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Reminds me of the initial release of the Wii. Seems like a strategy to create scarcity and increase demand.


Possible, but Nintendo do not seem like the sort of company that needs to use direct marketing tactics to sell their products.


Doesn't need, but - if it leads to increase in sales or brand exposure (via increase of press covering the situation) - it may as well engage in such tactics anyway.


But the weird thing about the brand exposure is that before this sale, there was zero advertising - it was all word-of-mouth, without Reddit I wouldn't have even known this thing existed. Nintendo didn't do any advertising in Australia I saw, nothing on TV, at the shops or on buses like it happened with the regular consoles. I don't get it, and press coverage is still minimal outside of the circles that knew about this thing already (tech press).


It'd be interesting to see an AI trained using HN, ingesting content of posted links and comments.


Original paper "Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields":

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1506/1506.06668.pdf


It would be cool to see a Napster film. There was an entertaining documentary about it, titled Downloaded, that was released in 2013. Link to full documentary: http://on.aol.com/video/downloaded---full-documentary-film-5...


Thank you!


Self-driving cars cannot get here soon enough. Police interactions as a result of driver error will be obsolete.


True. The police will simply stop your car remotely, or redirect it to wherever they want to interact with you, based on whatever information about you and your driving patterns the car is required to provide to law enforcement.

But yes, legitimate issues with driver error will be a thing of the past.


Makes me think of the Michael Jordan quote:

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."



Aaaaand there goes my productivity.


I love the minimalist design, it's a truly beautiful product. Congrats!


This is why I love HN. Great list!


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