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by skaevola 13y ago
Lenovo has been looking to enter the U.S. Smartphone for some time[0]. Acquiring a newly revitalized brand seems like a fairly good plan to do so. 0: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732333610...
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by skaevola 13y ago
Funny because fiber optic cable have been in use for more than a decade?
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by skaevola 13y ago
Can you cite sources for these claims? I've found it's very hard to find good scientific sources for the effects, but all of the research I've done on the topic suggests that you are grossly underestimating the effects. Here
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by skaevola 13y ago
> IBM...these are old dying giants who will never budge in the name of innovation. > IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.[15]
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by skaevola 13y ago
Pulp Fiction passes the Bechdel test. http://bechdeltest.com/view/91/
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by skaevola 13y ago
Cool tricks! About the debugging macros: printf prints messages to stdout, not stderr. You want to use fprintf instead: fprintf(stderr ,"error message"); This has the advantage of being unbuffered, and still printing to the
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by skaevola 13y ago
Despite outsourcing, the U.S. is still the world's second largest manufacturer.
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by skaevola 13y ago
> The barges are held under an LLC called By And Large, apparently a reference to Pixar’s “Buy n Large” of WALL·E, which is itself a reference to the phrase “by and large.” Really?
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by skaevola 13y ago
Yes, and we should ban cars for the sake of horse and buggy drivers. How can anybody take mandated inefficiency seriously?
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by skaevola 13y ago
For awareness of politics and current events try reading The Economist on the bus/train or listening to NPR when driving.
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by skaevola 13y ago
This isn't even a press release, this was news 5 months ago when the bill was actually in the legislature.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Er yes, misspoke. Although a union is for all intents and purpose a lobbying arm...
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by skaevola 13y ago
The Texas legislature meets for 140 days every odd year. The bill was not passed in this session (which is to say it failed). It will likely be reintroduced in 2015 when the Texas Legislature meets again.
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by skaevola 13y ago
This bill failed in the last legislative session. The next session begins in January 2015, and a similar bill will likely be re-introduced.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Musk clearly wants Tesla to sell all of their products themselves ala Apple. His stated reason was that car dealer's cannot properly advertise the benefits of electric cars without undermining their gasoline car business and so he does
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by skaevola 13y ago
You can buy a Tesla in Texas. You have to order it online and (as the page says) it will be delivered by a 3rd party. You can see plenty of them in Austin. Tesla also maintains two "showrooms", one in Austin and one in Houston whe
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by skaevola 13y ago
It was the airline which denied him the flight, not the TSA.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Not to mention protecting cops from spurious lawsuits. It seems like a win-win for everybody.
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by skaevola 13y ago
The article says: "In addition to the core of remaining engineers, Woodside brought in Googlers eager to sign up for the reclamation product, pitching Motorola’s revival as an underdog, startup-style enterprise. Seventy made the move.&
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by skaevola 13y ago
I believe it means that the electrical components are not accessible from the ground where they might be vulnerable to vandals or animals.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Ah yes, the privilege of not having all of your electronic communications monitored.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Here's a fairly useful article: http://hwstartup.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/how-to-run-an-ardu...
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by skaevola 13y ago
20k is nothing. Smartphone manufacturers will laugh at you for fewer than hundreds of thousands. To get a good deal they want to see millions.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Bought by Google.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Just don't drink the groundwater...
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by skaevola 13y ago
And, to be successful, billboard advertising necessarily must distract you.
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by skaevola 13y ago
One of the things which stuck with me from my social psychology class in college was a comparison of gender discrimination in hiring practices comparing male interviewers with female interviewers. The take away was that female interviewers
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by skaevola 13y ago
This is totally ridiculous. Working on a movie which has absolutely nothing to do with the author's admittedly terrible views is equivalent to being a Nazi? And they're now morally culpable for everything he's ever said? Seri
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by skaevola 13y ago
Definitely true, but not really responsive to my point.
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by skaevola 13y ago
Did you even read the article? > The rest make under $20 a week by working an hour or two per day. The most commonly cited reasons for using Mechanical Turk are to earn some extra spending money and productively use time that would other

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