“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.” – John Maynard Keynes
In album The Economy (1 photo)
The truth of Capitalism
Month: April 2012
“Dentist pulled out ALL boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her, and new girlfriend…
"Dentist pulled out ALL boyfriend's teeth after he dumped her, and new girlfriend leaves him because of his empty mouth."
This is the typical headline of you-can't-be-serious, right-wing raciness British tabloid Daily Mail.
IN JANUARY the New York Times lost its top spot in comScore’s ranking of the world’s biggest newspaper websites to Britain’s Daily Mail.
New York Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, and global news outlets: BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera, as well as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and indeed The Economist are in the battle to be biggest reflects a growing phenomenon: national news publications going global.
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IN JANUARY the New York Times lost its top spot in comScore’s ranking of the world’s biggest newspaper websites to Britain’s Daily Mail.
Fact fo the day – “Conservative MPs used to be taller than their Labour counterparts….
Fact fo the day– “Conservative MPs used to be taller than their Labour counterparts. That’s why in UK upper class Tories always look down working class dominated in Labour party.”
It’s not every day that someone writes down an equation that ends up changing…
It’s not every day that someone writes down an equation that ends up changing the world. But it does happen sometimes, and the world doesn’t always change for the better. It has been argued that one formula known as Black-Scholes, along with its descendants, helped to blow up the financial world.
“By 2007 the trade in derivatives worldwide was one quadrillion (thousand million million) US dollars – this is 10 times the total production of goods on the planet over its entire history.”
After Black-Scholes it was the computer that said yes, or no.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes
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One maths formula and the financial crash
It’s not every day that an equation changes the world, but one made modern options trading possible – and arguably caused the financial crash.
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Gallery – Funny!
One Earth, One Home – A Cartography of the Anthropocene
Read more: http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/
In album The Anthropocene (23 photos)
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.
Wake Up
A black bus with "Wake Up" written on the side pulled up and out poured a group of black-clad protesters with signs which read, "Wake Up." The protesters proceeded to stand in front of the Apple store in Sydney CBD and shout "wake up!"
Samsung is believed to be the mastermind and "dirty hands" behind the campaign – a local activation by tongue for the global launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 smart phone.
Pump up your mouth water before you can see the real product. Brilliant!
Read more: http://mumbrella.com.au/samsung-galaxy-launch-believed-to-be-behind-wake-up-teaser-campaign-87691
A black bus with "Wak Up" written on the side pulled up and out poured a group of black-clad protesters with signs which read, "Wake Up." The protesters proceeded to stand in front of the Apple store and shout "wake up!"
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Exciting times: They may be more than 9,000 miles apart but the communities of Dull…
Exciting times: They may be more than 9,000 miles apart but the communities of Dull and Boring are set to become close friends. The town of Boring in Oregon, U.S. and the village of Dull in Scotland have forged a common bond over the uninspiring names of the settlements. The town of Boring is too big to formally twin with Dull in Scotland but Dull could become a sister community of Boring.
New sign could read 'Welcome to Dull, sister community of Boring'
In album Hello World (1 photo)
Particularly in server environments, where scalability is as important as raw performance,…
Particularly in server environments, where scalability is as important as raw performance, platforms matter.
In the scalability battlefield, I couldn't see any other language than Java as the most accepted, most adapted, most supported dominating programming language. Not C#, not Scala, not Ruby can get even closer in next 5 years or more.
Yammer switched to Java when Scala couldn't meet its needs. Twitter switched from Ruby to Scala before also settling on Java. Reddit rewrote its code in Python. Yahoo Store migrated to C++ and Perl …
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Software devs: do read "7 programming myths".
Sadly I know quite a few devs who would argue in favour of the myths…
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7 programming myths — busted!
The tools are sharper, but software development remains rife with misconceptions about productivity, code efficiency, offshoring, and more.
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