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It's a lot of work to set up billing in all the different countries, so they may not have bothered. There are also a lot of legal issue with different privacy laws (Europe being st…

A lot of classical psych studies get completely different results when run in non-Western societies (I'd link but Wikipedia cites a print publication |:). There's a tendency to vie…

Intellectual Ventures, at least, is structured as tens of thousands of theoretically independent corporations each owning one or a small number of patents. The idea is to have as f…

If it works to get people started then it works. I honestly don't remember how I got started programming - some people rhapsodize about that first moments coding, but for me it was…

Has anyone had any real-world experience using X!0? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(programming_language) It came out of IBM (Eclipse license) at about the same time as Watson, a…