History of GrubHub/Seamless/Aramark Acquisitions in Food 2.0 Economy
Food 2.0 in US is linked 1999 Seamless is founded by two hungry lawyers, fed up with using out-of-date paper menus to order food to their office 2004 Grubhub…
Amazon HQ2 Pulls out of Long Island City, New York.
A Governors Perspective: The city and state 'gave' Amazon nothing. Amazon was to build their headquarters with union jobs and pay the city and state $27 billion in revenues. "As…
A Listener’s Perspective to Education, Economy, and Opportunity in America.
Based off of the Overdensity Podcast Episode: Value of education and how its role may evolve in the US, which featured a discussion on the practicality a 4 year degree…
Transformer explosion at a Con Ed facility in Queens.
The transformer explosion in Astoria was... right outside my window. So bright I couldn’t look directly at it. pic.twitter.com/lsv5uHrENb— Nick Riccardo (@nickriccardo) December 28, 2018 Update to previous post: https://overdensity.com/2018/12/28/science/new-york-city-sky-lights-and-flickers-blue/…
New York City Sky Lights up Blue and Flickers
Like a scene out of a movie, the New York City sky turned blue and green. It first seemed like a reflection off of a glass window; however, when I…
Amazon HQ2 and Long Island City: A Match Made In Congestion
Amazon selects Long Island City, New York (in addition to Crystal City, Virgina) for its second headquarters location (HQ2). Preliminary targets aim at the creation of 25,000 jobs and initial…
Get Started with Python You Coding Newbie
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Start with this visual eye candy that walks the coding novice through the beginning steps, clear and succinct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYXdXT2l-Gg&index=2&list=PL-osiE80TeTskrapNbzXhwoFUiLCjGgY7&t=0s https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/6bxdut/python_for_beginners_complete_series/ When you get a good set up, and understand…
Kevin Durant and Will Smith Jump in On Venture Capital for StartUps
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Silicon Valley stalwart Andreessen Horowitz is launching a novel effort to boost diversity in technology: an exclusive new fund targeted at black celebrities, athletes and media figures. Basketball star Kevin…
Food in Your Mouth
Now what you gonna do, there's food in your mouth, and who can you chew, calling all my MCs and MDs, salt water in the mouth, boiling water from the…
Where to Find Legitimate Speed Test
Some searching brought across Reddit string with users citing various web applications find the answer of, "Legitimate Speed Test". Each link listed of several weaknesses of the site. The first…
Value of Education and How its Role May Evolve in the US
OverDensity covers relevant subjects, events, and information to facilitate awareness and collaboration across the galaxy. In Episode 3, we discuss the the practicality a 4 year degree in today's economy…
Why Microsoft Acquired GitHub
A story about getting developer talent and data... There was once a time when developers flocked to Microsoft... when Windows 98 was out. With 27,000,000 developers (will do a later…
Guide to Optimize Breath
Community Generated #1 https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantToLearn/comments/3fvhiw/iwtl_how_to_breathe_properly/ #2 https://www.reddit.com/r/Anxiety/comments/564pfk/do_those_breathing_exercises_actually_work/ #3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/2wisqy/breathing_techniques/ Books and Articles #4 https://www.energyarts.com/taoist-longevity-breathing #5 https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/withEachAndEveryBreath_v131019.pdf
Navigating OverDensity and Key Resources to Facilitate Active Learning
The purpose of OverDensity is to provide up-to-date information on things that matter and, to coordinate information sharing and ease of collaboration on initiatives; local and global. Providing the potential…
Memorial Weekend Get-Away
The lake was originally named the Andia-ta-roc-te by local Native Americans. James Fenimore Cooper in his narrative Last of the Mohicans called it the Horican, after a tribe which may…