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jpadkins
9y ago
how?
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9y ago
> Without a high school diploma, What is the cause of not completing high school? what about lack of IQ. There is a hidden variable that causes both not passing high school and not being a millionaire.
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9y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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9y ago
we already do
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9y ago
both of those acquisitions contribute a small amount to each companies earnings. There will still be a duopoly without those acquisitions.
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9y ago
It's not the small cabal of professionals that irks me. It's the method of increasing the money supply to generate inflation that bothers me. Central bank fiat systems use credit to increase money supply, so banks and people who
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9y ago
money is fungible. You can't trace it to a specific origin.
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9y ago
you can already do that at https://myaccount.google.com/
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9y ago
Rural flat areas: I expect fixed point wireless to be more prevalent. firms specialize, it's an important attribute of a functioning free market. If there is demand for running fiber through conduits, local firms might specialize in
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9y ago
no, I expect them to build redundant connections to homes / neighood POPs. Especially for cities that plan well and design for easily pulling new wire through existing conduit. The first build out of fiber to the curb is expensive. 2-
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9y ago
http://broadbandcountrydata.law.upenn.edu/the-facts/
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and why do you only have comcast as a choice? Government granted monopolies. Void all local contracts with ISPs (cable or telco), and you will have choices.
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9y ago
> Self driving cars will be quiet, electric, clean, shared and won't need the parking space. They'll make living in high density areas that much more viable and pleasant. Which will drive up housing prices in high density areas
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9y ago
self driving cars is going to resume the suburban boom. When commute time becomes productive time, or TV time, then people will continue to expand outwards to cheaper housing with more space. I would be betting against density right now.
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10y ago
what's the difference between a blog and news?
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10y ago
https://customsearch.googleblog.com/ Also posted changes coming to the CSE API.
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10y ago
yahoo has adtech?
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10y ago
you sound like someone who has never talked to a blue collar worker in the rust belt.
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10y ago
search?
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10y ago
maybe, maybe not. methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas. So if you reduced CO2 90%, but methane went up by 2X then you would have stronger warming. My point is CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas.
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10y ago
actually the screenshot you linked shows that he didn't say blacks have lower IQ than whites. He said haiti has an average IQ or 70, and its not because they are black.
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10y ago
not all laws are good. criticism should be encouraged, so we make the laws better.
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10y ago
top bracket of corp tax rate is 35%. And taking less money from a corp one year is not 'tay payer paying for it'. The federal government will take less money from msft, that is not the tax payer paying for 35% of the purchase pr
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10y ago
One variant I ask is 'estimate the number of delivery drivers needed to start a same day delivery service in a city'. Do you think this is a brain teaser or not? This is clearly not a statistics product... I find PMs need the abi
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10y ago
I do a lot of PM phone screens. I don't ask brain teasers but I do ask basic math problems (i.e. drake's equation type problems). They are very good for screening out candidates who won't be able to do the analytical part of
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10y ago
how does the pool get funded? You can have some really perverse incentives depending on how its funded...
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10y ago
it's not based on the search, it's based on the your visit to their web site.
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11y ago
Overall sentiment of this article is generally correct. Lots of minor errors throughout. One major one that caught my eye: > to increase brand awareness and thought leadership (and those cannot be measured). Brand awareness and thought
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11y ago
beyond basic healthcare, better healthcare has surprisingly low effect on life spans.
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11y ago
once a lifetime taxable events are prone to huge swings in revenue, not to mention all the schemes to evade.
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