jonnathanson

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by jonnathanson 9y ago
"Eink devices are not (or rather, should not be) competing with the tablet that is the iPad." I'm not arguing that they should compete. Rather, I'm arguing that the iPad can be seen as having opened the door to mainstr
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You could make the counterargument that tablets floundered in obscurity for years until Apple released the iPad. The iPad made tablet ownership nearly ubiquitous among the types of people who might someday want to use a tablet for business
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"thinks austerity in parts of Europe has gone too far, etc." This is significant editorial change of heart. The Economist was a loud, regular voice in favor of austerity policies for many years. That it has written critically of
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I think the worst case is a little hairier than that. Companies keep records of their applicants and interview feedback. I'm dramatically oversimplifying, but your feedback will spell out two things in isolation: your fit for the role
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Cultural promotion isn't a uniquely Chinese phenomenon. I'd guess that most countries with the cash to spend will spend at least something on promoting and sponsoring cultural awareness abroad. Or their tourism bureaus will advert
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They're actually unassigned, but you can pay $35 to reserve one. It's like Southwest Airlines.
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""I controlled my central amygdala" (how could you possibly know that?)" I dunno, maybe he just felt like he did. ;)
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This article tickles my spidey sense. It reads like a sponsored story, or at the very least, an article written quickly and uncritically by someone who just took NeuroAD's press release and talking points at face value. To wit, the art
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Nuclear detonations can produce extremely powerful seismic activity, and the effects are often felt on instruments designed to monitor earthquakes. And nobody has ever detonated an actual 100-megaton warhead before, or anything close to it.
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People wouldn't be running these playbooks if they didn't work. For years and years we've been telling everyone that software is eating the world, and that everyone needs to be more data driven. This is one of those results:
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"To me he lives in a fairy tale world" That's exactly why he's so popular. He's selling a dream: you, too, can live in the fairytale world if you buy my book and do X, Y, Z. It's a classic escapism/wish-
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Yes. I think it's fair to say that structural paradigms above and beyond the concepts of "roof" and "city" have emerged that have fundamentally changed the nature of this prediction. Perhaps unintentionally, this le
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"Can you imagine it in the automotive,aeronautical, transport etc?" This. This is the most important point I've read so far. The key word here is "imagine." I think even we, as an industry, don't quite grok t
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Shiny things and organizational volunteer work seem to become incresingly important as companies grow in size, the volume of internal projects increases, and thus it becomes a lot harder to gain consistent internal visibility. So working on
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I think we need to ask ourselves: when we seek out the news source's agenda first, what are we really trying to accomplish? Are we trying to think critically about what we're about to read? Or are we applying a quick heuristic fil
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"If you inserted a CD, iTunes instantly offered to rip it for you, fully automatically." You're correct. I think my memory of product timelines in the early days is a bit hazy. Even still, I'd love to see data that rip
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There's a method to the McMansion madness: the houses are designed in a sort of modular style that assumes the owners will regularly reconfigure and remodel to keep up with the latest trends. Kitchen out of date? Gut the kitchen module
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by jonnathanson 10y ago
"(if technically challenged) simply bought it physically and then ripped it to iTunes." Minor nitpick, but ripping from CD to iTunes in the early days was a nontrivial process for the technically challenged. I'd argue that
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by jonnathanson 10y ago
Writing speeches is fantastic practice. More than anything, it teaches you to write the way you talk. That's generally a good thing. Most forms of writing education tell you to communicate clearly, as though you're speaking your
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by jonnathanson 10y ago
There are three levels of discomfort some people feel with this situation: 1. Concern that a single, third-party entity (Google, in this case) might peer into every aspect of our lives, and/or reverse-engineer an exhaustive catalog of
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Essentially that's what Agent Smith does in the Matrix sequels. He can't "escape" the Matrix, but he can basically make it his own. (For the purposes of this analogy I'm intentionally ignoring the ridiculous scene
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It's completely wacky, but if you've got a few mil to drop on wacky ideas, it starts to seem a bit less wacky in the grand scheme of things. It's basically a wager: "There's a small, but perhaps nonzero chance I&#x2
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"Various excuses have been used from "I don't want to see an episode in the theater" to "I don't want to give Fox money" I heard similar from some of my friends. I kept trying to explain to them that Fox
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Self-reported sentiment is still a useful metric, but I agree that we should only make so much of it, and that we shouldn't conflate it with harder metrics.
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Quora, like Twitter, is one of those information networks that are what you make of them. You need to put in the effort to pick interests and people to follow. The service is pretty "dumb" until you have it dialed in. Once you&#x2
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Generally speaking, there's nobody out there proactively enforcing antidiscrimination laws. The enforcement pathway is reactive. You get penalized for discrimination (in theory) when someone you've discriminated against brings leg
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Gotcha. I've usually heard Moby Dick referenced to mean something elusive or borderline impossible to catch -- which is not necessarily the same thing as rarity, but has a similar outcome I suppose. Of course, as you point out, the ult
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The analogy strains at times, but I don't find it completely ridiculous. In the world of sales and BD, "whale" is a common name for a very big account or target. Oftentimes this means a big company.
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It's meant to be pronounced like the brand "Gucci." The name is a portmanteau of Gucci and Lucifer, using the Italian cc- pronunciation of Gucci and not the soft-c of Lucifer. The G is hard.
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Yes, plus there's also the size and frequency of the pain point to consider. Uber makes sense; millions and millions of us need to get somewhere at any given point in the day, and many of those millions have that need multiple times a

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