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JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness
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JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps
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The last word on Lily Allen and her anti-filesharing campaign
Honestly, the viral existence of this, the brilliance of it, the effort put in to write and perform it, the humour, the sentiments expressed...
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Keynes, Explained Briefly
If you read the economic textbooks, you’ll find that the job market is a market like any other. There’s supply (workers) and demand (employers). And the incredible power of market competition pushes the price (wages) to where those two meet. Thus massive unemployment is about as likely as huge unsold piles of wheat…
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Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking
Seth Godin has ginormous balls. There, I said it. This morning, Seth used his much respected blog to reveal the…
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If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw
A man accused of a crime is brought into a police interrogation room and sits down at an empty table. There’s no polygraph equipment in sight, and the typical two-cop questioning team isn’t in the…
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The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality
My fearless readers are, no doubt, already familiar with the fact that I'm an American born and bred, but transplanted here to blighty to fa...
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The Next Generation Bends Over
Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off. Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint i…
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How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital
Security Privacy Surveillance "Sarah Cortes"
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Dmitry Medvedev declares official holiday in Russia: Programmer's Day
Russia's President Medvedev has decreed a new holiday for the country: Президент России Дмитрий Медведев своим указом установил профессиона...
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"Hello John. It's Gordon Brown"
Last night the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a long statement about my Alan Turing petition that included a clear apology for...
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Nathan Myhrvold’s Evil Genius
Last year I wrote that Intellectual Ventures is a kind of reductio ad absurdum of our flawed patent system. It’s a firm that literally does nothing useful, its only business is the acquisition and licensing of patents. Not only does it have no intention of commercializing the technologies it “invents,” its business…
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