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  2. One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia

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    One Laptop per Child ( OLPC) was a non-profit initiative that operated from 2005 to 2014 with the goal of transforming education for children around the world by creating and distributing educational devices for the developing world, and by creating software and content for those devices. When the program launched, the typical retail price for ...

  3. Asus - Wikipedia

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    Asus was founded in Taipei in 1989 [13] by T.H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao, [14] all four having previously worked at Acer as hardware engineers. At this time, Taiwan had yet to establish a leading position in the computer hardware business. Intel Corporation would supply any new processors to more established companies like IBM ...

  4. List of Asus routers - Wikipedia

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    Asus encourages and supports this use and advertises several routers as particularly suitable for DD-WRT [1] including especially the RT-N16 gigabit router. See details on compatibility below. The RT-N13U/B, RT-N12, RT-N10+, WL-520GU and WL-520GC are also advertised as DD-WRT compatible though do not ship with this operating system.

  5. Sandy Bresler, Agent to Jack Nicholson for Six Decades, Dies ...

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    Sandy Bresler, who served as Jack Nicholson’s agent for more than 60 years, died Thursday in Santa Monica. He was 87. Bresler founded the independent boutique agency Bresler-Kelly & Associates ...

  6. Has one of the world’s rarest whales washed up on a beach ...

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    July 16, 2024 at 5:03 PM. New Zealand's Department of Conservation. It’s a creature of the deep so rare that there’s never been a recorded live sighting, and since the 1800s only six samples ...

  7. Buy one, get one free - Wikipedia

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    Buy one, get one free. " Buy one, get one free " or " two for the price of one " is a common form of sales promotion. Economist Alex Tabarrok has argued that the success of this promotion lies in the fact that consumers value the first unit significantly more than the second one. So compared to a seemingly equivalent "Half price off" promotion ...

  8. Based on a simple look at recent history, Jared Goff might ...

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    The Lions believe Goff is one of the best QBs in football, based on that deal. Also, by now most NFL fans are aware that Goff is much better indoors. He had a 108.9 passer rating in dome games ...

  9. Hyperbolic discounting - Wikipedia

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    Formal model. Hyperbolic discounting is mathematically described as. where g ( D) is the discount factor that multiplies the value of the reward, D is the delay in the reward, and k is a parameter governing the degree of discounting (for example, the interest rate ). This is compared with the formula for exponential discounting: