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Actually ,people in the end do pay more, but it's subtle. Say you we're a customer that bought an iPhone every 2 years. Now Apple's yearly plan looks like: 1. A new iPhone every ye…

You say that one key is experimenting on pets(which will have huge barriers in the west). In china, eating dogs is legal.So why haven't we seen such research coming from china, and…

"Woz prototyped the guts of the Apple II, but needed a lot of help from people like Fernandez to turn it into reliable, repeatable hardware": https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comm…

The 10000x improvement is improvement in power * size. So you might be on the same ballpark. What abut large scale neural networks - they aren't mentioned in your site . No plans f…

In hong kong 90% of journeys are done using public transport.So the metaphor can be broken.

The bottleneck actually is arithmetic. "GPUs have much higher ALU throughput since the GPU chip area is almost entirely ALU" http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/bidmach-machi…

>> Is Apple Radio really going to add that much to your bottom line? They will try to use radio in 2 way: 1. Make it unqiue and hard to copy, to add one more reason for people to u…

But still , that calls for something like UBER with democratic vote over it's decisions. And since most people will be consumers ,not employees of that service , the incentive towa…

>> no worker protections Worker protection should apply equally to everyone, not give preferential treatment to one group(taxi drivers) at the expense of most other groups who just…

Android supports pressure sensitive touch at the API level since 2009, and There's a phone from 2015 that supports this from huawei. But they didn't create useful interactions with…

But haven't things changed? Google can do good design today, unlike before.Do consumers not believe this ?

There's nodered, an IOT dataflow engine. Seem to fit very well. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/node-red/

I'm not sure. With proterro working on making sugar at 1/3 of the cost(5 cents/pound) using synthetic bio, with solazyme selling specialized food components to the food industry, a…

In general i agree - on the innovation front, Apple isn't so strong.But like it did with maps - through the sheer power of investment ,together with owning the platform/user and a …

20 years is a long time. What if virtual reality becomes the preferred entertainment method ? What if something other than phones becomes the new status symbol ? What if android ma…

Not really. For example it was maybe possible to reliably warn other Jews. Or maybe help other Jews in countries that might in the future be aimed by Hitler find refuge. Potentiall…

How does the work for stowers is arranged ? do the computer give them specific sets of items to stow ? or is arranged according to the order the goods arrive ? And what is this pal…

>> the horror of the concentration camps was not well known to the public during the war But it was pretty well known for the british and american governments(since 1941 or at the …

I don't think it's really random.Since it's dictated by the computer, even though it looks random, i'm sure there are some patterns in the order(for example there are items that st…

>> yet it's hard to find good content regarding how company X got to know their users and build what they really wanted. Isn't all the work by steve-blank and the lean-startup deal…

I'm curious - since we know that a sales-like-process works for this kind of problems, didn't the private sector invent more scalable sales methods - and maybe they will be useful …

And by effective you mean easy ?

Because the advancements in the field are interesting and wide ranging: neural networks doing vision, speech, natural language understanding, reasoning and general learning over da…