jamesbkel

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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   I saw the same thing when I was living in Port Elizabeth, ZA. It definitely works, the kombis with the best paint jobs always had more passengers. However, like the article mentions, it was mainly a good indicator of someone who took care
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   Very true. I occasionally walk over to the libraries when I need to hunker down and do some work/research. Fortunately, I look like a student...
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   This letter reads like some cliched copy he had written up by his staff. In most cases, 'his' thoughts are never carried out for more than a sentence or two. Where's the content? Am I missing something?
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   I'm not sure if the graphic is just confusing, useless or both. They appear to say that BoA and Nomura benefited the most, followed by Barclay's. But the width of the lines to Barclay are the the biggest of all. As far as I can tell from th
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   True, I imagine a plane crash is very much an all or nothing venture (major and few survivors vs. minor with just injuries). Perhaps not so much with driving. Right now just speculating, but I'd be curious to if anyone's created a breakdown
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   I suspected that was where this was going, so I checked the comments. Thanks for saving me the two minutes.
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps he misunderstood Apple telling McGraw-Hill that 'your e-books will work on iPhone and iSlate' as '[the tablet is] based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable'.
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   I spent awhile in South Africa studying public health back when I was in school and as a result, learned Xhosa. Very fun to learn (grammatically fairly straightforward, but making all the sounds correctly is a bit challenging) and being abl
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   by jamesbkel 17y ago

   Agreed. I thought "Fooled..." and "The Black Swan" were great and I have a lot of respect for Taleb. But lately, he has become too self-aggrandizing. He seems to take too much credit for saying that an unpredictable event could happen, a fe
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    by jamesbkel 17y ago

    Agreed. The problem is that nobody (or hopefully, very few) people ever took 'MP: Holy Grail' as historically accurate. As someone with a degree in Decision Science my main issue is not so much with Gladwell, but the fact that most people I
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    by jamesbkel 17y ago

    A good point. Could be taken even further to view it as a regressive tax... Chances are if one can afford to hold your wealth as you described, she is not living paycheck to paycheck. Especially relevant in an economy where many may have b
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    by jamesbkel 17y ago

    For something like a camera the average person wouldn't notice a text file, but may notice photos. For phones, I generally include my email in the greeting/home screen message. For my iPod, I select the engraving option and use '$100 Reward
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    by jamesbkel 17y ago

    I think the real point the author is arguing is closer to the difference between inductive v. deductive reasoning.