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by ahi 12y ago
You reminded me of a classic DailyWTF: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Special-Delivery.aspx TL;DR Coal futures trader accidentally takes delivery of coal barges at his harbor district office building.
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by ahi 12y ago
The article referenced doesn't seem to support your statement.
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by ahi 12y ago
There's a version of that story on the wall of most Jimmy John's franchises.
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by ahi 12y ago
Bacteria in the soil. One of the reasons Biosphere 2 fell apart.
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by ahi 12y ago
I wonder if some of the disparity in junior vs senior pay is elated to deregulation. When the airlines were tightly regulated 6 figure pilot salaries were very common. Pilots from that era are all retired by now, but many of the senior pilo
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by ahi 12y ago
Depends on industry. I am not familiar with airline unions, but in unregulated industries unions can strike pretty much whenever they want provided they are willing to risk scabs or endless litigation.
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“Chicken” | A Game Played as a Child and by some ISPs with the Internet(blog.level3.com)
3 points by ahi 12y ago|0 comments
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by ahi 12y ago
In my neck of the woods, Detroit metro, most of the companies using recruiters are clueless megacorps. For the dev unit or subsidiary looking to hire there is very little difference between going through a recruiter and their own HR. Edit:
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by ahi 12y ago
There are still some small cities in the midwest that are both cheap and walkable. Look for college towns for cities that arent completely rundown nd rusted away.
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by ahi 13y ago
I use freshbooks but mostly just for invoicing clients. I understand they have more advanced accounting features that I don't have a need for since it's just me doing solo consulting.
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by ahi 13y ago
Even true classified information can cause problems if overvalued. The questions seem to be rather general predictions so publicly available geopolitical context likely matters more than any individual bit of inside information.
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by ahi 13y ago
I went to undergrad with quite a few future CIA analysts. You should not overestimate the average intelligence of CIA analysts. No doubt they have some brilliant people, but you shouldn't be surprised that amateurs with Google News out
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by ahi 13y ago
Many times on amazon i have found the same products from their marketplace vendors that cost the same with shipping as the prime product with "free shipping". With the exception of books which nobody can compete with on price, and
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by ahi 13y ago
Outside of a few programs most tenured profs dont make anywhere near 120k. In my area, UMich is 80-100 and 2nd tier schools like Eastern Michigan pay 50-70. Getting a phd in most liberal arts fields does not pay, even if you manage to avoid
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Hewlett-Packard Discloses Accounting Errors at Company It Bought(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by ahi 13y ago|0 comments
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by ahi 13y ago
Fortunately, doctors can still fiddle around the edges. My 96 year old grandmother went into the hospital last Thursday. After some tests it was concluded she would have a couple more months with rehab or maybe a couple weeks without. We de
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by ahi 13y ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^ixic Bernanke's magic. TC articles should probably be autokilled.
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by ahi 13y ago
It seems the rest of the world is coming to the realization that they are merely conquered provinces in the US empire.
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by ahi 13y ago
Does it matter? What would the FBI do with them?
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by ahi 13y ago
This is wrong. Providing training isnt enough. "The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;" http://ww
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by ahi 13y ago
For every buyer/seller that knows what they want and how much they want pay/get, there are hundreds that have no understanding of the market or homeownership and need serious handholding. I went to a realtor with the house I wante
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by ahi 13y ago
I closed on a house 6 months ago. My realtor was only good for dealing with problems he and the seller's agent created. The problem I found was that no one in the process can be trusted. It doesn't matter if it's a bad deal (
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by ahi 13y ago
The original joke didnt need an apology as it was clearly directed at the screwed up morality of games, ie rape only matters when it is part of a quest. Everything PA did after that was stupid and offensive.
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by ahi 13y ago
This became an issue when I applied for a mortgage recently. I needed my father to cosign to make it go through. I make more than him, and I currently have 3 paying clients so I can't be more than 1/3 fired at a time, but apparent
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by ahi 13y ago
Maybe the hosting companies are simply more likely to detect a breach. Not a happy thought I know.
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by ahi 13y ago
Stock trading halted after this was published? Did this article beat a planned press release to the punch? If you traded this news you might have had a good day.
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by ahi 13y ago
Schumpeter died in 1950. "Our Schumpeter columnist and his colleagues consider business, finance and management, in a blog named after the economist Joseph Schumpeter"
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by ahi 13y ago
Same company now.
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Beware Bait and Switching WP Engine: A Case Study in Devolution(nakedcapitalism.com)
4 points by ahi 13y ago|0 comments
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by ahi 14y ago
At least here in Michigan, DTE Energy is pushing efficiency and solar. Part of this is a legislated requirement, but I think the big motivator is how the regulator calculates their profit margin. AFAIK, they don't make their margin on selli

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