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by jhou2 10y ago
Only a few months ago, shares were at $14 plus change. Not much hope of significant profit in the near future. Perhaps some Chinese investors flush with capital might entertain an offer. Tencent?
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by jhou2 10y ago
iirc, the "Save Dollhouse from Cancellation" campaign started before the first episode even aired. It still got cancelled.
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by jhou2 10y ago
I agree. The researchers are aware of the challenge. There is so much we don't know about the C4 pathway and then to somehow successfully merge parts of it into a C3 plant. It might be easier to develop a C4 plant that can thrive in
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by jhou2 10y ago
Of course. If in the experiment, they had simulated the effect of predators on the population and routinely culled the population to stay within some range, then probably the mice would have lived happily ever after generation after genera
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by jhou2 10y ago
My favorite line, "FOOF is Satan's kimchi."
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by jhou2 10y ago
I was surprised ARM hasn't been bought by a larger conglomerate yet. SoftBank is way ahead of the game.
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by jhou2 10y ago
The app isn't very good on Android either. But then it is supposedly version 0.29? The original Ingress app wasn't that stable either, but with all the interest and revenue generation, I imagine it won't be too long before
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by jhou2 10y ago
To some extent, I think this is what Brexit supporters want. With fewer jobs in London and rest of UK, and more border controls, the attraction of the UK for migrants decreases significantly. The ultra heated real estate market can finall
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by jhou2 10y ago
So the net "winner" for financial services might be Germany? If I were looking for a new financial head office, I would be inclined to locate it in the EU's largest and most stable economy, right?
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by jhou2 10y ago
In this simplified system, the number of these cell wall genes in the genome is proportional to the quantity of the cell wall proteins produced. It's more of a quantity issue, rather than a dependency issue. For example, having more
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by jhou2 10y ago
I agree that colonizing another world is important as a "backup policy" but I'm still skeptical that Mars is inhabitable in the long term with current technologies. I feel like human civilization would have a better chance o
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by jhou2 11y ago
Well, they could just buy applebank and ibank. There's quite a bit you can do with $0.1 trillion dollars.
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by jhou2 11y ago
Sigh, smh. The statistical flaws in this "back of the envelope" calculation are something else. This was a study based on "a Financial Times multiple choice survey of 77 high net worth and affluent mainland Chinese individua
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by jhou2 11y ago
Thanks for this bit. It was helpful to me. I was coming to a similar realization as well with my current company and team.
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by jhou2 11y ago
yeah, that was my initial hunch too.
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by jhou2 11y ago
A lot of the young people go back to Asia for better jobs after graduating. Silicon Valley and Seattle are popular destinations. Also some move to Toronto or Montreal.
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by jhou2 11y ago
Vancouver is not unique. Similar problems exist in many cities around the world. Vancouver today is a more vibrant and economically diverse city than it has ever been. The conversation over the direction of the city is contentious pitting t
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by jhou2 11y ago
This articl was a bit of a hit job. GitHub is changing as revenue and staff increase. That makes sense. There are always growing pains. A flat, so-called meritocratic structure only works in a few situations. GitHub makes the majority o
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by jhou2 11y ago
That's an interesting perspective. I would think it's the amount of precipitation at the major watersheds and reservoirs that would be indicative of an "onslaught", rather than what happens in Silicon Valley.
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by jhou2 11y ago
This was my experience too. I enjoyed shopping at my local Canadian Target. Clean aisles, brightly lit. Well priced, good quality. Superior experience to Walmart, Canadian Tire, or Loblaws. Sad when they exited the market.
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by jhou2 11y ago
And despite all those hoops, they still manage to move quite a lot of their money overseas. I'm glad they're not able to move more money faster because I don't think my local real estate market can handle any more incoming f
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by jhou2 11y ago
It works for the HR executives in charge. They can reduce headcount without bad PR, with the ostensible rationale that they are cutting the ones who don't have the passion and loyalty for the company.
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by jhou2 11y ago
Holacracy implies no organization. It is a freeform, organic, shapeless philosophy with possibly no direction. The migration project has taken 27 months with 300 staff, about 8100 man-months, with apparently little to show for progress. L
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Harbingers of failure: meet the customers you don’t want to love your product(arstechnica.com)
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by jhou2 11y ago
Usually chinese resellers like ibuygou, tinydeal, etc. Just do a search for them. Various forums have recommendations on where to buy them from. I see xiaomi items at some local shops too.
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by jhou2 11y ago
It's for privacy. Before this feature, the SPD had someone manually blur out faces to protect privacy. The burden this placed on police resources was a large factor in why they didn't want to or couldn't comply with public
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by jhou2 11y ago
At first I thought this was bad news for Groupon, but after reading about it, it seems like a logical strategy. Groupon recently exited Turkey and Greece, which makes a lot of sense considering the economic turmoil in those countries and i
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by jhou2 11y ago
I can immediately imagine a market for a Microsoft Linux distribution bundled with Microsoft enterprise support and Windows apps and Azure compatibility built in. Might even be a billion dollar market within a few years. I'm surpris
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by jhou2 11y ago
She routinely wins against male fighters in her training studio. Pound for pound, she wins regardless of her gender and perceived weakness.
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by jhou2 11y ago
Depends how far into the future you're asking. 5 years, 10 years, 50 years? My two cents is that everything is cyclical. It's easy now to forget about the 2007 real estate crash, the 1999-2001 dotcom bust, the recession in the

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