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I would also add to this list audible.com which restricts certain books to US only. I am a platinum subscriber to audible, however, I couldn't get my hands on Stephen King's Under …

listening podcasts and audiobooks on normal speed => listening at 2x speed

The nice thing about markets is that people can put their money where their mouth is. I wonder if DHH, assuming he had an opportunity, would short facebook at $50 billion valuation…

they would just multiply the number of downloads by the average ticket price and ask for the compensation for the lost revenues caused by piracy.

1. at least in the urban areas, there are always just as many schools to choose form as grocery stores (so check) 2. easy, just select schools with good graduation, low crime etc. …

and at providing the service.

Because the profit component makes any system more efficient.

If they did a better job, they would.

Since goals change every 4 years and that is a major problem, let's just privatize the whole thing.

Maybe instead of comparing military and education in terms of why unions are allowed in one and not in the other, he should just make a comparison between education and any private…

> "Due to Armadillo Aerospace, in the last decade I have observed and interacted with a lot of different agencies, civil servants, and congressmen, and I have collected enough data…

To see what the most advanced futurists, namely Jules Verne, were thinking about the far out future, take a few minutes and read this interesting piece published in 1889. The story…

I had the same problem and then I switched on Safari's Reader feature -- problem solved.

results were negative.

According to The Invisible Gorilla (very interesting book btw) there have been other experiments done with gamers that supposedly found improved cognitive abilities resulting from …

I got used to controller after about 40 hours of gameplay. However, the first 10 hours were quite damaging to my self esteem. You have to be mentally strong, just keep grinding, it…

good points. if greeks started paying all the taxes, the private sector would cease to exist.

It hurts the government, but the institutions that were dumb enough to lend Greece should be also accountable. Of course if Greece defaults, German taxpayers are likely to pick up …

During the last 12 months, I have personally spent over $200 on Provigil, however I'm not sure it works. I feel smarter when I'm on it but it might be just a placebo effect.

Good point. From the literature I've encountered it also folows that nonfat icecream is not the solution, it's the problem.

if I go by google numbers then daily uniques are closer to 50k which is still decent for a blog.

I checked out his getrichslowly.org stats on alexa -- seems his site is getting 150-200k uniques per day. Is that considered high enough for a blog to generate decent income?

Thanx, I might actually try that for registered users.

..and which were obvious to make a difference. At the site that I work the following things made a measurable impact on the traffic, user retention and user engagement: 1) Make con…

So does Ray Kurzweil from Queens.