Apr
26th
Thu
26th
| Blog: |
| In My Honest Opinon |
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| science, data, research |
Mining asteroids doesn't sound easy...
How do they plan to return mined materials back to earth? And assuming that they do find an asteroid made of gold/platinum (and successfully retrieve those metals) — won’t that just make the price of gold/platinum plummet once they try to sell it on Earth?
Apr
24th
Tue
24th
Google Drive launches!
Hmm. a measly 5GB of free storage? I was hoping google would make it a “5GB and counting” figure, so that it’s always increasing like Gmail storage… but I guess that would take away from the higher storage limits they’re trying to sell. (But they could’ve sold higher tiers that increased storage limits at a faster rate?)
Personalized medicine is in its infancy...
Measuring genes, proteins, metabolites in real time could be really useful for health diagnostics. Wondering when they’ll get some twins to participate in this kind of study…
Apr
23rd
Mon
23rd
Craigslist stuff I learned today…
Meet sellers in a bank (via Gizmodo) — seems like a good tip for fast/safe transactions.
CL is going to re-design its site?!!? — hmm. People are so used to the retro look — I hope they don’t totally get rid of the old look. (or maybe there will be no re-design at all.)
Apr
21st
Sat
21st
Matthew Lynn Made A Prediction in 2007 About The iPhone...
It’s hard to make predictions, and it’s pretty bad when yours is made so public when you turn out wrong.
Apr
20th
Fri
20th
Amazon Payments Behind Kickstarter
With Kickstarter getting all the popularity and attention for being a cool new way to create products/services, I think it’s interesting that Kickstarter relies on Amazon Payments — and it’s easy money for Amazon to just take a cut of Kickstarter’s innovations.
