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What Are Some Aspects of Incarceration That Could Not Possibly Be Guessed by Someone Who Hasn't Experienced It?

Quora | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Law, San Quentin Prison, Imprisonment, Crime, Prison, Prisoners, Punishment, Quora, San Quentin, Crime News
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This question originally appeared on Quora. Eric "Phil" Phillips, San Quentin inmate. One aspect is the amazing amount of talent in prison. There ...

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Why Don't Airlines Award Loyalty Points Based on Dollars Spent Rather Than Miles Flown?

Quora | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Air Travel, Air New Zealand, Jet Blue, Loyalty Programs, Southwest, Quora, Planes, Virgin America, Flying, Flights, Travel News
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This question originally appeared on Quora. Michael McGraw-Herdeg, Microsoft PM (Excel Services). Yes, the legacy US airline model of "if you you ...

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Is "Psychohistory" Possible?

Quora | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Isaac Asimov, The Future, Quora, Science Fiction Books, Science Fiction, Psychohistory, Technology News
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Is it possible and useful to mathematically formalize human behavior on large scales sufficient to probabilistically predict the future? This questio...

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How Has Audi Become So Successful in the Last Couple of Years?

Quora | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Cars, Quora, Audi, Technology News
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This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Daniel Woodard, Marketing and Production for Techs and Startups. Shared parts with VW. Nissan...

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Why Do Hotels Ask How Many People Will Stay in a Room?

Quora | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Hotel Industry, Hotels, Quora, Hotel Management, Hospitality, Hotel, Travel News
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This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Michael Forrest Jones, Beechmont Hotels Corporation. So that no one ends up sleeping on the ...

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What Does It Feel Like to Have Your Spouse Die?

Quora | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Spouse, Marriage, Quora, Widow, Relationships, Love, Love and Relationships, Death, Culture News
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I don't think I will ever forget what he looked like when he died. His head leaned to one side, his neck lacking the strength to support it. He turned pale, then blue, and it was a quiet death. That was the moment he ceased to be the person I had known.

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What Is a Typical Inmate Day Like in San Quentin? What's the Schedule?

Quora | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Prison Reform, Prison System, Prison, California Prisons, Prisoners, Quora, Prisons, Prison Inmates, San Quentin Prison, San Quentin State Prison, Inmates, San Quentin, California Inmates, Crime News
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Although San Quentin State Prison is known for its notorious past, currently it happens to be the most stable and consistent of all the prisons. Here is a typical day for me.

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What Are Some Specific Coping Strategies for Couples Who Are Experiencing the Emotional Pain of Infertility?

Quora | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Quora, Fertility, Fertility Treatments, Infertility, Parents News
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Support your wife. She is being pumped full of hormones and has strange people poking and probing her all over. She is going though far more than you are. Keep her spirits up.

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Why Is February Such a Weak Month for Movies?

Quora | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Quora, Movie-Industry, Films, February, Movies, Hollywood, Movie Sales, Oscars 2012, The Oscars, Movie Ticket Sales, The Artist Best Picture, Entertainment News
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The movie industry is the classic popular definition of insanity in action: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Some of it more or less "works" and proves to the industry it knows what it's doing.

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Am I Missing out by Not Playing Any Video Or Console Games?

Quora | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Quora, Video Games, Entertainment News
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This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by David Cole, Quora Designer. Reasons why you might not be missing out: You consider art or ...

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How Did Craigslist Gain Its Initial Traction?

Quora | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Quora, Craig Newmark, Craigslist.com, Craigslist, Technology News
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According to Craig Newmark, "The thing got traction during its first few years, when it was just my hobby, got substantial traction, as I measure it, in its first few years."

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What's It Like to Play on the Same Basketball Team as Jeremy Lin?

Quora | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Quora, Jeremy Lin Harvard, Jeremy Lin Knicks, Jeremy Lin, Sports News
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After the win, I went up and talked to him after the game, and I was shocked how much taller he was than me. I finally realized he was the real deal. I don't think I've met anyone as humble or as hard working as Jeremy and I'm really glad he's having such success. If anyone deserves this, it's him.

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How Do Tech Companies Name Stuff?

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: 23andme, Quora Tech Names, Video, Mozilla, Twitter, Square, Tech Company Names, Quora, Conference Room Names, Facebook, Tech Names, Technology News

From inventing personal card-readers that let you set up a small business anywhere to mapping our genetic makeup, tech companies do a lot of cool stuf...

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12 Startups With Skyrocketing Valuations

BusinessInsider.com | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Foursquare, Social Startups, Gilt Groupe, Startups, Quora, Most Valuable Startups, Entrepreneurs, Spotify, Technology News

After watching startups like Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon explode in valuation, VCs are now pouring money into the next crop of startups. Valuation...

