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Brilliant “Traditional Marriage” video — must watch
Personally, I do not understand what business government has at all in my marriage, or anybody else’s. As somebody who comes from one country (Germany), lives in another (USA), and got married in a third (St. Lucia, in the Caribbean), I’ve been exposed directly to the different rules everybody has around marriage, and it’s a…
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-20 pounds through low-carb: this is too easy
Losing weight is supposed to be unpleasant, difficult, and in the long term, pretty much impossible unless you spent a lot of energy on being disciplined (and hungry). People even argue that the body is programmed to gain a couple of pounds a year under the best of circumstances. I’ve now found out this is…
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Tech Titans’ Next Targets: Telcos and Cars
Apple has over $200 billion in revenue, growing 25% a year. Where are the next $50 or $100 billion going to come from? Mobile phones: no, that market is close to saturation. Desktops and laptops? Stagnant. Watch? Certainly not. All of them have room to grow, but not by 10’s of billions of dollars every…
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And just like that, the first big thing broke (Europe)
61% No in Greece. That wasn’t supposed to happen. But it has, and now we are in uncharted territory. Some random observations: Syriza has just effectively won an election with 60%+ of the vote. The strategy of waiting for a different government going back to business as usual, as some in Europe have done, has…
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On the openness of #IoT or lack thereof
Me, to the developers of a very nice Bluetooth Smart sensor: I’m considering writing some code that can read the data from your SensorBugs. I don’t want to use your mobile apps or go through your cloud, as the code is supposed to run in close proximity to the sensors on a box I have…