dvvarf

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by dvvarf 15y ago
So the relevant qualifier to my statement above is top 50 institutions in the country. Florida isn't among them. To make the qualifier more precise, I was thinking of institutions that are members of the Consortium on Financing Higher Educa
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by dvvarf 15y ago
One thing that gets lost in most of these debates is the fact that many students don't pay the sticker price that universities advertise. At most of the top 50 universities in the US, something like 50% of students receive some sort of fina
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Expanding Financial Sector Depleting Pool of High-Growth Founders(kauffman.org)
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by dvvarf 16y ago
Not familiar with the programs at either university, but consider that Stanford is one of the wealthiest private institutions in the world against the budget crisis that the state of California is currently facing. Financial security goes a
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by dvvarf 16y ago
Just curious, where did you acquire this knowledge? Is there somewhere that I can read up on the industry, or did you learn all this from experience?
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by dvvarf 16y ago
Michael Lewis gets amazing access for the pieces he writes about finance. Not too technical, but he really gets into the characters that are involved with different parts of the industry. He's also one of the lucky writers who can write abo
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Intel Buys Infineon Wireless Radio Chip Unit for $1.4 Billion(bloomberg.com)
2 points by dvvarf 16y ago|0 comments
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by dvvarf 16y ago
Why can't I rent ebooks? All I want is to pay $X to take out Y books at a time like I do with Netflix for movies. Who do I need to talk to get this done? I'd love to do it myself, but the Kindle is proprietary device.
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by dvvarf 16y ago
An interesting related piece about Nokia's strategy: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/07/obituar...
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by dvvarf 16y ago
This is the Ruef paper if anyone is interested. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1519766 The study of social networks is incredibly fascinating, but the discipline is definitely in a nascent state. I think one of the biggest issues is that the
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by dvvarf 16y ago
There is absolutely nothing about methodology on the ASCI site. Here is their official commentary on the results: http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task... The MSNBC pretty much lifts sentences from there. This is a
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by dvvarf 17y ago
you know, it's funny. most people would put the start of economic thought ~1776 when Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations. That means it's been around less than 250 years. Sure it may not describe physical processes, but economics does tr
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by dvvarf 17y ago
The original article. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/exploitation_elle_mag_h...
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by dvvarf 17y ago
Well first off, everyone should read the New Yorker article referenced. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_... The issue at hand is not teacher compensation, but the fact that no mechanism exists to weed out ineff
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by dvvarf 17y ago
I think I'll be there. I just joined up a few days ago, but this could be fun.
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by dvvarf 17y ago
When does the author talk about double sided coins? The example is based on the premise that the coin is fair and each toss is independent of the others.
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by dvvarf 17y ago
Wired had a writeup of this guy last year. Pretty interesting: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/02/blind_hacker?...
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by dvvarf 17y ago
Fun fact about that picture (if I've identified it correctly): It was taken for Warren Buffett's annual Christmas card. After the photo was taken, the Hooters girls all fawned over Bill Gates, leaving Buffett behind.