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by dominik 18y ago
An excerpt illustrating the value of underpromise, overdeliver : "For a store that aims to give you a bargain, it also excels at customer service. Here's something that happens often: I'll buy an item on Monday afternoon and be told to exp
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by dominik 18y ago
Interesting excerpt: The hoaxer, it seemed, had exploited the trickle-up nature of online information flow. The blog comments fooled the blogs, the blogs fooled the news sites, and the news sites fooled the magazines. When the Times came to
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by dominik 18y ago
Good catch. Sorry, I shouldn't have used influences . Thanks for pointing it out. Gates used the word explain . At about 12:50, he said "This chart takes four different factors and asks how much do they they explain teaching quality?"
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How Amazon.com is thriving in a horrendous retail climate(slate.com)
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Inside the ingenious hoax that fooled the British sports press(slate.com)
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by dominik 18y ago
The key lies in the phrase "mutual self-giving." Catholics see sex as a mutual gift of self between spouses. Through the language of their bodies, the husband tells the wife "I am yours," the wife tells the husband "I am yours." As a gift
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by dominik 18y ago
Excellent dissection of my analogy. I think where we differ is that I'd argue to the theoretical friend that she should not commit suicide, and I wouldn't try the 'in the alternative, if you do decide to kill yourself at least don't kill an
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Espresso is the ideal stimulant for the creative mind(timeshighereducation.co.uk)
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by dominik 18y ago
Enlightening talk. On teachers, Gates says that after 3 years, a teachers' performance generally doesn't change. He put up a graph of what influences teachers' performance. By far the greatest effect came from 'past performance,' distantly
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by dominik 18y ago
Well put. Dr. Krauss even said that he didn't need to bother to understand theologians in the article itself: "I began my lecture with the somewhat glib remark that it was important for the theologians to listen to me, but not as important
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by dominik 18y ago
How is the Church "ignoring science"? She may analyze science and apply her moral reasoning and reach a conclusion that some scientists don't like -- but that's hardly ignoring science.
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by dominik 18y ago
What you describe as the Catholic viewpoint isn't the Catholic viewpoint... instead it looks to be a variety of Manichaeism. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeanism#Theology Catholics don't view the body as evil -- they view the bo
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by dominik 18y ago
"if people are not going to follow your edicts you may as well make sure that they do so in the healthiest way possible" I'm not sure I understand, so I want to make this clear. Are you saying that "If people do not wish to follow the Churc
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by dominik 18y ago
The article's author, Dr. Krauss, a theoretical physicist, says, in this first paragraph: "In December, with great fanfare, the Vatican released Dignitas Personae, its latest report on bioethics. Sad to say, the document demonstrates once m
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by dominik 18y ago
One of the greatest tragedies of our time is happening right now in Africa, and if it was up to the Catholic church it would be a lot bigger than it is already. (HIV/AIDS spread because of a lack of / refusal to use condoms). Incorrect. I
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by dominik 18y ago
A medium of exchange, not an exchange itself. A medium: "a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information." Money enables the storage and communication of information about exchanges, as posited by your example. As for
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by dominik 18y ago
Wait a second, isn't inflation = expansion of the money supply, i.e. monetary inflation? Price inflation comes later as a direct consequence of monetary inflation, as effects propagate through the economy. Also, how could money "be withdraw
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by dominik 18y ago
The main goal being getting money circulating again? But why should that be a main goal? Why have money changing hands for the sake of changing hands? Isn't money just a medium of exchange -- a go-between, a currency -- used to convert one
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by dominik 18y ago
"Keynes suggested stuffing bills into bottles and burying them down mineshafts." Can someone explain how such an action would help the economy?
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by dominik 18y ago
To "Which comes first, the product or the marketing?" I answer: Yes.
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by dominik 18y ago
Quote: "Abraham Lincoln is the only president to hold a patent for an invention. He invented a tool to lift riverboats stuck on sandbars." No one ever manufactured it, however.
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by dominik 18y ago
I tried using Gmail Tasks for about two or three weeks. I transferred all my tasks into it. Ye Olde List o' Annoyances: #1: I could only view one list at a time. I like having a 'big picture' view. Plus, the default-in-Gmail view was tiny.
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by dominik 18y ago
Skimming, it seems the essence of the Gutenberg method lies in: 1. Before class, Prof gives students an outline of the reading (a 'notesheet'), highlighting key points 2. Students do reading with guidance from the outline 3. Prof uses class
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by dominik 18y ago
I "closed" my account when Beacon happened in late 2007 (closed = deleted all my friends and set my account to 'deactivated'; Facebook won't let you truly delete your account). I had first joined in the early days, in March 2004. I thought
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by dominik 18y ago
So long as poll viewers remember that Facebook's audience isn't a representative sample of the human race.
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by dominik 18y ago
I like using both Pandora and last.fm through PandoraFM: http://pandorafm.real-ity.com/ That way I get last.fm's recommendation to provide seed songs/artists for new Pandora stations.
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by dominik 18y ago
Very true; I should clarified I meant technically.
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by dominik 18y ago
Beautiful, beautiful blog. The photography, the writing. The author's humanity -- her soul, if you will -- comes across and that makes it entirely win.
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by dominik 18y ago
Out of curiosity, how does Hulu.com prevent its videos from being copy-able?
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by dominik 18y ago
I found the Hacker's Diet a useful reference for both diet and exercise. I found its engineering-minded explanation of how the body uses food resonated with me. (I lost about 50 lbs. in 6 months). Link: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/

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