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by elgenie 8y ago
The difference is between a seemingly "successful company" and a "successful investment". The latter requires the company not to just make enough money to cover its ongoing expenses (variable costs), but also to cover th
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I'm a bit skeptical. They looked at scientists (citations), artists (painting prices), and film directors (imdb ratings). The question is whether the works that they're looking at are actually independent. For scientists, it'
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… is the first paper cited in the abstract of the paper in the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0315-8
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The research is using prices to determine the "best" paintings for an artist, but that means that their data for art is basically determined by the not-exactly-quality-based forces involved in pricing art. "Van Gogh painted t
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From the article: > Features like real-time electronic station signs, dedicated bus lanes and traffic signal priority will be added as construction continues. The question is whether dedicated lanes for 100% of the route is a launch blo
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And yet you're paying five to six figures in opportunity cost either way.
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> There's a reason why there's a plethora of transcriptions of "مُحمّد‎" after all. There's a plethora of transcriptions into (more) phonetic alphabets because there are a plethora of regionalized pronunciations
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> In the Starbucks case, Mr. Amaya said that the court found the chain “just relied on the idea that a few minutes doesn’t mean anything, and the Court said that sort of attitude won’t fly in California.” The decision's not too surp
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"claims to be", perhaps.
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That movie was about robots fighting monsters and was named for its intended market as much as its subject matter: expecting complicated dialog given that seems ambitious.
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It seems like it would be more accurate to say that the orthographic system was the lingua franca. The characters were used to communicate across vast distances between people that would not be able to talk at all to one another if sitting
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Don't forget the Viking raids and settlements. They left a good number of words behind in modern English.
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Katakana [1] is one of the two syllabary writing systems in Japanese, with Hiragana [2] being the other. IIRC katakana is the one where every syllable starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel, so transliterated loan words with consecut
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Sure, they can make that argument and then attempt to try to sell "climate change isn't real" in a fact-focused forum. That's not going to go too well for them. The Administator's discretion to get out of giving a w
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That wouldn't be the issue here. The question is not whether the federal government gets to set standards at all under the Commerce Clause. Instead, the issue here would be whether the Act of Congress that specifically governs air ef
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Still, I can't see anyone thinking that the Ethiopian central government had a less firm hold on Eritrea than Mogadishu has on Somaliland.
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The article isn't quite correct there. CA only has a by-name carveout for non-public-road vehicles. For cars, they get the same automatically granted formality of a waiver to exceed the standards that any other state can. Indeed, somet
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This is just nonsensical saber-rattling without Congressional action that stands approximately zero chance of taking place. The relevant portion of the law [1] is pretty clear. The "waiver" granted to California is automatic, with
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Manufacturers are perfectly free to run separate lines at their plants to make more polluting cars for other states to take advantage of this theoretical market of consumers clamoring for pollution. Also, a number of states require adherenc
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What troubling precedent would the African Union set by recognizing Somaliland that has not already been set by the recognition of South Sudan and Eritrea (also in East-Central Africa)?
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The article doesn't mention "coolness" at all. All that's mentioned is on-campus recruiting of graduating seniors at selective schools, which Goldman/Google/McKinsey certainly work hard at. In terms of the univ
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The direct translation, "egg-laying wool-milk-sow", gets the point across fairly well.
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The cookie foolishness started as an a EU Directive that was adopted in May 2011. It doesn't have anything to do with GDPR, but it's a fantastic example of (likely) well-intended European privacy regulation both is utterly useless
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On a per capita basis, an increase in density requires less sewer, water, roads, fire and police (shorter response times). Schooling needs are the same, and there's only "more" public transportation because it's actual
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> uncontrolled immigration from poor countries bringing crime and causing social distrust This is not a thing that exists. First, immigration into the US, from poor countries or otherwise is not uncontrolled by any stretch of the imagina
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The sum of discounted future cash flows is present value.
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Wealth/power/fame don't change who people are, they just allow them to express it unconstrained. For fame and fortune as an artist, though, the chances of "making it" are so remote that the proportion of sober and r
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The US does a terrible job of inculcating basic financial literacy in the populace. The only way that paying someone 5% of assets / income just to avoid ruination can be a sound investment is if the person is utterly clueless about how
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The main services she mentions aren't accounting. They're more financial advisor/personal assistant/psychologist/business manager/property manager.
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He's probably too busy now trying to split up California into pieces. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-split-t...

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