Not to hijack this post, but I'm saddened every time I see anything monte carlo related referred to as the metropolis algorithm. When you're the boss, what you say goes.
For those of you that don't know about Slackware. Slackware is the oldest distro and it is still plenty alive today. When to setup linux on my computer in the early days with other distros (red hat/suse/etc), this would eventually crap up (rpm hell) and give me something unusable. Using Slackware forces you understand how everything works in a linux distro. This lets you fix your own problems.
Low growth causes more income to come from capital, which causes more inequality due to inheritance and the rich getting richer. The solution is a global progressive tax on capital.
There's a paper in the Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine journal titled, "Theranos phenomenon: promises and fallacies" [1]. It says most of the cost are related to overhead and personnel, not technology. Consumables are cheap. Also it is entirely possible that tests are being subsidized with VC money currently. I don't know what they would have to charge to be cash flow positive.
You can also run Alexa from your desktop and integrate Alexa to any other physical device besides the Echo with the Alexa Voice Service. Great for those who want to play with Alexa, but don't want to shell out money for an Echo. Amazon has an easy to follow reference implementation for this. https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...
Fancy socks is a silicon valley thing according to this New York Times article since people normally dress down. If everyone is wearing t-shirt and jeans, socks become your differentiator.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley-...