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by j_lev 12y ago
I didn't realise that these were the same place! My 50-in-1 Electronic Project Kit manual often referenced "Radio Shack" and visiting a Radio Shack was my number one reason for wanting to go to the US.
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http://www.marksdailyapple.com/salt-what-is-it-good-for/ According to this (there's a study linked within) salt's effect on blood pressure and other indicators of heart disease seem to follow a j-curve - too
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by j_lev 12y ago
"We need more women in the workforce to stimulate the economy!" "We need to encourage women to have more babies in order to avoid a population crisis!" Welcome to the government of contradictions.
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21st century activism: refusing to spend money in defiance of the government.
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I don't agree that increased immigration/population growth is necessarily the key (for Japan or other developed nations). Technology should be able to go a long way to replace the workers who support the nation. Japan, of course,
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The deflation is often masked by advances in technology. A new 150,000/month condo in Tokyo in 2014 has much better facilities than a then-new 150,000/month condo in Tokyo in 1994. Indeed, the latter is probably struggling to achi
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Well, for starters it sounds like you didn't act maliciously. You acted based on the sum total of your training and experience to that point. If your training or experience was lacking then this is an issue for which the company needs
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If you have kids then you get to specify somewhat how you want them to be raised. Regardless, it is believed that you owe it to the people you leave behind to be clear with your intentions. People dying intestate is a massive drain on socie
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by j_lev 12y ago
Not sure if this was directed at jhulla (and actually I was about to ask it to svachalek). 25% in physical PMs is hard to justify but generally speaking I think Browne's Permanent Portfolio is a good base. Perhaps 20% each of domestic
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The overwhelming opinion of the bogleheads crowd is that even these robo-advisers are ridiculously overpriced for what you get. And the fact that Wealthfront started as a sales portal for actively-managed (ie high-fee, high kickback) funds
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Of course, choosing stocks/index funds/mutual funds/hedge funds/asset allocation/tilt/tax-minimization/etc all only come into play after everything else is in order. I refer most people who ask to Dilbert&
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Anyone else here never have dreams? I can't remember having a dream for at least 18 years now. So even if I have the flexibility to sleep once at dusk and then work for a couple of hours, I'm not convinced I'll see any benefi
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One of the Lectures encouraged new startups to come up with something that other startups would find useful. Indeed, it seems like a good 60-70% of startups fall into this "startup tools" category.
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lol "Not pirating like foreigners" is actually a source of pride for some groups. Japanese anime otaku and Japanese adult video enthusiasts have respectively criticised their (self-styled) western counterparts who tend to pirate t
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Keep in mind the marginal cost of getting a phone-fax instead of a regular phone for home here (Japan) is practically zero. A fax machine (or a landline for that matter) in the home isn't for me, but they're still moving down the
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by j_lev 12y ago
I think there is benefit in at least recording and optionally uploading data to the cloud for now.
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If you just agree due to fear of repercussions, and "they" know this and manipulate it to their advantage then yes, that's probably bullying. Best case you're working with sociopaths.
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Is there anyone there who can proof read your landing page at skurt.co? I know you don't need it to be perfect but it reads like an email from a Nigerian prince.
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Could I ask, is there a "bullying culture" where you are now? The reason I ask is because that is the only way I could reconcile "The workload is unmanageable and it just never ends." It's hard for people who haven&
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My Chinese friend says that the reason there isn't a startup culture in China can easily be explained by guanxi. Specifically, for Chinese people there's no obligation to not rip off an investor (especially a foreign one), and the
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Any chance of getting Japanese added?
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Thanks for the insights
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Ok but I guess the question is, is 10% better or worse than the diagnosis rate of a group of specialists? Also, I imagine there are massive benefits if people all around the world were pumping data into a system. Correlations that a group o
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by j_lev 12y ago
Thanks everyone for the responses. > what doctor wants to facilitate the commoditization and automation of his or her profession Agree in principle but it just takes one incumbent to go rogue and become rich selling his knowledge, and th
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by j_lev 12y ago
Thanks to this game I finally decided to upgrade my ball mouse to LASER. (and unfortunately I got "disconnected from server" about 15 levels in)
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Some questions: 1) How far along are we in terms of those computers that were predicted in the 80s to one day replace doctors? Not trying to antagonize but I can't see any harm in having a row of booths with terminals that patients can
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Does that work with the $5 off coupon code?
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I was thinking the exact opposite after having plugged in all sorts of crazy numbers to see how they affect the results (incidentally the highest total cholesterol it accepts is 400, way too low for anyone who regularly cooks with coconut o
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Interview with Former SWIFT Manager Tjerk Veenstra(internationalman.com)
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I think the payoff would be too low. It might be more feasible however if it was already in digital format, and there was a searchable place to which a person's entire hard disk could be uploaded with a short description of who/wh

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