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by GabrielF00 14y ago
I looked at the Pottermore website, which the author seems to think is a model for disrupting Amazon. They don't seem to sell physical books, just eBooks and digital audio books. Fulfillment and distribution of physical items at a large sca
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by GabrielF00 14y ago
There's a lot here that reminds me of why I'm suspicious of the UN. At this conference it seems that many countries treated concepts like "democracy", "human rights" and "transparency", as a veneer, not as concepts that they actually believ
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by GabrielF00 14y ago
What was the advantage of using a 64-bit processor in a consumer electronics device like the N64? Presumably addressing more than 4GB of memory was not an issue back then.
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by GabrielF00 14y ago
MIT is the anti-Lake Wobegon. None of the children are above average.
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The Chinese education system unfortunately seems to promote dishonesty to children. Plagiarism is endemic and sometimes students are taught to plagiarize. There may be a decent reason - they think kids should model successful thinkers rathe
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by GabrielF00 14y ago
I suspect it was a massive workload that came with the benefit of working for something that you believe in and developing contacts at the highest levels. Political campaigns tend to work young people very hard for very little money with th
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by GabrielF00 14y ago
I don't see any material changes at Apple that can explain this stock slide. Some people are saying that Apple is releasing only small iterations on existing products rather than blockbuster new products, but for every brand new product App
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Tablets Improve Speed and Ease of Reading for People With Moderate Vision Loss(sciencedaily.com)
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I feel uncomfortable in the Apple Store because of the crowds and the noise and maybe a bit because of the sterility of the design, however, I feel the same way in most indoor shopping malls. In malls there's an added problem which is that
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by GabrielF00 14y ago
FWIW the same thing happened to Obama in 2008, at least in the key swing state of Virginia. I did some campaigning there for Obama the weekend before the election and the system that managed their get-out-the-vote efforts had crashed statew
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Me and My Censor: What it's like to tell the truth about today's China.(foreignpolicy.com)
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The difference I think is that in a sandbox game doing a handful of things every eight hours or so can feel fairly satisfying but in an adventure game there's a sort of story and you're interrupting it after you're just getting started.
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My grandfather was an aeronautical engineer who spent most of his career at one company - he joined early enough that he was friendly with the founder. That didn't stop them from laying him off right before he would have been able to collec
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The Boston office did the Adventure World game. I tried it out and found it pretty frustrating - you can only do a few things before you run out of energy and need to harrass your friends or wait 24 hours. It's not a mechanic that works wel
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by GabrielF00 14y ago
Ancestry.com is possible largely because of the Mormon church. There is a religious obligation in Mormonism to proxy baptize one's non-Mormon ancestors so they can get into heaven. To allow Mormons to identify these ancestors the LDS church
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Wikipedia did a project where students at Indian universities were assigned to expand and write Wikipedia articles in lieu of their normal coursework. Two universities were selected - College of Engineering, Pune and Symbiosis School of Eco