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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
In answer to the obvious question: How did he think he would get away with this? What was his end game? The only answers are (1) people don't commit crimes unless they think they will get away with it - everyone in prison had a plan fo
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Learned to program assembly language on punch cards to run on the IBM 370. One line per card - just like in the story - and you don't want to fall down and drop your cards....imagine trying to reorganize 10000 lines of code (I like the
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
She doesn't say what happened to the glass negative. surprised it wasn't preserved
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
We can't go back (and who would want to) - the challenge for a modern parent is to give the kids as much rope as humanly possible. It's tough and can be terrifying - when are they old enough to cross the big street two blocks from
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
"two states eventually opted out: Hawaii and Arizona. Hawaii abandoned the law in 1967 because, well, it just didn’t make sense. One of the benefits of Daylight Saving Time is that there’s more daylight in the evening. But in Hawaii, t
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Journalists and their readers rarely have the ability to break down these economic principles...and if the marketers themselves don't care, why should anyone (except the stockholders, who make less money from the company).
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Under game theory, the best response is tit for tat - it would presumably help for the entire industry https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tit-for-tat.asp
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
and pink insulation foam https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/774...
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
The distinction between dressing up and not dressing up is not as big as those who dress with intention and purpose and those who don't. I've seen people wear very expensive suits but they look terrible because they are illfitting
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
always be careful of the following construction "I don't understand X, therefore I will assume that it's stupid." Better would be "I don't understand X, therefore I will assume that I'm stupid (or under ed
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
This is also why training often sucks: the teachers write the presentation not for the people sitting in the class (who are often required to attend), but for the people who run the training office or the supervisors who order the training.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
this is a logic problem that seems intuitive - but isn't. You are given 3 doors and told there is a prize behind one. You pick. Before you open your door, the host opens one of the remaining....leaving two closed doors: the one you pi
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The Monty Hall Problem(montyhallproblem.com)
2 points by Balanceinfinity 7y ago|1 comments
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
seems that the real source of the stress is that you're screwing up something that isn't really yours to screw up.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Seems like any one data point would be worthless. If I like "Sleepless in Seattle" (which I didn't) it might be because of Romcom (no) or because of Ryan (no) or because of Hanks (yes). I wonder if there's a cluster of 1
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Last civil war soldier died in 1956 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson ) Lots of people walking around who could have known a Civil war veteran firsthand.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
"These results suggest that increased provision of interstate highways and major urban roads is unlikely to relieve congestion of these roads." Building more roads cannot alleviate traffic congestion - it's a myth that they c
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“fundamental law of highway congestion”(pubs.aeaweb.org)
1 points by Balanceinfinity 7y ago|1 comments
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
When was your last vacation? Where did you go? When was the last time you thought about changing jobs? Why? When you joined this company, what were your goals? How many of them have you met?
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
In Washington DC on 9/11 - crisp autumn day. First thing I heard was when someone poked their head into my office and said a plane had hit the twin towers. I imagined some idiot in a Cessna. Things spiraled from there - from my office
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
For some reason I had thought the impact crater was in the US - perhaps that was a different impact
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Have to say that the binder clip is a good deal of an advancement on the paperclip....and it only has three parts, two identical.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Two variables control the image: shutter speed and f-stop (how wide the aperture is open). The higher the shutter speed the more you can stop action (like a baseball in the air), and the higher the F-stop, the greater the depth of field (m
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Fair point - yes, but only to a certain extent. "There is no denying that a decent image resolution is quintessential to achieve professional results, but it would be misleading to trust in the resolution as the sole indicator for a ca
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
It's all about the glass. If you're taking a picture of your latte from 6 inches for display on a camera, it really doesn't matter. But if you want a picture of your son's soccer game that you can show on a TV or laptop,
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Have to say, I liked the original in the floor console. It wasn't "fair" except in the sense that the chance was evenly distributed, so when I was playing against my friend, over a period of 2-3 hours, the positive and negati
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Impossible for me to say how to find meaning in your life. It's a path each of us is on. But you can't find that path in front of a monitor or at work. Turn it off and go for a walk. The Buddha said that the purpose in life is to
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
The single most important lesson is that: no one is a good writer. If you read something that's well written it's because it was well edited. The biggest mistake writers make is they think they're done when they finish writin
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Step 1: TAKE YOUR VACATION!! - every minute allowed, every year. If they won't give you a chance to recharge your batteries, look elsewhere.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
What amazes me is that at some point he didn't try and take his winnings off the table - convert to pounds or dollars - and head for the hills.

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