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by fspeech 13y ago
You can retake exams in China, but they are offered only once a year.
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by fspeech 13y ago
A warrant may never even be issued, since if he is arrested Hongkong police will be duty bound to turn over anything of national security interest to Beijing. Yeah it is a pretty sharp move.
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by fspeech 13y ago
You wrote amazingly well. Should be a great asset in addition to your hacking skills.
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by fspeech 13y ago
No. Courts don't wait for the PTO.
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by fspeech 14y ago
Legally you can sue the Chinese government in a Chinese court, if you can find a Chinese statute that supports your case.
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by fspeech 14y ago
It is unlikely that you can sue a sovereign in court. You can sue individuals and corporations.
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by fspeech 14y ago
Sour grapes?
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by fspeech 14y ago
Some thoughts on the efficiency and economics of Chinese wind power: Reported grid consumption of wind generated power was 100Twh or 100Gkwh. At the end of 2011 installed capacity (grid-connected) was about 47GW, which should have grown to
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by fspeech 14y ago
I mostly agree with what you are saying. The reason we are having a discussion here is that there are at least two ways to look at the fact that Apple enjoys both mass volume and high margin: 1. Apple has an amazing business. 2. Despite 1 i
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by fspeech 14y ago
You are right about the ecosystem but that is not how Apple makes so much money. iPod and app/music sales are minor portions of Apple valuation. The main profit center is driven by high iPhone margins, which are carrier subsidized so that p
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by fspeech 14y ago
My 12 year old (going on 13) also started with Mindstorm. Then we dabbled in MIT battlecode (Java). I taught him some Python and he did Udacity Python intro class on his own. Then he discovered Ogre (C++) and has been obsessed with it ever
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by fspeech 14y ago
Amazon can't grow 5x without taking share from WMT. That should explain part of the valuation gap.
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by fspeech 14y ago
"Wall Street" values companies by projecting future cash flows discounted back to the present. Note AAPL is only making that much per Q for the second time in its history. In 2011 it made only 60% of what it makes now. In 2010 30%. If someo
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by fspeech 14y ago
I had these in a spreadsheet a couple of years ago when I was studying retailers. I think I got the data from Yahoo Finance like this: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN+Income+Statement&an... which breaks out Cost of Revenue and SG
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by fspeech 14y ago
No Amazon does not have a cost advantage over Costco. It is operational cost is FAR higher than Costco: 18% vs 10%. It is easy to see why. Costco thrives on high volume/low count of SKU and customers pay for delivery themselves. Costco's gr
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by fspeech 14y ago
I don't know what interest the general public have in historical docket filings but I do know that Pacer is very useful in following ongoing cases. Check out groklaw.net where significant IPR cases are followed and the owner/blogger often h
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by fspeech 14y ago
Shannon didn't stand on the shoulders of Gödel.
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by fspeech 14y ago
It's doable but you need investment skills. 5% after inflation is likely pie in sky for most people. You need a lot more nest egg in the current low interest rate environment. Also at 35 you will still need money to put children through col
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by fspeech 14y ago
"The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges." Hopefully Prof. Abelson's investigation starts with MIT's missi
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MIT's Mission Statement(web.mit.edu)
7 points by fspeech 14y ago|1 comments