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  1. A significant portion of the internet was funded via advertising revenue. Users would get free content, entertainment, etc in exchange for giving up some of their attention to advertisers/marketers. It seems the success…

  2. Many (most?) companies secure databases using some combination of password keys or limiting the db from being publicly accessible on the internet. But if an engineer with credentials were to get phished, or were…

  3. There seem to be a lot of content with hindsight bias asserting that it was obviously fraud. But I can't find any content making a strong case that they were using customer funds to trade prior to the public meltdown in…

  4. The end of an era in Japan (globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)
  5. I've got an idea for an app that could provide value to the user but would require tracking their browsing history. How do I do this without being a douche?

  6. Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
  7. It seems that when a well known company is bought ought in the tech space reporters very often find out the purchase price. Both the purchaser and the company getting acquired publicly state that they won't disclose the…

  8. In light of recent news of Schmidt's departure, I did some wikipediaing of his bio, but there wasn't anything in his track record that made it seem immediately obvious that he should lead the biggest tech company…

  9. I occasionally use open source software for my projects, and they usually come with some sort of licensing conditions (GPL, LGPL, MIT, etc). To be honest, I never read the docs and I'm not really sure what the…

  10. I'm sure this has been implemented in some fashion, but I'd like to see more sites that have a large amount of browsable content give users the option to auto-hide what they've already seen. At least three times this…