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by ippisl 15y ago
I think the more common use case would be getting face copyright from someone beautifull , and building it to stardom. I think if a major studio would want to build stars that way , it won't take them long.max a few years. so there won't be
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by ippisl 15y ago
It could also let movie producers get rid of the high salaries paid for popular movie stars.
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The best VC pitches(quora.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
What about google+ hangouts ? It's new , it's fun, and maybe even radical (may make video chat popular). It could easily be the new social: With it's currently addictive quality , plus more video content , plus social games. But it has a fe
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A Switch From Coal To Natural Gas Won't Help The Climate: Study(fastcompany.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
The after effects would have happened anyway. If you look at countries that don't have a Wal-Mart , you see the same effects of imported Chinese goods, lack of unions, and "death" to main street. At least Wal-Mart passed a good chunk of the
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by ippisl 15y ago
The % of US wages doesn't make sense. many manufacturing workers in the US earn minimum wage , which is between $5.15-$8.5 per hour. So the figure should be 15%-20% of US wages.
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by ippisl 15y ago
Without a union , workers has almost no power in today's market.
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by ippisl 15y ago
One thing that would really help such scenario become an affordable reality, is seeing the cost of living rapidly decline for people living with low wages. For them , the major living expenses are housing, healthcare, food and energy, and a
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by ippisl 15y ago
Without some regulation , why would the work week become shorter ? for many people , working a 40 hour work week barely covers their expenses. why would they want to work less ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think the author tries hard to ignore the role of technology. 1. It's clear that most books will be ebooks , especially for people interested in book communities. 2. It's pretty easy for anybody with an interest to form an offline(or offl
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by ippisl 15y ago
That prediction by clarke means that today million of relatively poor indians work for companies in the U.S. and make better living.
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by ippisl 15y ago
see: http://www.ideorg.org/OurTechnologies/DripIrrigation.aspx look at "our technologies" for similar stuff.
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by ippisl 15y ago
Even in africa , for places where bandwidth is expensive, once the community got computers, or android phones, it's pretty easy and cheap to distribute some content from khan or TED,without needing internet access for each person.
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by ippisl 15y ago
It depends if the exponential improvement in storage or chip technologies will stop before it's possible. If we look at history , there were many exponentially improving technologies(for example speed of flight or height of buildings). But
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by ippisl 15y ago
Parsec looks pretty similar to python's pyparsing or Pysec.Pysec is a "Monadic Combinatoric Parsing" library in python, so i think you could do monads in python.
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by ippisl 15y ago
Codecademy and similar stuff are great for strong programmers. Why? Strong programmers doesn't compete with weak programmers. The stuff they can do, and the speed they work is at a totally different level. see the 1000X productivity debate.
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think that today, it's hard to learn from history about such things because of some disruptive changes that happen to war and politics. 1. Democracy According to the democratic peace theory[1], two stable , long term democracies, rarely o
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by ippisl 15y ago
The green revolution , in agriculture , which saved an estimated billion files , was made by a non-profit. Paul pollack , and his non-profit IDE, got 20 million people out poverty by offering radically affordable irrigation technology and b
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by ippisl 15y ago
Could you please share a link to the article ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
As a support for your claim that new classes of jobs are not created , see pages 67-68 in http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/LIGHTSTUNNEL.PDF There's a table called "U.S. Occupations with at least one million workers (2006)". Every type
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by ippisl 15y ago
openBTS doesn't seem to succeed commercially. In the only case in it was deployed fr long term use , at the island of niue in 2010 , it was later replace by a commercial base-station vendor called lemko.
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by ippisl 15y ago
From a 2008 European study of 18000 people: "people that are connected to the Internet are considerably more satisfied with their lives.” http://www.virtualhappiness.org/2008/02/wellbeing-and-intern...
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by ippisl 15y ago
There are disruptive innovations in healthcare. You can use medical tourism and save a lot. There are other. But disruptive innovations are usually pretty slow. they take a decade or more. Just invest carefully.
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by ippisl 15y ago
In order to vary the discount without making customers angry you have to change the product , not only the price. For many products , that's pretty difficult to do.
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by ippisl 15y ago
Fulfilling psychological and social needs are a huge part of the consumer economy. bigger houses , branded cars and brands in general , going to pubs and restaurants and vacations , everything that has to do with design.And entertainment. a
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by ippisl 15y ago
Can you please link to the source ?
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Disruptive Innovation in Clinical Trials (lifescienceleader.com)
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What's a typical gross margin for apparel sold online?(quora.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
But most people choose fun and money over taking a boring job that makes the world better. It's just human nature. Why should investors behave differently ?

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