Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Marc Andreessen Speaks: "Flying cars are closer than you think"

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And speaks, and speaks... You know how he is. From the Verge, Nov. 21: M arc Andreessen may be the most dedicated optimist in Silicon ...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Hackers Crack Liechtenstein Banks, Demand Ramsoms"

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This will get a few pulses racing. From The Register: Tiny country creates yuuge problems as crims threaten to expose 'tax evasion...

Uber-for-Laundry Is Dead; Long Live Uber-for-Laundry

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A few weeks ago I mentioned that one of the leaders of the California secession movement was a fairly successful VC who had some middle-rou...

"Japan Is Aggressively Buying Up Oil And Gas Around The World"

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From OilPrice: This coming year could be a surprisingly exciting time for oil and gas developers. Yes, energy prices are depressed righ...

Apparently Jill Stein Missed The Deadline For The Easiest Pennsylvania Recount Path

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Of course she did. Otherwise it wouldn't be 2016 Not that it was going to be easy for her but now she has to go to court and convince ...

"Consumer Reports calls Tesla Model X ‘flawed’ but do they even matter?" (TSLA)

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The stock is higher by $1.10 at $197.75. First up, Teslarati: Consumer Reports finds the Model X more showboat than functional calling it...

"International Criminal Court to Prosecute Business and Human Rights"

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From Lexology via Farmlandgrab: International Criminal Court to prosecute business and human rights Herbert Smith Freehills LLP Lex...

"China’s Ball of Money Is Rolling Back to Commoditie"

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From Bloomberg: Hot money has come full circle  In China, money flow is tightly controlled and capital markets are relatively underdeve...

Ag Equities: "Enough Fawning Over Deere" (DE)

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Here's the last nine month's price action via FinViz ; Friday's close: $103.92 +1.75 From Bloomberg Gadfly: Deere & ...

Hans-Werner Sinn: "Europe’s Secret Bailout"

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From Project Syndicate: MUNICH – While the world worries about Donald Trump, Brexit, and the flow of refugees from Syria and other war-...

Questions America Wants Answered: Jack and Jill Edition

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From xkcd : The very earnest folks at Explain xkcd haven't finished today's wiki yet.

"North Sea Oil Might Not Be Dead Yet"

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From the American Interest: Here’s some much-needed good news for the UK’s energy interests: oil companies operating in the North Sea are ...

Currencies: "Corrective Forces Seen in Asia, Subside in Europe"

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The euro is at 106.31, the dollar index at 101.23, both recovering somewhat. From Marc to Market: As soon as markets opened in Asia, the...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

"If we find ET, don’t talk to it, says the man who wants to find ET"

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Well duh, even yours truly, stuck here (along with you and everyone else) "In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, Of a gala...

"The automation of creativity: scary but inevitable"

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First they came for the journalists and I did not speak out- Because I was not a journalist. Then they came for the ad agency creatives ...

Pizza by Drone? That's So Last Month: Domino's Is Training Trackable Delivery Reindeer

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From Mashable: Domino's Japan is training reindeer to deliver holiday pizza. Yes, really Of all the U.S. traditions Japan has a...

"The game isn’t to build anything that might last, but to secure just enough money to land unharmed when the crash finally happens"

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From the Atlantic, Nov. 22: Watching the World Rot at Europe's Largest Tech Conference Notes from a writer’s visit to Web Summit We...

Fed Gov Lael Brainard: "The 'Gig' Economy: Implications of the Growth of Contingent Work"

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From the Federal Reserve Board: Speech Other Formats 84 KB PDF   Governor Lael Brainard At "Evolution of Work,...

"Would You Pay $21.4 Million for a Giant Artwork Made for East German Secret Police?"

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Maybe. If you were this lady: Here's the headline story from artnet: A German art historian has discovered a huge work in st...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Computers: "Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay"

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Digg is letting their computer geeks/gurus choose today's content and this was one of their picks. SHHHHH…..THE DIGG EDITORS ARE ...