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by brianchu 14y ago
The original (more detailed) article: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/november/healing-plastic-...
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Google Said to Face Ultimatum From FTC in Antitrust Talks(bloomberg.com)
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Startups, I want to challenge the concept of having a “Plan B”(bobbyonboard.com)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
Unless you want to get sued ( http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigaom... ), I would avoid doing this until the legal grey area surrounding non-cookie tracking is resolved. I suppose you might be able to get a user to "a
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by brianchu 14y ago
Yes and no. On one hand, management consultants are typically working with the executives of a company, and usually one of those executives will have been a former consultant (the executive boardrooms of companies are filled with them). Not
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The Power of Aspiration(teejm.com)
4 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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This Sick Lung-on-a-Chip May Help with Drug Testing(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by brianchu 14y ago
Again, the analogy is not quite accurate. I find that analogies are often poor justifications of arguments because of widely varying contexts. In Apple's case there are many other more plausible alternative explanations, such as Apple wanti
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Climate Predictions: Worst-Case May Be Most Accurate, Study Finds(news.nationalgeographic.com)
36 points by brianchu 14y ago|43 comments
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Really awesome. Although I suspect some people might take advantage of the ability to delete/move anything they want. What would be the solution to this?
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Do you know how the scholarship is income-dependent? Because, obviously, my parents could afford it (I'm on a gap year(s) out of high school), but I personally could not (working at a startup).
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Saying that the demographics of colleges/corporations don't match those of colleges directly is evidence of racism is a logical leap that is completely false. Right now colleges already practice affirmative action. Yet African Americans a
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by brianchu 14y ago
This is not a valid analogy. Causation is typically proved empirically. We have consistent (as in, 99.9999%) empirical evidence that if you "shoot a gun and the guy in front of [you] drops dead of a bullet wound," there is a causative rel
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by brianchu 14y ago
My takeaway was that simplicity = precision, not elimination.
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Simplicity(francispedraza.com)
77 points by brianchu 14y ago|19 comments
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Keep in mind, however, that we could not have expected Nate Silver's own model to predict 50/50 states. Given that Nate predicted that there was a 50.3% chance that Florida would go to Obama, the only difference between this being a story o
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Palo Alto's marijuana measure heads toward defeat (paloaltoonline.com)
14 points by brianchu 14y ago|5 comments
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And now we know why: Nate Silver correctly predicted every state in the presidential election (Electoral College). So much for the pundits who criticized him, Rasmussen's party ID results that supposedly showed Republicans with a commandi
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by brianchu 14y ago
I'd be wary of ignoring a C&D. There may be legal ramifications if you end up getting punished for infringement. I am not a lawyer. Please talk to a lawyer. Anyone on this board who is not a patent lawyer is talking out of their rea
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by brianchu 14y ago
Sadly, I don't have $3,900 to shell out. It would be wonderful if there was a similar workshop that was more openly accessible.
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All you need to know about setting expectations: underpromise and overdeliver.
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I'd agree that there is a large opportunity in direct-to-online distribution of original video content. But I think the article is somewhat overselling the content aspect. The article gives two examples of "hits" from Maker Studios: both ar
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by brianchu 14y ago
True. But those are fixed costs that can be spread out over millions of devices. Some estimate that 2 million iPad Mini's were sold this weekend ( http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233257/iPad_Mini_iPa... ). Given that a couple more m
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Low-End iPad mini Carries $188 Bill of Materials, Teardown Analysis Reveals(isuppli.com)
25 points by brianchu 14y ago|19 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
Right. Apologizing is not strictly necessary. But relationships matter; in the long run someone who is able to apologize and keep calm despite others' rude statements is going to be better off.
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I think both parties are at fault here. Ryan's first query was fine. It was a total mistake to 1) Send another message (please wait for more than a "few minutes" before getting frustrated and sending another message), and 2) Be completely r
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Hm... Is AppCode really that much better than Xcode?
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ForrestN is not (as I interpret) saying that nothing matters. Just that evaluating the "matter-ness" of something based on some objective like making a difference to humanity is baseless. If staying passive makes you happy, then take that
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The problem with using Lua is that you lose debugging/profiling support and incur performance overhead. The loss of the debugging support afforded to Objective-C code might be enough to eliminate any time saved. I do believe that Corona off
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I interpreted ForrestN's statement much differently: "it really, really doesn't matter what you accomplish." Given that emphasis, I don't think what ForrestN said is incompatible with your analogy. The point is that the heat death of the

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