Mindblown: a blog about investment
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What is race?
Should the affirmative action be banned? How can we help each and every child, from any group, to have an equal chance of being competitive? One thing is for sure, affirmative action can help politicians earn quick & easy political scores and destroy some other politicians. Recently the California Senate Constitutional Amendment No.5 (SCA-5) was…
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10 Ways To Open A Wine Bottle
10 Ways To Open A Wine Bottle If you don’t have a corkscrew, there are still many possible different ways to open a wine bottle. I classify various methods into 3 categories. Which one of the 10 ways is easier, safer & available? To save you the time, I review 10 different ways to open…
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Google Voice Shutdown 3rd Party VoIP Interface
Google Voice Shutdown 3rd Party VoIP Interface Google Voice is going to shutdown the XMPP VoIP interface for 3rd party products such as ATA (for example Obihai device) or GrooVeIP apps. This will happen after May 15, 2014. So at minimum you need to do something about it because after that date those 3rd party…
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California Minimum Business Fees and First Year Exemption
The question is: do you have to pay any California Business License fees? If you searched the ca.gov site, and you may find the first year exemption, http://www.taxes.ca.gov/estpaybus.shtml it says: “Note: As of January 1, 2000, newly incorporated or qualified corporations are exempt from the minimum franchise tax for their first year of business.” So…
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Amazon Web Service, Part 1 Beanstalk
What is cloud services? What is horizontal scaling? I will use an example of porting a website onto Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) to explain various basic services. We use Beanstalk as an example because Beanstalk is easy to setup in the beginning. However Beanstalk is not as flexible, so if you are more serious on…
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