, Josephine Baker
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Mark Davies spills the beans on how BetFair became #1.
Mark Davies: [E]veryone did it a slightly different way. it wasn’t first-mover advantage at that point, because we weren’t first! But we were first to do it with a model that aggregated demand, whereas everyone else had a different model. … Continue reading
“They made a mistake haha. They asked me to make it for them.”
The bottom line: it is not the idea that is important; it is the execution.
Posted in Business, History
Tagged Business, business startups, execution, FaceBook, History, idea, innovation, intellectual property, invention, Mark Zuckerberg, startup, startups
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DOCUMENTED: How Mark Davies joined a small startup called BetFair —when it was just an Excel spreadsheet file
Read the whole thing, it is entertaining.