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- Voting with your wallet for the world you want
- There’s More to Happiness Than GDP & There’s a New Report to Prove It
- Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords
- Slow Advertising – pureland
- Bless the toolmakers – Snarkmarket
- Living Beyond Limits – Amy Purdy TEDx
- Libraries: Where It All Went Wrong – Nat Torkington
- Surgeon Uses 3D Printer To Make Models Of Bone – plus Open Source Software use
- The Myth of Shareholder Capitalism – Harvard Business Review
- Start-ups and Safety Nets
- Rolf Pfotenhauer: When the Age mentions "job seekers" I assume that they are not employees yet--is that right? If that is the case ...
- Jiri Baum: Might be OK if the correct answer is "no" and it's a trick question... otherwise I'm sure it falls dangerously ...
- Rolf Pfotenhauer: Steve you make an interesting point with the statement "...macro-economic impact would be in the West of losing so many ...
- arjen: Also see http://gigaom.com/2011/10/10/clay-christensen-on-steve-jobs-the-trouble-with-venture-capital/ (chat Om Malik of GigaOm had with prof. Clayton Christensen, author of “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and other ...
- Sean Campbell: Pirates of Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs was the art designer of the tech industry and that together with his well known ...
- arjen: Australia's ABC Catalyst science program recently visited initiator Adrian Bowyer in Bath (UK) to see and talk about RepRap: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3323779.htm
- arjen: hi browser - yea they're obviously not identical. However... does it matter? The curves/edges from the Stratasys appear rougher, which is ...
- browser: they are not printed from the same stl
- Arjen Lentz: See also http://www.openscad.org/ (for the parametric design language with instant visualisation), and http://www.thingiverse.com/ for freely available object designs.
- arjen: Interesting observation, Jiří. Yes and no. An e-book reader has another specific task, and with its eInk screen it's ideally suited ...
- Jiří Baum: Portability, battery life, simplicity... you're looking at an e-book reader.
- Stuart McMillen: Personally I like the first one better!
- Robert Ellen: On my quick reading I don't see any reason a B Corporation couldn't be an Upstarta in terms of violating ...
- Steve Withers: I worked at AT&T in Asia / Pacific between 1999 and 2004. During those 5 years I saw the plans ...
- arjen: Some acquired wisdom from a CEO about this topic: http://www.fastcompany.com/1772484/want-to-keep-your-best-employees-its-not-about-the-money
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