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New Scientist - the capitalist network that runs the world
An analysis by complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology reveals that a “super-entity” of just 147 companies that controls 40% of the wealth among the world’s transnational corporations. And even worse is how tightly integrated these companies are…large pieces tightly coupled is a recipe for economic disaster.
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”In ’79, when Joan, my fiancee and I were on a holiday in the British Virgin Islands, we were trying to catch a flight to Puerto Rico; but the local Puerto Rican scheduled flight was cancelled. The airport terminal was full of stranded passengers. I made a few calls to charter companies and agreed to charter a plane for $2000 to Puerto Rico. Cheekily leaving out Joan’s and my name, I divided the price by the remaining number of passengers, borrowed a blackboard and wrote: VIRGIN AIRWAYS: $39 for a single flight to Puerto Rico. I walked around the airport terminal and soon filled every seat on the charter plane. As we landed at Puerto Rico, a passenger turned to me and said: “Virgin Airways isn’t too bad – smarten up the services a little and you could be in business.
Richard Branson at the 4th Madhavrao Scindia Memorial Lecture
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Write to file without correct permission
Every stupid time I edit a file without being root. Fixed!
:w !sudo tee %
You have to :w! again after that.
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One month on the iOS App Store
We released our first iPhone app early in December. It’s...
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I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode
On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty...
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