The Weekend Bravely (#12)
Theranos, a disappearing coast, and Netflix under the microscope.
The Weekend Bravely is a (mostly) weekly round-up of stories you probably missed, but shouldn’t.
Excuse me, what? Apparently, a real company bought the patents of a fake company and has sued a real company for violating the patents of the phony company. You cannot make this stuff up. (via Twitter)
Puerto Rico dreaming. With extremely favorable tax laws, great weather, beautiful beaches, and friendly people, many entrepreneurs are discovering that you don’t have to leave the United States to have it all. But there are drawbacks. (via WSJ)
Andy Haslam / New York Times Large chunks of the UK coast are falling into the sea. Thousands of UK homeowners are faced with a no-win dilemma: leave their homes or invest, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of their own dollars (well, pounds) to save their homes. Britain could lose 82,000 homes to coastal erosion by 2105, but the government has already given up on thousands of structures. It’s the dreaded ‘No Active Intervention’ label. (via The New York Times)
Excuse me, what? (Part II). California Sen. Dianne Feinstein got testy with a reporter last week when she was pressed about her long absence from the Senate. “No, I’ve been here. I’ve been voting,” she insisted, to the absolute befuddlement of…everyone. Feinstein has missed more than 90 votes this year as she was home recovering from shingles. (via The Daily Beast)
Flop factory. Last week The Daily Beast took a long, hard look at Netflix’s hit record, and found that, contrary to what most people believe, it generates surprisingly few multi-season hits. It turns out, the networks churn out about as many hits in just one season as Netflix has in the past decade (‘House of Cards’ premiered in 2013). I’m still angry about 1899. (via The Daily Beast)
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