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by billjings 17y ago
If they had misrepresented their deal, then yes. If Goldman Sachs lied about matters material to the valuation of the deal then they've committed fraud.
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by billjings 17y ago
If this is indeed similar to the ProPublica report (referenced in another post in this thread), then this isn't a case of someone in the "opposite side of a trade". The trade would not have existed without the hedge fund committing to buy t
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by billjings 17y ago
Jesus christ! Something in the order form wants to chat with me!
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by billjings 17y ago
I strongly recommend _QED_ by richard feynman.
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by billjings 17y ago
That's incredibly shortsighted. The young are the only people who really do need to insure their health, because by and large they're the only people who don't know how they're going to die yet, or how much it's going to cost. They're the o
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by billjings 17y ago
Yes. It's not always a good thing, either.
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Homeowner's opinions will likely change if they begin to perceive their lenders as taking advantage of that morality.
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by billjings 17y ago
That's part of the issue. Eating slower has been suggested to help losing weight for that reason - it gives your satiety response time to kick in. The issue with calories in minus calories out is not equivocating the word "in", though. It i
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by billjings 17y ago
Part of the craft of programming is expressing a computation or interaction as simply as possible. Now, somehow the original point ( http://prog21.dadgum.com/54.html ) has missed its mark. The original point was this: that for certain kinds
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by billjings 17y ago
I think that you are underestimating the ongoing cost of complexity in a product line. Apple only works to support a limited amount of hardware. This simplifies: - OS development - Hardware development - Hardware design - Software support,
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by billjings 17y ago
It looks like lifetime is specified in hours of life at a high temperature - e.g.: http://www.rubycon.co.jp/en/catalog/e_pdfs/aluminum/e_BXF.pd... Lifetime is specified at 10000hrs at 105deg C. As temperature decreases, lifetime appx doub
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by billjings 17y ago
Land rights are more important than property taxes. I don't think that private property rights can reasonably be called a regulatory barrier.
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by billjings 17y ago
My father and I both enthusiastically tried the sleeptracker when it first came out. I am horrible for waking up in the morning, and this did not help one bit. The article asks why they did not put the alarm in the watch - the sleeptracker
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by billjings 17y ago
It matters because increasingly the programmer may not have either the ability or the desire to add yet another explicit interface onto some class. They may not have the ability because it may be in a library beyond their control. They may
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by billjings 17y ago
This is the modern information economy equivalent of a manic episode.
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by billjings 17y ago
I'm pretty skeptical of the idea that harshly competitive environments have their value systems straight, but it bears mentioning that at Enron traders and deal makers were on the evaluation boards for the risk assessment group.
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by billjings 17y ago
First, I second the notion that switching to another tool is a good idea when performance becomes important. I was doing this by diving down into C years ago, and I have to imagine the toolset has only gotten better since then. Second, you
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by billjings 17y ago
Ordinary medical bills have skyrocketed as well in the current system. I have personally been charged 3 times as much without insurance as I would have with insurance for a basic blood test, with a scheduled appointment. Things are even wor
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by billjings 17y ago
That headline didn't pass the smell test for me, so I decided to do some quick research... who did invent the tractor, anyway? http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/220609/John-Froehl... According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, it