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by ajscherer 17y ago
I guess hyperbole comes easy when you are investing $100 million in something. I found the slide with Mouse on one side and Magic on the other pretty humorous as well. Referring to Steve Jobs as "Supreme Commander of the Rebel Forces" is d
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This is a very short piece. I have read it a dozen times now. I still cannot follow the argument at all. "Experts can do some things better than you can." This assumes I am not an expert, but okay. "People want beautiful things that work
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Why in the world would someone spend 6-8 hours listening to a piece of music they dislike just so they can like it? If I already have thousands of pieces of music I enjoy listening to, why should I put any effort into liking even more musi
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If nothing else I think we can be certain of one fact regarding barefoot running: it is a very appealing story. How many publications that don't typically cover running have written the same story now, and how many times has it made the fr
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I found this page on Brooks website very interesting. They invited an assortment running "experts" from various backgrounds to give their opinion on barefoot running. http://www.brooksrunning.com/About+Brooks/On+Barefoot+Runnin... The co
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How can a corpse deploy wealth? If they wanted to do something with that wealth, which I agree they have the right to do, wouldn't it make sense to do it while they still have the ability to have thoughts? It makes more sense to me for the
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It seems like one of the least evil taxes to me. $3.5 million or more worth of assets are absolutely irrelevant to a corpse. So the great evil is that the descendants of someone who amassed a great fortune only get $1.5+ million that they
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I don't follow your argument. Are you saying the government's failure to prevent those three things from happening somehow proves regulation is worthless? Or are you just pointing out that individuals in the private sector were able to fi
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The article doesn't say foreign students found Ms. Miller's history/rhetoric class stimulating. It says they work harder and take the class more seriously. That certainly matches what I've observed regarding foreign students. Could it be
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Type these two expressions into a calculator or spreadsheet: ((1.5 - 1.5) * (1.5 - 1))/(1.5 - 1.5) (1.5 - 1) Did you get the same answer? If not then there must either a bug in your calculator/spreadsheet or in wolfram alpha.
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I don't see any reason to think a company like Dell or Sony would be well positioned to create an operating system. What software have they created that suggests they could do it? If Windows is so unsatisfactory doesn't that suggest that
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Drag down a few more cells and use a difference table on the resulting sequence.
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I don't think they are saying that a blog is not news, I think the issue is that (in their opinion) a consumer can reasonably expect that a newspaper or magazine will receive samples from the manufacturer to review, but a consumer would not
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He dismisses hard work because it exists at all income levels, yet intelligence also exists at all income levels and he considers it the dominant factor. He needs to demonstrate that intelligence is more correlated to present wealth than w
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They are different groups of people. We have a system whereby we are required to purchase additional days of life at any imaginable cost for those nearing the end. We also have a system whereby younger, healthier people receive care throu
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You also get more than just the content (and the medium) when you purchase software: a) Peace of mind that the software won't harm your computer. There are situations where it does harm your computer, but at least you have someone to blame
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Those people are definitely aberrations, especially if they have managed to keep the weight off for 5 or more years. Also, isn't the second paragraph of your comment doing the exact thing you were criticizing in the first (using "anecdotes
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The random person element of your thought experiment strikes me as pretty important because cost is one of the only ways I can think of to measure technological progress. Simply picking two specific technologies from the same sector and th
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All the blog posts about various internet phenomena making me dumber are making me dumber.
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I with you that it is a problem of incentives, but I disagree that it has much to do with managers desiring more employees to increase their clout. Simpler explanations exist. If a government manager fires an employee, what does she gain?
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I prefer the taste of conventionally grown produce. It is difficult to measure taste, but I haven't seen any blind taste tests resulting in a clear winner either way. The only convincing argument I have seen in favor of organic food is the
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I don't think the author did a very good job of making the case that people are thinking less due to the web. "Sometimes you need to get a second book on a subject and that gives you time to think" is not a satisfactory substitute for actu