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I'd be interested in mass producing these phones and measuring distributions of times before a phone is stolen in different cities in the world.


Do you think that market cap of Yahoo was increased by 151% in four years as a direct result of the number of hours worked? Could it have been done if she worked 50% less hours? A difficult question to answer with evidence.


> Do you think that market cap of Yahoo was increased by 151% in four years as a direct result of the number of hours worked? No. I believe it's probably true that she is compensated, in part, because of her brand which is highly associated with her dedication to working long hours.

I hedged quite a lot in my OP to try and convey that this was the only part that I was confident of.


Can this be applied to an electric piano to get a similar type of colour in the sound?


>Can this be applied to an electric piano to get a similar type of colour in the sound?

Every electronic "stage" piano I've owned has had an option to modify the tuning, at minimum allowing you to choose between equal, well, meantone, pythagorean.

I remember one Yamaha I owned even had the option to customise the tuning yourself. Can't remember the model number, it cost a decent-ish chunk of change, around 800 GBP about 15 or so years ago.


Yes! With the Scala file format: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

Might be a little tricky to set up, though, since only a few DAWs and plugins support it.


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