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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Using amazons for purchases would give users a discount off the regular purchase price, maybe 2 percent. The smart approach would be to pay sellers some portion of their sale price in amazons—maybe 10 percent initially—and the rest in dollars. Customers could convert U.S. That would give folks an incentive to use amazons.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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and relatively small price tag (just US $18,500!), Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar! The PiDP-8: A Miniaturized Minicomputer In 1965, the style was groovy, even when it came to minicomputers. with the original code!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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And, if you consider lifetime costs of owning an EV versus owning a traditional internal combustion car, even if the initial purchase price of the EV is much more than your combustion car and you have to replace a battery for $4,000 after 7-10 years, the EV still costs less to operate. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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