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by josu 11y ago
This is a bit off topic, but this GIF of a carrot harvesting machine never ceases to amaze me: http://i.imgur.com/UkTalyS.gifv
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by josu 11y ago
If you really want to understand how buyout happen, "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" is a really good book. http://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Gate-The-Fall-Nabisco-ebook...
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by josu 11y ago
Yeah, I thought it was the Sun Tzu first too, which could as well be on his list. Thank you for compiling them.
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by josu 11y ago
>"The Art Of War" It actually is "The art of war for lovers" by Connell Cowan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317214.The_ART_OF_WAR_FO... http://www.amazon.com/The-ART-WA
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by josu 11y ago
I don't know, even if this effect exists, its weight on the overall math performance is really weak, there many other factors at play. Just compare the PISA results [1] of countries that use the same language: FRENCH France: 495 Switze
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by josu 11y ago
>giving instructions to your phone still feels weird to me And yet, I refer to my phone as "he". >so much that he understand almost everything I say.
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by josu 11y ago
Same here. I have a pretty thick Spanish accent, but the Google voice search has improved so much that he understand almost everything I say. I still don't use it that often though, giving instructions to your phone still feels weird t
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by josu 11y ago
And let's not forget that one of the biggest (post dot com bubble) Spanish statups, Gowex, which was valued at 1.9B at some point, turned out to be a big fraud, a la Enron. [1] [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/artic
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by josu 11y ago
But roundabouts are insensitive to where the traffic is coming from. With light traffic, this is not a problem, but with heavy traffic, if all directions are getting the same priority, it may hurt the entrances with more traffic.
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by josu 11y ago
I have an Asus laptop and I had to perform black magic in order to get the mini jack audio out to work.
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by josu 11y ago
You are right. The reason behind it is that these companies use mitochondrial DNA for their analysis, which is only passed down from mother to child. /s
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by josu 11y ago
>she lets them into her house She didn't need to though, they could have entered through the garage door while she was away.
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by josu 11y ago
And also: What about polluting the blockchain? We will move this protocol to a Bitcoin sidechain designed specifically for public data as soon as the technology for building sidechains becomes available. In the meantime we've been usi
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by josu 11y ago
Wrong data is much much worse that no data, since it may lead you down the wrong path. Think what the false news of a Russian nuclear strike in US soil would have done during the Cold War.
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by josu 11y ago
So is 1, but it doesn't seem to matter.
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by josu 11y ago
It's really well explain on the video linked by nns https://youtu.be/KDiLEyT9spI?t=624
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by josu 11y ago
No, it doesn't, it was just an example of a multiplier system, rather than a multi tiered system.
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by josu 11y ago
From the article: >That's already in the works at LADWP, which could go from a two-tier system to four tiers. Marty Adams of the DWP told me that in the case of the highest user in Bel-Air, the $90,000 annual cost of water would ris
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by josu 11y ago
I see your point, thanks.
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by josu 11y ago
Sure, I understand that. My problem is with this statement: > The whole consensus network of Bitcoin is based around burning so much energy/space/infrastructure on hashing that a single actor wouldn't be able to invest a b
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by josu 11y ago
>The whole consensus network of Bitcoin is based around burning so much energy/space/infrastructure on hashing that a single actor wouldn't be able to invest a bunch of money and take a controlling majority. If you have
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by josu 11y ago
On top of that there is a typo: "Intel HG Graphics" http://i.imgur.com/kLt8Ydz.png
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by josu 11y ago
No, I wasn't thinking about mobility. I was thinking that this may sell pretty well, the price is adequate for the specs, and it's standardized (just one product, unlike HP or Lenovo with their Z, X, P, T32... variations).
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by josu 11y ago
I may understand their need to differentiate from Apple with the blue background. But why the sliding laptop that made it look like a cheap BestBuy commercial?
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by josu 11y ago
1:30 [1] Why? Everything was so elegant until that. [1] https://youtu.be/XVfOe5mFbAE?t=90
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by josu 11y ago
If they are able to optimize the Oculus for this hardware, it could be a winning combination.
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by josu 11y ago
Those tariffs are really well explained on this Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/episo...
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by josu 11y ago
If he had been appointed CEO of a fortune cookie factory would he have made the announcement through fortune cookies? What about a tattoo parlor?
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by josu 11y ago
Thank you! I'd be nice if the mods could change the link.
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What I Learned About Al Qaeda from Analyzing the ‘Bin Laden’ Audio Tapes(news.vice.com)
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