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.@Lyft hopes to survive competition with @Uber — w/ a novel strategy between private rides & public #transportation
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/541791/lyfts-search-for-a-new-mode-of-transport

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Regular Lyft rides can be two-thirds of a taxi fare or less, but a Lyft Line ride is even cheaper, and the company aims to shrink the price further. Green says this makes Lyft something new: a third category of transportation somewhere between public and private. “}}

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/10/verizon-and-att-are-carrying-the-blackberry-priv-but-should-you-buy-it/

Crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, Upwork, TaskRabbit, among others, have given researchers access to a large participant pool that operates around the clock.

https://www.taskrabbit.com/
http://upwork.com
http://www.crowdflower.com/
http://fiverr.com
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/overview

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematical-mysteries/

Failing To Find Users, Dropbox Will Shut Down Mailbox
http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/07/failing-to-find-users-dropbox-will-shut-down-mailbox-in-february-2016-and-carousel-in-march/ Example like gcode of a stoppage disrupting personal workflows

10 types of #regressions. Which one to use?
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/forum/topics/10-types-of-regressions-which-one-to-use Pitfalls of common approaches, eg linear or logistic via @KirkDBorne

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/12/ecpa_reform_the_sec_wants_to_undermine_important_email_privacy_legislation.html

http://news.yale.edu/2015/12/07/yale-introduces-innovative-carbon-charge-program-20-living-laboratories-around-campus?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn-12-08-15

Creed for speed http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21679448-pace-business-really-getting-quicker-creed-speed True for $AAPL? App downloads every ms & >1k iPhones sold in 5′ but much of board serving for >5 yrs

QT:{{"“A CUSTOMER downloads an app from Apple every millisecond. The firm sells 1,000 iPhones, iPads or Macs every couple of minutes. It whips through its inventories in four days and launches a new product every four weeks. Manic trading by computers and speculators means the average Apple share changes hands every five months.”
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And what about Apple, with the frantic antics of which this article began? Its directors have served for an average of six years. It has invested heavily in fixed assets, such as data centres, which will last for over a decade. It has pursued truly long-term strategies such as acquiring the capacity to design its own chips. Mr Cook has been in his post for four years and slogged away at the firm for 14 years before that. Apple is 39 years old, and it has issued bonds that mature in the 2040s.
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