Hackingbear writes "The national Debt Counter, erected in 1989 when the US debt was 'merely' a
tiny $2.7 trillion, has been moving so much that it of late ran out of digits to display the
ballooning figure: $10,150,603,734,720, or roughly $10.2 trillion, ...
(more)BartlebyScrivener writes "A New York Times Op-Ed quoting Freeman and George Dyson wonders if
Wall Street geeks and 'quants' outsmarted themselves with clone algorithms to create the
current commercial debacle: 'Somehow the genius quants — the best ...
(more)Uctpjac writes "Mark Surman, Shuttleworth substructure fellow, writes that open source is the
answer to philanthropy's $55 trillion question: how to spend the money expected to flow into
foundations over the next 25 years. While others have lashed out ...
(more)Stanislav_J writes "All you wealthy Slashdotters better start making alternate arrangements for
stashing your millions. Switzerland's storied role as discreet banker to the world's
tax-avoiding wealthy is under threat like never before, and this time ...
(more)An anonymous reader writes "Using data from recent comet-probing space missions, British
scientists are reporting today that the odds of life starting on Earth rather than inside a
comet are one trillion trillion (10 to the power of 24) to one against. ...
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