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I’ll go slow just in case anyone has problems following me on this story: San Francisco taxi cabs are already the most expensive per mile taxis in the country In 2002 they logged 1.2 million rides to SFO, in 2006 that number had dropped to 323,000 rides to the airport Cabbies blame BART’s extension to [...]
This sounds like a good thing. The Fraunhofer Institute must be one wickedly cool place to hang out. German researchers said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms. link via Samizdata
At first I thought this was a satire piece worth of publication in The Onion… Imagine my lack of surprise when I saw that this is simply a case of business as usual at Turtle Bay, after all it’s hard to argue with Zimbabwe’s credentials for leading a UN panel on the environment and economic [...]