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July 17 - August 3, 2017
Something new had passed Go.
“Don’t anthropomorphize computers—they hate it.”
never a truer word spoken
Orley Ashenfelter
“adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose Noun.
Moley Robotics
“peace dividend of the smartphone wars,
When both complexity and hardness become free, many long-standing constraints are eased.
“architecture is politics.”
“There’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.”
“the absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. . . . Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity.”
half of the items in the closet of an average American are worn fewer than three
the company reportedly generated $20 billion in annual gross bookings. By June 2016, Uber was valued at
analyst Tim Long of BMO Capital Markets estimated that Apple had made fully 103.9% of total operating profits across all mobile device manufacturers in the third quarter of 2016.
Uber, for example, was by early 2017 conducting spot checks by asking drivers to periodically take “selfie” photos. The company compared them to the pictures on file to make sure that the approved person was, in fact, driving the car.
“High reputation beats high similarity,”
more than 1,800 plastic, 3D-printed hands have been created, assembled,
something to make your heart sing
they are one of the best ways we’ve ever come up with to get big things done in the world.
The failure of The DAO and challenges within the Bitcoin-mining network show that there are problems with the idea of completely decentralized organizations.
Coming Revolution on Your Desktop—From Personal Computers
