• Survey of consumer media piracy
  people just want things for free, they're not out to get the movie industry by pirating. concern about viruses. don't care about physical DVD, prefer streaming to downloading
• Most venture capital funds lose money - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog
  Cambridge reports that 10-year returns fell from a miserable -4.2% to a downright horrid -4.64% over the relevant period. Five-year returns fell from 4.3% to 4.25%.
• Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes | The Review of Economic Studies
  we exploit variation in the living conditions experienced by Yemenite children after being airlifted to Israel in 1949. We find that children who were placed in a more modern environment (i.e. with better sanitary and infrastructure conditions) were more likely to obtain higher education, marry at an older age, have fewer children, and work at age 55. They were also more likely to be assimilated into Israeli society, to be less religious, and have more worldly tastes in music and food. However, these effects are found mainly for women, and not for men. We also find an effect on the next generation – children who lived in a better environment grew up to have children with more education.
• Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
  Really interesting. Don't use unvetted third party software, definitely don't use any short passwords, be sure to update your software to patch security vulnerabilities.

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