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by minthd 12y ago
It's not exact. Man care more about their place in the hierarchy , while women care more about how they're perceived by people around them.
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by minthd 12y ago
>> I think GoogleX projects are fine, b/c they are in fact PR projects Two much collaboration with serious companies for that to be true. Unless you're saying everybody invests time and money in such PR efforts.
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by minthd 12y ago
Yes i agree Google-X plans are ambitious.It's really hard to tell how unrealistic are they, but they did achieve some pretty brilliant results(self driving car driving 700K miles, Google loon progress[1]), And as for price, Google do s
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by minthd 12y ago
I agree with your point, but looking at the projects,there's a clear difference between the companies: most of MS's projects(maybe except hololens) have large business value risk, on top of the technical risk. On the other hand,
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by minthd 12y ago
What tools are you using to gain such advantage?
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by minthd 12y ago
Microsoft research vs Google is an interesting case, especially considering that Google's glucose sensing contact lens project originaly started at microsot research, but Novartis is licensing them from Google.
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by minthd 12y ago
Maybe the idea is much higher profit margins than labcorp + potential for larger demand(painless blood tests,fast results, and general trends in medicine) + potential overseas ,since it's basically a tech company, not a services compan
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by minthd 12y ago
Amazon has started shifting some demand to it's sorting centers and from there to the USPS - to individual post offices. Maybe this explains the fixed number of UPS drivers. The nice thing in this for Amazon , is that this really short
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by minthd 12y ago
I don't know him by any means, But i don't think he has that much influence on the matter. He has a business to run, with certain incentives built in, and that probably requires choosing certain choices, whether he feels they are
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by minthd 12y ago
I'm not from the field, but is it that hard, for a reasonably well funded organization, to build a safe lab ?
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by minthd 12y ago
Yes biology is complicated. But we are starting to understand it reasonably well,and more importantly ,we're starting to design it even without understanding. For example, there's a company that produces microbes that create certa
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by minthd 12y ago
I started reading it ,but didn't find it very interesting. A summary would be surely far more interesting.
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by minthd 12y ago
There's really one clear goal behind this: building Ive's image as a design genius, responsible for the major decisions behind Apple's products, in the same way Jobs's image was created. Why ? because it creates a unique
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by minthd 12y ago
Care to write a better summary ? I'm sure many would be interested and upvote.
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by minthd 12y ago
Haven't they reached mostly everyone who cares, through makerspaces, etc ?
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by minthd 12y ago
Certain segment of car owners pays lots of money for comfort, great design and great branding. Apple is certainly strong in those areas. And who knows ,if it's not good enough in the rest that's needed, it can always cooperate.
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by minthd 12y ago
If you read the details of schneier's post , he basically says "we don't know".
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by minthd 12y ago
It's really hard to build a case against disruption theory, using a single product, especially when the competition has only been "good enough" just since the last year or so, with kitkat and apps using its design language,
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by minthd 12y ago
It's just the reviews on such low cost phones runing FFoS are pretty bad, and once you climb to $65 or $100 , windows phone and android offer much better alternatives.
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by minthd 12y ago
Really ? Their OS really shines in low cost devices aimed at the developing world(it's supposed to be much better and cheaper than whatever android can achieve). I would imagine a $100 is a substantial barrier for developers there.
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by minthd 12y ago
Tl;DR - name change + license change to a more commercial friendly open source license.
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by minthd 12y ago
HN is a poor subsitute for RSS. By definition, once something gets viewership on HN, it's no longer belongs to the long tail, the niche where RSS is the strongest.
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by minthd 12y ago
Car manufacturers are aiming wrong because of their old business model. Google is aiming at a taxi service, where expensive car costs are less critical, but being first to market(by quite a few years), reliable, having a large network and a
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by minthd 12y ago
Google is public , but they offered unique stocks where control stays with the founders. So if they decide to invest in competing with UBER ,they will.
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by minthd 12y ago
You misunderstand the motivation behind self-driving cars. It's not ads and not data. Google has enough of that. It's just that a huge bunch of money goes to whoever who controls those.
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by minthd 12y ago
Personally i think Google's mission is much more heroic.
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by minthd 12y ago
But all the money in a be portfolio is made in the extreme cases. I don't think selecting risk averse entrepreneurs gets one there.
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by minthd 12y ago
Thank you.
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by minthd 12y ago
Any free links to the content ?
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by minthd 12y ago
The nytimes usually don't fall to that trick.

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