I can’t stop laughing at these.
“Cellphone producers worked with a Taiwan company that stands outside of Chinese governance, MediaTek, to quickly produce affordable and customizable cellphones that could flood markets within and outside of China. Essentially, cellphone producers dreamed of a way to operate outside of market regulations for cellphones and in the end shanzai phones now are estimated to makeup 20% of all cellphone sales within China.” —
Incredibly interesting article on mobile innovation in China.
“Education has become a substitute for thinking about your future.” — Peter Thiel, from Pando Monthly earlier this evening. Although I don’t agree on everything he said it was thoroughly refreshing to hear someone that _actually had clear opinions about things, and not just the default cliché startup ramblings that are so common. He made me think, which I always appreciate.
“A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 ( $3.99 shipping).” —
Interesting side effect of algorithm based pricing.
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
“When she rounded for the third attempt, however, she radioed down to say she could hear her right engine begin to sputter. “She knew at that point she didn’t have enough fuel to miss and go around and try it again,” Mr. Kasbohm said.” —
Amazing story.
Learning to Be a Pilot, With Fuel Running Out in Midair - NYTimes.com
(Source: textsfromhillaryclinton)
“Speaking in Harrisburg, Pa., Romney told an audience that Obama may have spent “too much time at Harvard,” according to NBC. Obama, who has a law degree from Harvard, spent three years there. Romney, who earned both a Harvard law degree and business degree, spent four years at the university and was by all accounts a motivated student who was happy with the institution during his time there.” —
Stranger than fiction.
Mitt Romney, Harvard JD/MBA, Says Obama Spent Too Much Time At Harvard | TPM2012
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