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by jaynos 13y ago
I make sure to get in on the lottery pool at work. I'd hate to be the one guy that shows to work after everyone else wins and quits. Yeah, the odds are extremely thin, but consider it $2 to keep myself from committing suicide.
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by jaynos 13y ago
This is Amazon playing Federal Reserve. Matt Yglesias has a great explanation of this from February: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/02/...
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ESPN doesn't want to count towards your mobile data cap.(publicknowledge.org)
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by jaynos 13y ago
Between 2010 and 2012, applications doubled in volume. A large part of that increase was Tea Party groups. Seems like the review was pointed at the right target (when I owned a business, I inspected the work of the new guys more than the
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by jaynos 13y ago
I assume it's because the mob eventually got involved. Plus, the authors comment about his first trip there makes me think they wanted to clean up the country so as to not scare off tourists.
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by jaynos 13y ago
It took me a while to figure out how to use Work Flowy in a way that will help me. Here's what it's become for me: 1. A To Do list separated by due today (or this week), due this month, due this quarter, due this year. Some stuff winds u
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by jaynos 13y ago
Plus I'm feeling pretty lucky today, so how could I lose?
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by jaynos 13y ago
American here. His colorful use of language sounds exactly like the thoughts in my head when I can't access a mobile site.
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by jaynos 13y ago
This seems like one of those interview questions where there is no right or wrong answer, they just want to see your method. I'll probably waste most of my day thinking about this.
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by jaynos 13y ago
Tell me my surgery will cost $100,000 at hospital X and $200,000 at hospital Y (both of which are close to me and staffed with competent employees). It won't influence my decision as long as my insurance company doesn't care. I'll pick ba
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by jaynos 13y ago
This list is without context. Is it based solely on how business friendly the state is in terms of taxes and licensing requirements? Is workforce education taken into account? Edit: Apparently they give you the ranking information if you
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by jaynos 13y ago
Same thing about the Washington Post article from earlier today. I'm not sure why it wasn't a direct link to the data with a headline of "Feds release huge hospital cost data base". I don't know if there is a useful service to pull out of
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by jaynos 13y ago
I think Amazon will still be able to compete in this scenario. They can (and will have to) calculate sales tax. Plus, the tax will be based on the state that I reside in, not the state that the merchant resides in, so there won't be any "
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by jaynos 13y ago
This isn't just a glasses phenomenon. I see it (or used to before I started buying only from Amazon) from all sorts of sellers. If I choose 1 or 2 day shipping, it should be going out the next day at the latest (if UPS already showed up t
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by jaynos 13y ago
Well played with that closing line.
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by jaynos 13y ago
Price transparency wouldn't help in most cases. If my deductible is the same whether I get the $8,000 procedure or the $38,000 (same) procedure, why should I care? I bet the $38,000 one is better. That's not my specific take, but I bet th
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by jaynos 13y ago
It definitely comes down to the educational issue. I'm a mechanical engineer and have gotten pretty good with "math tricks" (e.g. 103x7 is difficult, but I can compute 100x7+3*7 much easier and know to rewrite the problem to be done in my
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by jaynos 13y ago
The Theory That Would Not Die [1] is a great read. It's a complete history of the fight to legitimize Bayes' theory from Bayes' original experiment through Turing and Nazi subs and beyond. Probably not the quickest way to learn the theory
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by jaynos 13y ago
Looks promising, but the recommended lunch was chicken salad, 2 cups of yogurt, and celery. No carbs...plus that is a lot of yogurt.
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by jaynos 14y ago
The Fantasticks ran off-broadway for over 40 years with a song about rape (using the definition that means "abduction, kidnapping"): http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/fantasticksthe/itdependson... I saw the show in 2001 and still remember