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Leftist Terrorism Zooms in Europe
Dismantling the social net: Spain, Greece and Italy reported a total of 40 attacks by left-wing and anarchist groups for 2009. This constitutes an increase of 43 % compared to 2008; the number of attacks more than doubled since 2007. … Continue reading
Netflix’s Excellent Vacation Policy
Fair point, said management. As the company explains in its “Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture”, a 128-slide PowerPoint presentation that has spread like samizdat literature on the internet: “We should focus on what people get done, not … Continue reading
Seaswarm: MIT’s Autonomous, Oil-Cleaning Swarm
Seaswarm. Unfortunately, this is priced at $20k a pop. I’d like to see the plans unleashed to the hacker community. (And watch the precipitous pricing drop thereafter.) -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Economic Hitmen Inside the Gates Foundation Invest in Monsanto
Bizarre sense of morality. holdings from $360,000 to ~$23 million. Monsanto’s track record with the third world is classic evil. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
On Google
On the one side, the Larry/Sergey Google that makes amazing cool things — the search engine, Gmail, Android. On the other, the Schmidt Google that, in its efforts to serve ads as efficiently as possible, no longer seems concerned with … Continue reading