JeffL

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by JeffL 13y ago
I know that reality is always more complicated than theories attempting to simplify things, but Germany was officially an empire, with an emperor who had the power to declare war and appoint the chancellor. The Reichstag had no power to di
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by JeffL 13y ago
It's really hard to see anything big starting up in Europe, since all the countries are now officially democracies, and those that are at the corrupt end of the spectrum are not the most powerful. R. J. Rummels arguments about how dem
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by JeffL 13y ago
One time I had almost 1 million extra dollars show up in my Waterhouse Brokerage account. I thought, "huh, that's interesting." It disappeared 4 days later.
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by JeffL 13y ago
I suppose there is always a small amount of hope that this could actually stick?
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by JeffL 13y ago
goproblems.com is great for practice
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by JeffL 13y ago
Bout 4 years ago, I was spending about $4000/mo on Adwords, with some nice results. About 2% CTR on the ads, most of which were banner ads on the content network, average about 20 cents PPC. About 50% of the people clicking on the ad
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by JeffL 13y ago
It comes out looking a lot like voxel stuff, but it can only be rendered from the front. One cool advantage, though, is that the artist can bake in shadows.
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Review: Tesla Motors’ all-electric Model S is fast—but is it a good car?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by JeffL 13y ago|0 comments
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by JeffL 13y ago
Yes. I was going to say that people should just get up earlier and quit work earlier to get the extra daylight, but practically speaking, I think doing that without changing the clocks is much harder for most.
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by JeffL 13y ago
I definitely do think you've identified a problem that needs solving, and your app is looking nice so far. One thing that I've noticed for pick up soccer in the Bay Area is that there are a lot of games listed on meetup.com, but p
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by JeffL 13y ago
If a bank gains extra money in the vault, won't it lower the interest rate it's offering on loans to try to attract a credit worthy borrower so the money isn't just sitting there?
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by JeffL 13y ago
See the chapter in Economics in One Lesson about how rent control makes everything worse. http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap18p1.html
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by JeffL 13y ago
I think there's more to it than just the ratios. It's also that women are the selectors, and are more picky than men. If you line up ten men and ten woman along two parallel number lines, each numbered 1-10, and then perform sim
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by JeffL 13y ago
Our MMO game, Star Sonata, is also in the same sort of genre, though it's top down-ish more like Star Control, and we have a lot of economic emphasis on building colonies, stations, and automated trade slaves that run your economic emp
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Suspicious Device Shuts Union Square in San Francisco(nbcbayarea.com)
1 points by JeffL 13y ago|0 comments
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by JeffL 13y ago
The ones I've had, even when you hit the "hush" button, it still makes a loud chirp every 60 seconds to let you know that it's hushed, but still detects smoke. This chirp scares the crap out of my dog.
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by JeffL 13y ago
Having the will to train?
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by JeffL 13y ago
You can get a cheap little plastic thing called a "Tick Twister" at the pet store, and it is awesome. I've had to remove plenty of ticks from my dog, and a few from people and this tool is invaluable.
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by JeffL 13y ago
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt is an amazing book, and there's a free PDF available: http://mises.org/books/economics_in_one_lesson_hazlitt.pdf
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by JeffL 13y ago
But if you don't answer their questions, what's the chance that you end up on the no fly list?
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by JeffL 13y ago
One piece of advice that I really liked was in David Kelley's book about the virtue of benevolence: treat strangers like acquaintances, treat acquaintances like friends, and treat friends like family. Building relationships with people is
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Intertrust Sues Apple, Charging Patent Violations(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by JeffL 14y ago|0 comments
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by JeffL 14y ago
If people put their money in the bank or the market, then companies are spending the money instead of the consumers. The companies tend to spend the money on either capital goods, which still need to be produced just like consumer goods, o
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by JeffL 14y ago
The wikipedia info sounds a bit less promising than the claims made in the linked article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol#Dental_care
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by JeffL 14y ago
But in practice, the vast majority of quality jobs are 40 hours per week minimum, and its somewhat difficult to get a comparably good job for less. If I had to guess, I would guess that nearly everyone I know with a full time job would tak
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by JeffL 14y ago
Even under barter and trade, there is profit. To go with the GP's example, one persona valued having his trees pruned more than he valued the time he spent upgrading the computer, and vice versa. Both parties profited and ended up better
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by JeffL 14y ago
Maybe they should stop advertising with Facebook?
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by JeffL 14y ago
I honestly have no idea which solar cell stories to pay attention to anymore. They are so abundant, and it seems like we never get any follow ups. Does someone with expert knowledge care to comment about if this story is more significant t
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by JeffL 14y ago
We used to require an email for signing up for our game, but when trying to actually email people, nearly half the emails provided turned out to be fake or bounce for some reason. My takeaway from that is that people don't want to give out
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by JeffL 14y ago
Est delivery Jul 2013? Seems a bit optimistic for a game of such scope.

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