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What Is It Like to Be a Woman Working in the Tech Industry?

Rebekah Cox | Posted 09.15.2011

Read More: Quora, Women in Tech, Women in Business, Women in Technology, Rebekah Cox, Technology News
Rebekah Cox

Girls are typically raised with kid gloves and rarely receive the hard, direct and tough feedback of their male counterparts.

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9 Mind Blowing Facts

Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Quora, Mind Blowing Facts, Super Mario Bros, Factoids, Turritopsis-Nutricula, Technology News

Is there such thing as an immortal animal? What's the relationship between the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros? Quora users have put together a ...

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Amazon Troubles Take Down Top Sites

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Reddit, Amazon Ec2 Down, Foursquare, Foursquare Down, Quora Down, Amazon Ec2, Ec2, Hootsuite, Reddit Down, Amazon Ec2 Problems, Quora, Hootsuite Down, Moby Down, Amazon, Amazon Cloud, Ec2 Down, Amazon Cloud Down, Reddit Is Down, Amazon Hosting, Technology News

Amazon's affordable cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Web hosting service has attracted many popular startups in the social media space, and tec...

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Google +1: Facebook, You've Been "Checked"

Pedro L. Rodriguez | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Google, Twitter, Ftc, Google Buzz, Google Search, +1, Google +1, Quora, Buzz, Federal Trade Commission, Facebook, Social Search, Technology News
Pedro L. Rodriguez

Yesterday, Google announced the arrival of +1, a tool that adds an element of social networking to the company's search engine. If you think it bears any similarity to Facebook's "Like" button, you are not alone.

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5 Great New Social Media Strategies

Anne Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Linkedin, Small Business, Twitter, Social Networking, Meetup, Youtube, Yelp, Quora, Facebook, Business Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Tips, Social Media Strategies, Social Media Advice, Small Business America, Business News
Anne Hill

For the past several years, conventional wisdom has been that having a blog was the most important tool for your business. But blogs are not for everyone, nor are Facebook Pages, and now they don't have to be.

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Fred Wilson: 'Marketing Is For Startups With Sucky Products'

Fred Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Games, Foursquare, Small Business, Twitter, Entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School, Facebook, Engineering, Customer Acquisition, Small Business America, Soundcloud, Union-Square-Ventures, Zynga, Harvard University, Online Games, Advertising, Quora, Marketing, Startups, Fred Wilson, Entrepreneurship, Customers, Business News
Fred Wilson

I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks or when you make so much profit on every marginal customer that it would be crazy to not spend a bit of that profit acquiring more of them (coke, zynga, bud, viagra).

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Another Internet Startup Bubble? Depends Where You're Standing

Roger Ehrenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Seed Capital, Huffington Post Aol, Twitter, American Online, Consumer Internet, Venture Capital, Facebook, Secondmarket, Investing, Ycombinator, Aol, Groupon, Venture-Investing, Quora, Youtube, Startups, Fred Wilson, Small Business America, Business News
Roger Ehrenberg

Depending upon where you're standing, the tone of the market looks very different. Froth or famine? Both can be observed in nature.

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Sat Dishes and Revolution: Why Al Jazeera Matters There -- and Here

Tom Watson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Twitter, Facebook, Al Jazeera, Cnn, Ted Turner, Charlie Sheen, Fios, Cablevision, El Abidine Ben Ali, Brian Stelter, Nancy Scola, Jasmine Revolution, Evgeny Morozov, Tahrir Square, Time Warners, Quora, Drudge Report, Mohamed Nanabhy, Media News
Tom Watson

You won't find it on Time Warner or Cablevision, but Al Jazeera's English language television service is laying claim to the viewing loyalty of news-hungry, media-obsessed Westerners.

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Let's Talk About Quora

Kety Esquivel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media Marketing, Social Media, Quora, Yahoo Questions, Social Networks, Technology News
Kety Esquivel

Quora feels a bit like Facebook, a bit like Twitter and provides answers to questions like Yahoo! answers. Yet the feel of the community is quite distinct.

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The 10 Biggest Trends In Silicon Valley

Bill Aulet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Mit, Groupon, Incubators, Silicon Valley, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Quora, Startups, Venture Capital, Accel Partners, Facebook, China, Investors, Small Business America, Business News
Bill Aulet

Each year, the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and Sloan School of Management travel to Silicon Valley to meet with dozens of companies, incubators, and v...

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Education 2.0: How Can We Encourage Entrepreneurship?

Rachel Sterne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Foursquare, Twitter, Columbia University, Meetup, Columbia Business School, Quora, Youtube, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, Technology News
Rachel Sterne

I'm excited to introduce Social Media and Entrepreneurship, a new course for Columbia MBA candidates in Spring 2011.

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