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     57. Venmo

     58. Patreon

     59. Bitcoin

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     62. E-gold

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     67. Slice (app)

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     86. Skype

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     92. Twitter

     93. PageRank

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     102. Zero to One

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     107. Robert Browning

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     109. Lord Dunsany

     110. Jorge Luis Borges

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     113. Kinect

     114. Experience curve effects

     115. Palmer Luckey  :

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     116. Donald Michie

     117. Alfred North Whitehead

     118. Category:Robotics companies  :

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     119. Ecclesiastes  :

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     120. Yunmen Wenyan

     121. Nichinichi kore kōnichi  :

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     122. Blue Cliff Record  :

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     123. Doomsday argument

     124. Kennelly–Heaviside layer

     125. Value of information

     126. Edward Boyden

     127. Optogenetics

     128. Expansion microscopy

     129. Konrad Zuse  :

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     130. Piet Hein (scientist)  :

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     131. Gambler's ruin

     132. Kelly criterion

     133. Thompson sampling

     134. EToro  :

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     135. Particle filter

     136. Information cascade

     137. Guess 2⁄3 of the average  :

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     138. Ski rental problem

     139. PLATO (computer system)  :

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     140. Kary Mullis

     141. Heinrich Hörlein  :

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     142. Thomas Edison

     143. Salient (military)  :

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     144. Visceral leishmaniasis  :

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     145. Andreessen Horowitz

     146. Southwest Airlines  :

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     147. Herb Kelleher  :

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     148. Marc Andreessen

     149. Ben Horowitz

     150. Chris Dixon