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• The Use of SpaceX Hardware to Accomplish Near-Term Human Mars Mission - The Mars Society
  An International grassroots non-profit Humans to Mars organization.
  > Human mission to Mars and back for $500m-ish, this decade. Believe it.
• Etymotic Research, Inc. - Electronic BlastPLG™ Earplugs
  Etymotic Research, Inc. is the world leader of In-The-Ear Technology and Hearing Instrumentation
  > Awesome
• Google should pull an Android on Facebook « Startup Boy
  Facebook, Twitter, iOS, SMS, etc. while beautiful and elegant, forget at their peril that there was a time when AOL, Compuserve, WAP, and other walled gardens were beautiful and elegant too.
  > Interesting stuff from Naval Ravikant
• Skype: See no vesting, hear no vesting - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet
  Last week, Skype took heat for firing three executives just weeks before the companys $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to close. That was bad, albeit more optical than unethical. What we learned today, however, might have crossed that line. Yee Lee, a former Skype employee, charged the company and ...
  > This is outrageous. I can't believe that this type of behavior pays off. Certainly recollection of this story would make me very wary dealing with Silver Lake.
• So, That’s the End of Bitcoin Then - Tim Worstall - It's All Trivial Or Obvious Except - Forbes
  Bitcoin allows for triple entry bookkeeping.
  > Well thank god for that.
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