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by byw 16y ago
I wonder if it has more to do with culture. According to Forbes, about half of all female billionaires are from China. http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/22/billionaire-women-entrepren...
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by byw 16y ago
The turning/signaling will follow that of BRTs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit Basically the car traffic will be signalled to stop, giving the bus priority.
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by byw 16y ago
>Are those really busses or are they trains? According to the video it's a hybrid. When there's no rails you need to paint special lanes, and the lane-assist system will keep the vehicle on track. From the operator's point of view it'
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by byw 16y ago
Probably stock models that came with the animation software.
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by byw 16y ago
"It also encourages huge risk taking in mortgages, which recently has seen home prices go up to 30X average income." I don't know if the government encourages it, but recently they "banned" third mortgages to cool the market down. House-fl
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by byw 16y ago
I can see how it could put the drinker in a vulnerable position. Though what's interesting is when I am around drunk people, my own inhibition naturally drops even without drinking.
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by byw 16y ago
Just curious, is this true mostly in a certain region or all over the world? Also, what kind of price different should I be expecting between the dorm and the private room?
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by byw 16y ago
For me, a big part of it isn't so much learning the rules, but unlearning the non-rules. In hindsight, a lot of the rules really aren't that complex, and can be easily picked up through observation. The problem is that some people have ove
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by byw 16y ago
Didn't an Apple employee a while ago say the company's design process consists of making 10 prototypes while only 1 goes into production?
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by byw 16y ago
Mostly for convenience I think. There's also the working-class/unpretentious image, and many people dig that. You will find many Chinese government officials drinking from glass jars in public appearances. They probably have expensive re
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by byw 16y ago
Per capita GDP is deceiving, because the wealth gap between the urban middle class and rural population is huge. For example, Guangzhou, a metropolitan city, has a per capita GDP of $23,232, about the same as Portugal, yet the country as a
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by byw 16y ago
My experience with meditation is that immediately after a long sitting, my awareness of the various "mental events" bump up an order of magnitude. I was indeed seeing the subtle fluctuation of emotions in myself and my family that I didn't
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by byw 16y ago
Looks/works great, though more info or a link to the artist's website would be nice. edit: oh, and when I bookmark it, I have to manually delete the song name from the title.
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by byw 16y ago
Not to mention he posted under different names but the same skype id: http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/7003 http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/6958
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by byw 16y ago
Every morning I habitually turn on the radio, which is tuned to white noise to drown out the streets.
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by byw 16y ago
I wonder how many homes actually have phone lines.
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The Genius of Design (BBC documentary on design)(vimeo.com)
8 points by byw 16y ago|0 comments
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by byw 16y ago
I think a major hurdle is that beyond a certain income level, people don't want to be seen as stingy, and refilling/buying bulk is generally associated frugality more than altruism. In order to reach more people in developed countries you n
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by byw 16y ago
I wonder if Rick Hickey would've used Parrot VM if he started Clojure today. Some of the limitations of Clojure like the lack of TCO and continuation were due to the JVM. Parrot VM has these features. You also get to access libraries impl
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by byw 16y ago
I think it's hard to top VW in this department :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GuBdvA7Qus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOW9fLT9eY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvARfHHI4k
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Prisoner's dilemma - SMBC Comic(smbc-comics.com)
3 points by byw 16y ago|0 comments