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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I think it's generally agreed that the U.S. was the world's foremost economy and the home of many of the major innovations of the 20th century. I'm contending that our public education system was a major enabler of that creativity and prod
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Buying a car is a really unpleasant, multi-hour experience, but it's funny how often people go back to the same dealer.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
It may be OT, but it made me think of something: Inequality of opportunity is part of what made the U.S. a 20th century powerhouse. Bright, educated women had two career choices pre-1965: nursing or teaching. (Even in 1960, the state scho
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The Batman logo is something rare, I think. Most of the logos you list are bound by either color (NBC's peacock looks funny in monotone) or shape (Apple would have a hard time reshaping the apple, Nike can only make minor changes to the ou
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I disagree. The Windows logo is just a cross in a box with multi-colored panels. You can twist, turn, bend, or re-color it considerably before it's unrecognizable. When they've wanted to make their images more dynamic, they've curved t
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I have a completely unfounded theory about the Gap. :) Through the last fifteen years their pattern has been two to four great years followed by two disappointing years. They'll do well for several years with basic khakis, denim, t-shirts
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Costco and Sam's Club both use exposed plywood at their checkouts where it probably would have been cheaper and easier to use plastic or metal signs.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
My friend uses a less wasteful, but slower technique. Here's what she does every spring and fall: 1. In the fall, she boxes up or separates everything she hasn't used in the past week. For clothing, she just turns the hangers in the clos
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I took the quiz online and the articles about it have been highly misleading. I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable religious person and I got 26 out of 32 questions right. Here's the thing, though: I got that many right because I took
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> Tim told me that he doesn’t want whatever makes TechCrunch special to go away. He also said it was important that we feel free to criticize AOL when we think they deserve it. And the agreement we signed with AOL fully reflects this.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
This is true everywhere, not just in California. All forty-one states with a personal income tax have laws on the books to collect taxes from non-residents who work in their state. If you're affiliated with a pro team (including players,
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I would argue that economic instability was a strong contributor to the racial and religious violence you describe. It's easier to tune out intolerance when you're secure in your station.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
What an odd grab-bag of half-baked ideas. As far as I can tell, it seems to boil down to "don't listen to anybody else, don't compromise your dreams," which is fine-enough advice, I guess. Here's the trouble, though: other people, even pe
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Some things never change. When my mom entered college in the early 60's, her school had four and a half men for every woman. The joke was "one's a momma's boy, one's jerk, one's a bore, one has a girlfriend back home, and who wants a half
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> There are high school teams that do this too. Crazy, but when you're 16 it's actually kind of fun since the aches and pains aren't quite as bad. Two practices and a film meeting every day makes for rapid visible improvement. I've neve
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> But is there any correlation with programming ability? Or is GPA just an indicator of 'obedience'/employability? When we were looking at entry-level resumes in a big consulting company we looked at the following: 1. Did they complete
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> I notice that if you have the door to your office > closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, > and you are more productive than most. But 10 years > later somehow you don't know quite know what problem
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Peopleware strongly advocates for private offices.
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> Can you name a single good or service [1] which fewer people today have than in my parent's generation? Fresh food. Fresh hamburger was less than $1 per pound when I was a kid in the late 70's/early 80's. It's $5 per pound now. A f
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Yeah, I'm not a consumer, but I always thought that the "dime" in dime bag referred to the price, not the amount of weed.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The active military was ~2.1 million in the 80's as opposed to ~1.4 million now. The death _rate_ in the early 1980's was slightly lower than the death rate today. Of course, the active military in the early 1980's had a ridiculously high
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> There’s obvious debunking that could be done – the first one I’d point out (almost did) is that trade creates wealth, if for no other reason than people like variety. So if you have 10 potatoes and I have 10 carrots, and we swap some
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Huh? So rather than confirm economic theories by using statistical correlations to economic growth or general well-being we should...um...not "hijack economics." Or something. What's the point of indicting pseudo-science and confirmation b
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Uh... NYC was a dangerous place in the mid 90's. Do you have evidence that the gypsy cabs were targets more than yellow cabs? Yep. http://www.taxi-library.org/marosi.htm "Out of the 85 total cab drivers killed in 1992 and 1993, for ins
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Driving a gypsy cab (which is what ubercab is) is a dangerous business. In the 90's, New York averaged something like 2 murdered cabbies a month. And those drivers were only being robbed for a small amount of cash. This application could
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It doesn't take very many prostitution arrests to encourage the trade to move elsewhere. I imagine that a group of officers with iPhones could arrest thirty or forty uber-cabbies in an afternoon. It could be _very_ lucrative for the city
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Any employer worth working for has learning and development programs. At big companies, there's probably dozens of people managing training programs. At small companies, there are tons of opportunities to organize interest groups or show
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Comparing vaccines to DDT seems backwards to me. Perhaps we're more afraid of DDT than we should be, but DDT is moderately toxic and has a soil half-life of up to 15 years. (Compare this to a few weeks for Malathion or a few months for Gly
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
These days, it seems the most common way to win a million dollars playing poker is to play with some else's money.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
This talk of swings and home runs leads me to a comparison. Could it be that we're looking at a Sabermetric/Moneyball shift in thinking? One of the most counter-intuitive parts of the sabermetric approach is to focus on avoiding outs rathe

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