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Trying to un-commoditize a commodity, a terrible business strategy. Apple can do it, but apple isn't reeeally selling computers, certainly not PCs.

Maybe it's the statistically well supported paradox that men are overrepresented at the extremes, both negative and positive extremes. And start-ups, for various reasons not limite…

The idea of ideas as viruses is old. They can infect you, then can breed with other ideas, they spread, etc. Religion world wide does seem to follow a pattern of more complicated a…

The industry, actually several industries both electronics manufacturers and media companies, need the new new thing to keep sales up. It is a consumer driven economy after all. An…

Yeah, that's what happens when actually have some competence, and thus you know that you know very little AND you also know the crowd here will call your BS on these subject. Oh bu…

You're... kidding, but I had to think about it.

I'll take a thoughtful essay on architecture and the power of government over the crap OMG look at this crazy Sh!t! and the self help How to lose weight/How to get a date/How to be…

Relevant: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dis...

It's a bit more then a social construct. The language family is called Indo-European because of shared ancestry.

From your wikipedia link: Blue eyes contain low amounts of melanin... Blue eyes are most common in Northern Europe and Central Europe and to a lesser degree in Southern Europe,Nort…

Don't only Caucasians have blue eyes? And aren't they (full disclosure "we" in my case) also the only ones with the mutated version of the gene which controls how much melanin is d…

3 weeks unpaid time off, if my recollection is correct. And then they go spend that kind of cash on an acquisition, I doubt it will create a lot of good will inside the company.

Landscapers have been a problem for me absolutely everywhere I've lived. I have two choices, rid the world of early morning landscapers or sound proof the house, starting with bett…

I can't stand noise as well, but I've always taken it for granted that it is my job to stop noise from entering my home. I am always surprised by people who also hate noise, but do…

But it is also a high risk, high yield strategy. The high yield is great, the high risk not so much. It is heavily reliant on very few, very closely related varieties and pesticide…

Here's something that bothers me. The super strains of wheat came from crossing a wide variety of diverse wheat species, just one example the sturdy stalk came from a Japanese dwar…

I am surprised by the load bearing power of steel, the total height of a crane made of steel + the counter weight + the weight of what it's lifting, that's a lot of force at the bo…

Accidentally bad math or intentionally bad math? I recall the great article posted here, written by the self identified godfather of the software to slice and repackage risk. And I…

Botanist Natalie Tapson says the plant is a genetic freak that can only reproduce by cloning itself. She says it's under threat from the introduced phytophera fungus... Sexual repr…

Speaking as a gen X member, gen Y is now what, just getting out of college at best? While we're in our 30s to 40s. This comparison is silly.

Few things make me feel palpable joy like this.

1-13 are about treating the symptoms of failed states. How about we treat the disease itself instead? Politics and state building sure are a whole lot more complex and difficult, a…

Quick, get the FBI to harass some of those gene hackers and put some more regulations and restrictions around med. tech, that'll help.