February 2012
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“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But...”
– Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
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Stanford Startups Focus on Health Care - Health... →
futuramb:
Of the nine startups that demoed, five companies aim to tackle problems in health care ― from ensuring that instant messages in the hospital are securely transferred, to making health care costs more transparent.
It becomes more and more clear that the wave of entrepreneurial innovation have come to health care. The main problem now is the traditional perception of health care,...
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Watchfabric 62 by DJ Sneak. IM-PA-GA-BLE!!!!
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myNoSQL: Hypertable Revival. Still the wrong... →
nosql:
After a very long silence (my last post about Hypertable dates back in Oct. 2010: NoSQL database architectures and Hypertable), there seems to be a bit of revival in the Hypertable space:
there are new packages of (commercial) services (PR announcement): Uptime support subscription
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January 2012
54 posts
Hips don't lie (now with Facebook updates) →
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Six reasons why taxi drivers (and other startups)... →
Android Keeps On "Winning" →
parislemon:
AT&T says that 7.6 million iPhones were activated last quarter, and 9.4 million smartphones overall were sold. Impressive numbers, but be careful.
As Eric Slivka of MacRumor notes, this doesn’t necessarily mean that 7.6 million of the 9.4 million smartphones sold were iPhones because “activated” can include older devices given away or sold through a third-party.
Still, AT&T...
Sobre cultura y financiación →
Leía esta entrevista con el director del Festival de Cine de Rotterdam -Rutger Wolfson- en la web del IFFR. Me ha gustado esto: ”About thirty percent of our funding comes from the state”. Me vienen a la cabeza varios países en los que eso es imposible y luego pasan cosas que a nadie le gustan.
How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the... →
parislemon:
Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman of Freakonomics discuss the claims that piracy leads to $250 billion a year in loses and 750,000 American jobs lost:
The good news is that the numbers are wrong — as this post by the Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez explains. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures “cannot be substantiated or traced...
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Prejudice Is A Basic Human Need →
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Prejudice is just bigotry that arises from flawed ideology, right? Not so, say the authors of a new paper.
They contend prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need and it is associated with a particular way of thinking. People who aren’t comfortable with ambiguity and want to make quick and firm decisions are also prone to making generalizations about others. People who are...
Amores de verano :p →
Productivity Papers: Work Like an Expert, Become... →
Google will alter its home page as part of protest... →