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by qq66 12y ago
No, mobile phones. People charged them off diesel generators, hand generators, etc. There were in fact small-scale entrepreneurs who bicycled around to everyone's house, gathered up the phones, and returned them charged for a small fee
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by qq66 12y ago
When I worked in the phone industry in India (2007) there were definitely communities that had near-complete phone adoption and near-zero electricity in the home. You don't need electricity to the home to charge a phone.
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by qq66 12y ago
Actually, nowhere near "everyone working for Big Pharma" needs to be a sociopath for the industry to act sociopathically. In fact, it can happen with as few as one or even zero sociopaths, since the organization has properties of
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by qq66 12y ago
My favorite type of Internet comment. Erroneously calling out someone on their math. 0.170mg times a thousand is 170mg, not 170g.
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by qq66 12y ago
No disrespect to Bob Mansfield, but I do not think that he built his career on his good looks alone.
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by qq66 12y ago
Keep in mind that to achieve differentiation, Sparkfun/Adafruit etc. do build proprietary products themselves. Mostly breakout boards and other things that require low capital investment but make the components that they resell (Atmel
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by qq66 12y ago
That's true now, but it's a fairly recent development in Apple's history. It remains to be seen whether Apple can maintain its enviable position in the long term.
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by qq66 12y ago
People who make their living by their art need to treat their art as a business, and set deadlines like any other business.
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by qq66 12y ago
These companies are already resellers for the most part. Why not just buy the products directly and compete with them?
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by qq66 12y ago
Connections is a thought-provoking series, but I don't think it acknowledges how speculative it is, and by extension how speculative almost all historical explanations are.
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by qq66 12y ago
Perhaps they're hiring him to be their "taster" - the guy who tests a prototype and says "it's perfect" or sends the team back to the drawing board. Jobs was famous for this role and Anand would be great at it,
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by qq66 12y ago
Best wishes to Anand. I do think the site has a little to worry about though. Whenever I read a particularly well written article on the site, I think "this must be Anand" and when I jump to the byline I'm correct. He sets a
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by qq66 12y ago
The military unmanned delivery aircraft are all tail sitters (500 pound payloads). I hope Google's drafting behind all the existing R&D there. The military stuff out there is crazy - hummingbird-size ornithopters, 2 ounce helicopte
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by qq66 12y ago
Well, lending is a very important function in an economy. Without lending, you could never invest more capital than you had on hand... If you had a handmade widget that you were producing for $10, and could only sell for $5, but a million-d
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by qq66 12y ago
You can use Facebook to accomplish everything you can do with your social network. Make your profile 2-3 sentences and your current city, allow people to request to see email, and just ignore the feed. The advantage of course is that there&
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by qq66 12y ago
Well, this is probably as good as it get for someone of my mathematical maturity. Thanks.
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by qq66 12y ago
So, is there any way for someone with no theoretical math background to even grasp a poor analogy of what her work is? With prizes like chemistry and biology, I can usually sit down with Google and slowly figure out what exactly the person
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by qq66 12y ago
The promise of self-driving cars is that they will be better and safer drivers than humans. Wouldn't that imply that they would be even now suitable for high-skill, dangerous driving?
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by qq66 12y ago
The camera operator situation is totally different because it's a work-for-hire, in which no copyright can be claimed. The director is under the same work-for-hire contract, in fact.
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by qq66 12y ago
The US phone comes with a one year warranty, which can be extended to three years for $99.
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by qq66 12y ago
Is that unusual? Depending on the size of the business, more people could be looking for the company than for Wikipedia information on caviar.
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by qq66 12y ago
While I don't see how spending $100 million will make a course any better, the price tag is not unrealistic if you truly make the definitive course on a topic that doesn't change frequently. For $1 billion you could have the equiv
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by qq66 12y ago
I guess you're only planning on seizing successful R&D through eminent domain? If so, I think most people would use a stronger word than "bummer" to describe the consequently reduced R&D investment. Pharmaceuticals ar
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by qq66 12y ago
What a stunningly successful PR exercise. The Atlantic will cover it and explicitly mention that its a PR campaign -- essentially, news coverage of PR.
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by qq66 12y ago
Furniture is very illiquid because of the transportation hassles. I bought three desks that had retailed for $500 each, for $33 each. That person would have been happy to get 50%.
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by qq66 12y ago
It's affected them quite a bit especially in expensive large items like TVs which are easier to buy locally but have large sales tax burdens. The business is still growing but slower than it would have without sales tax. Best Buy'
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by qq66 12y ago
Interesting. A complete atheist would be best able to run a church software business dispassionately, but wouldn't grasp the problem domain as well as an adherent of the faith. Perhaps this is a great place for complementary co-founder
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by qq66 12y ago
It has an interesting look, but it's not something I'd personally use on a daily basis.
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by qq66 12y ago
Bose has consistently made the world's best-performing active noise cancellation headsets. In home theater, they've targeted the best performance per unit of "unsightliness", so people who are willing to have 10 cubic fo
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by qq66 12y ago
Because of rush hour, a large fraction of self-driving cars will still need to park. However, they can drive themselves out of the city center and park in the cheaper outskirts.

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