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Comment · 8 years ago
I grew up in Fort Collins, and live here now after an itinerant period, and I'll say that overall the city government has always been far-sighted, a good steward of the tax money they get, and provided good public services.

I'm pretty confident that they'll do this well.

Comment · 8 years ago
I live in Fort Collins and can confirm that we were absolutely inundated with mailers, and other forms of ads.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is definitely true for my 7 year old daughter. She's an avid reader, but even when I buy a book she is very interested in reading (typically the next in a current series) on a Kindle rather than getting her a hard copy, she'll end up reading something else.
Comment · 9 years ago
You can mostly trust Swiss people to be that honest. It doesn't work like that everywhere.
Comment · 9 years ago
True, but it's plausible enough that 7 year-olds can connect the dots from existing or close-to-existing technologies.
Comment · 9 years ago
We got an Echo over the holidays, and watching my 7, 5 and 3 year old daughters interact with it has given me a glimpse of what bringing home a black-and-white TV in the 50s must have been like: Objectively it's pretty limited, but it (voice-driven interaction, rather than the Echo specifically) is so obviously the future it's striking.

Separately, I've told my daughters that they probably won't ever need to learn to drive--cars will probably do it for them by the time they are driving age.

They've put two and two together, and the other day I overheard them saying "Someday we'll be able to call an Alexa car and have it take us where ever we want."

Comment · 10 years ago
Swiss culture is very small-c conservative, with heavy value on making rational, pragmatic decisions. It is no surprise that they have a system which reflects that, and performs well for that population.
Comment · 10 years ago
Right, but all those are inherent to the people of Switzerland. The same system in, say, Italy wouldn't get those results.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yes. My nephew is a Junior and starting to look at schools and my main message to him is "wherever you can minimize your debt."
Comment · 10 years ago
The NSA cracking the Secure Enclave is not the same as the FBI cracking the Secure Enclave.
Comment · 10 years ago
If you've already got the SQL handy, this is pretty useful.
Comment · 10 years ago
or very little of it for a lot of money. Website design suggests the latter

In the BI market, Tableau is very much one of the low-cost, high volume players. They've done a great job getting into lots of people's hands, the question has always been whether or not they can roll the volume of cheap(ish) single user licenses into large enterprise-type deals.

Comment · 11 years ago
If you'd ever tasted poverty, you might think better about the pursuit of money.
Comment · 11 years ago
Then you're really unfamiliar with the dynamics of domestic abuse. I'd be more surprised if violence was not the result of this.

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