My guess is that those mental models don't provide much comfort to people suffering from depression. Our brains evolved over many years and they require certains things to be present to be able to work at a normal mood…
South Korea - military dictatorship until the late 80s Taiwan - one party state + martial law from 1949 - 1987. Singapore - one party has held power for over 40 years. These three countries have transformed themselves…
They did this before with the nytimes and it didn't end the way Tesla would've liked. The writer had a number of problems, and Elon Musk accused him of being dishonest to create a story. Here's the original article:…
There's a lot of academic literature that supports the claim that reports of suicide in the media lead to an increase in the number of suicides. This is often referred to as "copycat suicide" or "the Werther effect". As…
Your point still stands, but Singapore is far more western than Japan.
While university sport certainly exists, the major differences are that i) they don't generate any revenue, and ii) student athletes don't receive any advantage in university admissions.
> their shit-bag leader spends all of their money developing weapons that even the most hard-up revolutionaries wouldn't be caught dead with. I was under the impression that the attraction of nuclear weapons is that…
Except that publishers won't agree to such a deal, meaning that any console implementing such a policy would lose third-party support resulting in significantly decreased sales units, and ultimately billion dollar loses…
I'm guessing that the publishers were only willing to allow features such as family sharing etc in exchange for limiting used disc sales.
Those rules were relaxed three years ago. http://n4g.com/news/607824/apple-approves-manomios-c64-2-0-a...
From the article: > FISA orders can range from inquiries about specific people to a broad sweep for intelligence, like logs of certain search terms, lawyers who work with the orders said. Looks like personal data could…
I'm looking forward to buying it, and I haven't bought a game in years. While there are definitely a lot of people out there who really wanted the game on day 1, and are very hurt that they might not be able to play it…
Could someone explain why she felt compelled to talk? She was advised to by her lawyers, and she was concerned that she'd be arrested if she didn't. Was it because she had a legal obligation to assist in the…
> who had both the chance and the opportunity to use the access to leak stuff that could have been quite damaging to the company - yet didn't According to the article, he'd leaked "troves" of development documents…
Could you add an email to your profile? I'd like to email you regarding Masters courses at UniMelb.
Authoring the RSS spec may be an exaggeration. A history of RSS can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Basically, it seems like the original RSS spec (RSS 0.9) was authored by two guys at Netscape, and…
If he accepted the plea bargain of six months, then the case wouldn't have gone to trial, avoiding the excessive legal fees. I don't understand the timeline, but had he accepted the plea bargain, is it not possible that…
I don't have any idea about how easy it would be to detect a laptop connected directly to an Ethernet switch, but the court documents do mention that Aaron placed the laptop in the closet on December 26th, and it wasn't…
Why are you mentioning the figure of 35 years? According to the WSJ, the prosecution was planning to push for seven years at trial, and were willing to offer six months in exchange for a guilty plea. It's also my…
It seems odd that they would state that one of their cofounders "brings a degree in electronics and computing from M.I.T." when he in fact went to Manukau Institute of Technology.
>They make $575 in profit from an iPhone but pay the Foxconn workers $7 to assemble it. They could double the pay and still make a very huge profit. Assembling the iPhone is a small and very insignificant part of…
Traditional publishers trembling? That would seem unlikely to me given that one of the legends of the game development community only managed to raise a budget equivalent to an average XBLA game.
According to Isaacson's biography, it was Markkula who insisted that Jobs be heavily involved in the non-engineering areas of the company.
The Social Network was adapted from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The screenplay followed the original book closely.
>If true, this would completely change the balance-of-power in the Apple-Samsung legal battles. Don't think that's true. Worst-case scenario is that Apple releases a firmware update that removes the switching…
My guess is that those mental models don't provide much comfort to people suffering from depression. Our brains evolved over many years and they require certains things to be present to be able to work at a normal mood…
South Korea - military dictatorship until the late 80s Taiwan - one party state + martial law from 1949 - 1987. Singapore - one party has held power for over 40 years. These three countries have transformed themselves…
They did this before with the nytimes and it didn't end the way Tesla would've liked. The writer had a number of problems, and Elon Musk accused him of being dishonest to create a story. Here's the original article:…
There's a lot of academic literature that supports the claim that reports of suicide in the media lead to an increase in the number of suicides. This is often referred to as "copycat suicide" or "the Werther effect". As…
Your point still stands, but Singapore is far more western than Japan.
While university sport certainly exists, the major differences are that i) they don't generate any revenue, and ii) student athletes don't receive any advantage in university admissions.
> their shit-bag leader spends all of their money developing weapons that even the most hard-up revolutionaries wouldn't be caught dead with. I was under the impression that the attraction of nuclear weapons is that…
Except that publishers won't agree to such a deal, meaning that any console implementing such a policy would lose third-party support resulting in significantly decreased sales units, and ultimately billion dollar loses…
I'm guessing that the publishers were only willing to allow features such as family sharing etc in exchange for limiting used disc sales.
Those rules were relaxed three years ago. http://n4g.com/news/607824/apple-approves-manomios-c64-2-0-a...
From the article: > FISA orders can range from inquiries about specific people to a broad sweep for intelligence, like logs of certain search terms, lawyers who work with the orders said. Looks like personal data could…
I'm looking forward to buying it, and I haven't bought a game in years. While there are definitely a lot of people out there who really wanted the game on day 1, and are very hurt that they might not be able to play it…
Could someone explain why she felt compelled to talk? She was advised to by her lawyers, and she was concerned that she'd be arrested if she didn't. Was it because she had a legal obligation to assist in the…
> who had both the chance and the opportunity to use the access to leak stuff that could have been quite damaging to the company - yet didn't According to the article, he'd leaked "troves" of development documents…
Could you add an email to your profile? I'd like to email you regarding Masters courses at UniMelb.
Authoring the RSS spec may be an exaggeration. A history of RSS can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Basically, it seems like the original RSS spec (RSS 0.9) was authored by two guys at Netscape, and…
If he accepted the plea bargain of six months, then the case wouldn't have gone to trial, avoiding the excessive legal fees. I don't understand the timeline, but had he accepted the plea bargain, is it not possible that…
I don't have any idea about how easy it would be to detect a laptop connected directly to an Ethernet switch, but the court documents do mention that Aaron placed the laptop in the closet on December 26th, and it wasn't…
Why are you mentioning the figure of 35 years? According to the WSJ, the prosecution was planning to push for seven years at trial, and were willing to offer six months in exchange for a guilty plea. It's also my…
It seems odd that they would state that one of their cofounders "brings a degree in electronics and computing from M.I.T." when he in fact went to Manukau Institute of Technology.
>They make $575 in profit from an iPhone but pay the Foxconn workers $7 to assemble it. They could double the pay and still make a very huge profit. Assembling the iPhone is a small and very insignificant part of…
Traditional publishers trembling? That would seem unlikely to me given that one of the legends of the game development community only managed to raise a budget equivalent to an average XBLA game.
According to Isaacson's biography, it was Markkula who insisted that Jobs be heavily involved in the non-engineering areas of the company.
The Social Network was adapted from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The screenplay followed the original book closely.
>If true, this would completely change the balance-of-power in the Apple-Samsung legal battles. Don't think that's true. Worst-case scenario is that Apple releases a firmware update that removes the switching…