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Submission + - Amazon.com pricing algorithm lists book at $23M (seattlepi.com)

Submitted by leek on Monday April 25, 2011 @09:23PM

leek writes: An Amazon.com pricing algorithm which lets sellers set prices based on other sellers' prices led to a positive feedback loop, causing the biology text The Making of A Fly to reach $23M. Biologist Micheal Eisen talks about it on his Blog. The prices were reset but are back up to $976.98.

Submission + - Pro-Filesharing Essay Wins Ethics Competition

Submitted by leek on Sunday February 21, 2010 @02:46PM

leek writes: Kamal Dhillon, a senior at Balmoral Hall School, has won the 2010 Glassen Ethics Competition by persuasively arguing that filesharing is not wrong, just illegal.

Comment Golfing (Score 1) 124

by leek on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @01:20PM (#26983553) Attached to: Whither the 19th IOCCC?

Maybe they're out playing Perl Golf.

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