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Can't disagree with you on the price...but, they offer a superior product for that price... They've been on the cutting edge for years...
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Agreed... Humans loves a narrative... Great storytellers often succeed financially when writers of interpretive fiction--literature--barely scrape by... Each type of author has a place...some readers want entertainment...other readers prefe
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Well written... From experience (not mine) too many people consider only one factor when making the majority of purchases with credit: Can I make the monthly payment...? If they can they plunge headlong... Of course just paying the monthly
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11y ago
You might try: Tiger Direct newegg If you want to get really serious check out: Falcon Northwest
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11y ago
From the website for the pi-TopCEED: >$134.99 with Raspberry pi...$99.99 without Raspberry pi.<<
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I followed the "order now" link: >>$134.99 with Raspberry pi...$99.99 without Raspberry pi...Choose from our green or grey colour options. You are pre-ordering one of the first batch of pi-topCEED, delivery will be in April
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11y ago
Many have said To Kill A Mockingbird made Harper Lee a "one hit wonder"...but, wow...the hit was a home run... Brilliant characterization--Scout, Jem, Dill, Atticus, Calpurnia, Boo Radley, the Ewells, Tom Robinson... The setting..
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11y ago
I'll share a technique I stumbled upon years ago that helps me tremendously whenever I feel stressed, e.g., to meet some gig deadline....no link, but it only takes a few minutes... Just sit and focus on letting your lower jaw hang open
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They're difficult to use for two reasons: 1} The ones being sold where I live have a release--a sliding thumb lever--that you have to slide and hold down to release fuel...it's part of the neck of the spout...this ties up one hand
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>>The best way to write will always depend on what the goals are, but in general the further away from the original thought you get, the more writing and other creative ideas tend to degrade.<< So very true... Open a vein...shar
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11y ago
This article is funny and spot on... My house is on 35 acres, which I maintain...at any given time I have around 20 gallons of gas in 5-gallon cans, and 10 gallons, or so, of diesel in my barn...fuel for the mower, Gator, tractor, garden ti
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11y ago
Agreed... The "broad health", security-wise, of the U.S. is best served by allowing end-to-end encryption...in other words, protection from external threats for the vast majority of civilian users--the "main body"... But
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11y ago
I think you make an excellent point... >>if Apple loses the kind of device you're talking about might be by extension criminalized depending on the breadth of the ruling - or explicitly criminalized by congress.<< I can eas
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11y ago
I believe you are correct: The legal doctrine of respondeat superior is recognized in both common law and civil law...it translates, from the Latin, as "let the master answer"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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11y ago
>>Also, part of the point of a Google style interview is to keep pushing you to the point where your ability fails, then push in another direction to the point your ability fails. That way, they get an idea of the dimensions of your s
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And it states: >>No. Google doesn’t assume ownership of any customer data in Google Apps for Education core services, and it says so in our contracts (under “Intellectual Property”).<<
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Interesting comment... Given the limits imposed by Job's comment, which parameters the construct, it may be that the set of "B Players" are (failed) A players, who've involuntarily been forced a step down the ladder, or,
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>>temperature anomalies above 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1951 to 1980 average in this region.<< >>impacts of Arctic warming include the melting of major Arctic glaciers and Greenland (contai
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I understand the technical issues, and understand the broader implications... But, one thing has been bugging me about this case and your comment that Apple questions the " lawfulness of this particular request " leads me to ask:
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11y ago
I think a niche certainly exists for your product... If you could manage to land an ad in AARP-The Magazine for instance, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at the response...that demographic is of an age where many common ailment
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Agreed...there is a difference...a whole new precedent may be set when all this is sorted...
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I think it's interesting to note that Apple has complied with requests from law enforcement in the past... Of the total number of requests, which Apple references here: http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-infor
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Inspiring story... This is an excellent example of a startup finding a niche, with the added bonus of providing a much-needed benefit to society... Win/Win...kudos to Neverware! Think I'll pull a couple of old Dell laptops out of
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They are not selling groceries... They are selling the convenience of having groceries delivered to your home... The two are entirely different, the margins, as well...
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They're not selling groceries... They're selling convenience... The margin on convenience is what matters...
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Wal Mart became a giant by operating on low margins...scaling, then using scale for purchasing leverage... I wouldn't assume that Google is paying the same price that ordinary customers are in the retail settings Google order fillers p
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So, maybe they're diversifying?...and maybe they're betting on being able to provide a more reliable service...? They certainly have a bit of capital to burn...
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From the article they're simply entering the "delivery" market...picking up items from retail stores and transporting them to willing buyers...obviously a markup is implied...the cost of convenience... There's no holding
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11y ago
Congrats on being a Quora Top Writer! I agree...the best ideas "come in on little cat feet"...
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>>Paul : It is actually a trick for interviews. If someone asks you a boring question, just answer the interesting one they might have asked, and nobody complains.<< That's classic... An example of how to actually live &quo
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