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by czr80 9y ago
This doesn't really make sense - what was stopping them from raising prices before, if people are really willing to pay 3-4 EUR more?
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How Google ate CelebrityNetWorth.com(theoutline.com)
8 points by czr80 9y ago|2 comments
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Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement(imgtec.com)
254 points by czr80 9y ago|192 comments
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by czr80 10y ago
You're being downvoted, which is a bit harsh. However, you are thinking about this as a practical problem, when it is actually a mathematics exercise. The distinction comes naturally to some people, it's a real struggle for others
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by czr80 10y ago
Science funding is extremely competitive. Why would it be rational for EU researchers to take on additional risk?
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by czr80 10y ago
> With iMessage, Facetime, Filefault, if it failed, you were were no worse off than if you used something else. In this case, you actually are. What would someone be better off using?
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Anti-Choice Groups Use Smartphone Surveillance to Target Women at Clinics(rewire.news)
3 points by czr80 10y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 10y ago
He or she is quoting Good Will Hunting, I believe.
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by czr80 10y ago
Your "clerks" are usually academics, actually.
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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Plans Digital City for Google Car, Internet(recode.net)
2 points by czr80 10y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 10y ago
So many of these discussions take it for granted that publishers don't do anything of value. This blog post, by an open access advocate, was for me very illuminating on what value they actually add ( http://cameronneylon.net&
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What is it [academic] publishers do anyway?(cameronneylon.net)
1 points by czr80 11y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 11y ago
Probably a researcher in Senegal has access through this: http://www.research4life.org/about/
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by czr80 11y ago
Thanks! It's a good idea, but I can see why it was hard getting funding - it's a difficult market to enter: a lot of people are trying to do this, including large well entrenched competitors, there's a high regulatory burden,
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by czr80 11y ago
Feel comfortable sharing one idea? Just curious, completely understand if you'd prefer not to.
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by czr80 11y ago
It's a record label for startups.
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by czr80 11y ago
This is a point release.
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by czr80 11y ago
" I do not deny that Austrian economists have made valuable contributions to economics. Rather, as the sequel will argue, I maintain that: (a) The effort to rebuild economics along foundations substantially different from those of mode
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by czr80 11y ago
So, the post was taken down. Idly curious, I checked if Google had it cached. The post was there, but the text was very strange. Unless it was written like this (seems hard to believe), anyone know what would corrupt the text like this? &qu
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PolEcon of OA Publishing I: What is it publishers do anyway?(cameronneylon.net)
2 points by czr80 11y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 11y ago
Apple is in general a premium brand, not a luxury brand. The Apple Watch Edition is their first foray into luxury brand territory, See: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/luxury-vs-pr...
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by czr80 11y ago
You're also assuming a specific sense of justice - you're assuming that the utility of money is linear. (That is, giving up $10 is the same to someone earning minimum wage and to someone earning $150k). You can hold that view - bu
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by czr80 11y ago
Journals are communities of respected scientists.
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by czr80 12y ago
I was a bit confused as to how an article published by Wiley could even be on an Elsevier site, but it seems that the journal is transferring from Wiley to Elsevier. Guess they messed up the licensing when transferring the articles.
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by czr80 12y ago
Price discrimination is when a business charges different prices to different groups of consumers for the same product or service. Charging different prices for similar goods is not pure price discrimination.
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by czr80 12y ago
Yes. Google "stagflation".
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by czr80 12y ago
And if they are better at you at the experience side?
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Nature magazine publisher to merge with Springer Science(reuters.com)
2 points by czr80 12y ago|0 comments
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Siri Improvements(daringfireball.net)
4 points by czr80 12y ago|0 comments
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The Fire phone debacle(fastcompany.com)
233 points by czr80 12y ago|182 comments

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