Thursday, August 10, 2017

Peeling Back The Big Apple's Skin

Financial forecasters are now weighing in on the cryptocurrency, trying to divine where bitcoin's price is headed, now that it sits at around $3,400, up from around $600 a year ago.
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The Case For $5,000 Bitcoin
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Financial forecasters are now weighing in on the cryptocurrency, trying to divine where bitcoin's price is headed, now that it sits at around $3,400, up from around $600 a year ago.
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Investors Poured Millions Into A Storage Network That Doesn't Exist
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Filecoin is expected to raise millions in an initial coin offering.
INCLUDING ITS WAREHOUSE WORKERS
The Tech Company That Pays For It's Workers' Weddings
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With Silicon Valley under fire for treating workers poorly, Boxed's founder says fair pay and benefits will persuade employees to stick around.
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Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
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Subterranean cartographers are bringing to light the dark, tangled truths buried under the streets.
NOT GELSEY KRAMMER
Martin Crane's Hideous Chair Was The True Star Of 'Frasier'
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Why is "Frasier" such a great comedy? Not because of barbed one-liners or high farce, but because it had a heart.
FOIALED AGAIN
The Greatest Mystery Finally Solved: Who Makes Trader Joe's Snacks?
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Revealing the chip-makers and cookie factories in disguise.
IT STOLE OUR HEARTS
WATCH: The Mona Lisa Isn't Famous Because It's A Great Painting
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Think of your favorite Renaissance-era painting. If it's the Mona Lisa, "Adam Ruins Everything" has some bad news for you.
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Watching A Kilometer Of Pipe Sliding Into Place All At Once Is Insanely Satisfying
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​How do you lay a kilometer-long PVC pipe? Well, first you dig the ditch, then you push the start of the pipe into the ditch, and the rest takes care of itself.
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Here's to an escalation towards... Friday.