jasonlmk

I'm surprised there aren't more philosophy-oriented books mentioned here. I think they make great gifts.

Many of my friends are straight out of university, and it's a period where most people seem to start asking existential questions. The two books which have affected me greatly (and which I regularly give as gifts) are:

* Meditations by Marcus Aurelius * Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

You hit the nail on the head here. The real issue with abundant rare earths is that over 95% of the global shipment of rare earths has historically been controlled by China.

Because of this, there's significant exposure to their export policies and hence high price volatility for these materials. For instance, in 2011, Neodymium saw a significant surge in price just because the government decided to limit export quotas.

> 98. Testimonials. Create commercials featuring real-life people in situations where buying a Mac (or switching to a Mac) saved the day.

This is an example of one thing that Apple gets really right. For some reason, other companies have found it really difficult to achieve the success that Apple has with their commercials and branding. Some (in my opinion) great work by Apple:

1. 2013 Christmas Commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76f6KPSJ2w)

2. Shot on iPhone6 (https://www.apple.com/au/iphone/world-gallery/)

Many of Einstein's actions were driven by the fact that he detected growing anti-Semitism early on. In fact, he relinquished his German citizenship twice because of this, and it was largely his fear and prediction of persecution that brought him to the US.

I don't think it's a question of Good vs Evil, but rather what was happening at that specific point in time - the fact that Jewish Germans were very publicly discriminated against (to the point where Jewish University academics in Germany were forced to hand in their resignation and barred from ever being public servants almost overnight).

Particularly excited about the cost reduction of batteries. They remain a barrier to having more affordable electric cars, and 30% goes a long way in putting more EVs on the road.

>While the camera was on, which was kind of intimidating

Felt the same way. There should be a homescreen of sorts when launching the app (e.g., an aggregation of all the questions you have asked. If none, then place a prompt to "ask a question" which takes you to the camera).

In case anyone missed it: Prezi finally decided to pay him the bounty.

Still a bad move to have denied him the bounty in the first place, but good to see that they're listening to the outrage.

These ones got me:

Google has an entire country What is Possible When There's no need to build a windmill Ask HN: How would I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

Absolutely hilarious!

I'd love to hear some of your thoughts about how technically feasible this actually is (under a single discussion thread).

[1] Sirkneeland states that it's going to be tough to engineer the antenna

[2] nwh states that "Any extendability it has will be stunted by the bus abatable to it; you won't get an external screen or upgraded processor on a flimsy usb-alike connector"

Any other thoughts?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632641 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632597

Coming from Australia, we've never had much exposure to Amazon, which leaves a ton of opportunity for price comparison websites.

Personally, I'd find it a pain if a price comparison website diverged from their core search offering. Sites like [1]PriceGeek still have price comparison front and centre - much more useful for me as a consumer who can't tap into the benefit that Amazon provides.

There's still room for price comparison, just maybe outside of the US.

[1] http://thepricegeek.com

Agreed. It's an actual testament to his skillset being put into use, and conveys more about his ability than a paper resume would.

Comes down to how inelastic I am at that price point as well. Personally, if I'm going to pay $739 for a 5c here in Australia, I might as well fork out an extra $130 to 'future proof' myself with the 5s. I get the feeling that Apple still needs to get the price of the 5c right.

A similar research based on the land lotteries in Georgia in 1832 and in Oklahoma in 1901 showed that outright increases in wealth (i.e., winning the lottery) had little or no effect on generational wealth. There was also another similar research on the land lotteries which showed negative effect on generational wealth.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SITE/archive/SITE_2010/segment...

If i'm not mistaken, Jason left his YC-backed startup some time ago. He's working out of D.C now with the Smithsonian.