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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I think the flashiness would not have mattered so much if Lycos's results had been better. If I recall, the search results I got from Lycos were poorer than WebCrawler or Alta Vista. There wasn't that much difference, though--every search
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
You've never read The Catcher in the Rye, then?
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"One Tough Nerd" Wins MI GOP Primary(freep.com)
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
As an eighteen- or nineteen- year old, I would have wasted that money almost instantly. Could it work in reverse with the money arriving in your fourth or fifth year of college? Perhaps a curriculum dedicated to giving students more and mo
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
That was my thought, too. No matter how I feel about rejecting the insurance job, I can't deny that he's showing sufficient dedication to job hunting. The trouble is he doesn't seem to be showing any dedication to anything else. Why is h
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> It's pointless to invoke the almighty Google; they simply don't deal with problems in this class FWIW, I worked at a major bank (top 5 in the U.S.) and listened in on several discussions between their top tech guys. As mentioned in o
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Normal people don't have the tools to check the math on a formula that involves 500-digit numbers. It's not like I'm going to pop out my TI-80 and graph it. This formula is cool, but it's only a bit more accessible than the human genome.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
They're not very good, though. It's hard to make something that is both water-tight and has great air circulation.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I have no faith that a cryonics company is going to last for more than a few years. If the money doesn't run out (which it will because someone will get greedy), all it takes is one incompetent employee to open the wrong door or push the
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
You're right that LA to Chicago is likely to never be a popular route for train travel. There's two big problems with air travel in the U.S. that trains could exploit. First, most cities don't have direct connections to their neighbors. Co
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Except that much of manufacturing isn't automated--building and maintaining the robots would be too expensive. Instead companies pay third-world workers next to nothing to assemble products by hand. Go and read Bunnie Huang's blog posts a
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
With small children, my list doesn't look that much like the other responses. We play Gulo Gulo, Snails Pace Race, and Cosmic Cows mostly. When (adult) friends come over, we play Bohnanza, Formula De, Quiddler, and Ticket To Ride.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Some good points mixed with a fair amount of foolishness and surface thinking here, as usual for Brooks. You can make some good points about schmoozers vs. makers and how our economy values social climbing more than actual productivity. Th
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
It sounds like there are some serious psychological problems at work here. From his description of his high school experience, it appears he was suffering from fairly serious depression. At least one of these girls is suffering from simil
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
It's about finding under-valued opportunities, I'd imagine. I assume that minority-, woman-, or veteran-owned businesses are similarly risky compared to businesses owned by white males. (Perhaps they're even less risky in some industries d
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I'm not saying that $5000 didn't go anywhere... About one percent of it was eaten by fees and the rest probably went to make another wager. It almost certainly did not go into anything resembling capital investment as the OP suggests. I'm
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
What you're describing doesn't sound like outsourcing or even offshoring to me. It sounds like expanding the business in new geographic areas. Successful manufacturing companies would never think of sending off a spec sheet to the cheapest
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> Outsourcing works, else it would not still exist. Isn't this like saying, "Thousands of satisfied customers can't be wrong?" Thousands of customers can be wrong. Thousands of companies can pay dearly for outsourced services that
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The big problem with sterility is taste and nutrition. It turns out that many of those vitamins and flavor compounds that we like are natural fungicides, pesticides, and preservatives. That's part of the reason why a home-grown tomato tas
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
A few more revisions: First kid: +2 Each additional kid after the first: +1 Single parent with weekday custody: +10
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The trouble with a spouse is the amount of time and attention he/she takes up in your life. If your spouse is ok with not seeing you for long stretches then I agree with you. If he/she demands a lot of quality and family time, then +1 is
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Japan's high savings rate meant that banks had huge amounts of money to lend. The banks threw lending standards out the window because they had so much cash to lend. When the central bank raised interest rates, the bottom fell out. Here's
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
This OP suffers from the same delusion as a lot of financial professionals. The "Investment capital" that he talks about mostly goes to buy and sell stocks and bonds. These are not real capital investments, but wagers on future prices. I
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Lots of good advice about corporations and I thought I'd throw in my two cents about finances. - Find a CPA and a lawyer you can work with. Choose supporting professionals that match your risk tolerance. The self-employed can be very aggr
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> I highly recommend you do freelance with your LLC in case you start signing contracts and there is a dispute, they'll go after the LLC, not after your personal assets. We should be careful not to overstate the protection a corporation
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Those are the things he gave away. If you read a few of his posts, he mostly eats sandwiches, fruit, vegetables, and eggs. The full list of what he bought is at the end of this post: http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
This is really just replacing one type of "debt" with another. It's true that if I do all my work with one toolset, I'm likely to end up not using the very latest and best tools to solve problems. However, if I regularly use different too
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site. This is the funniest sentence in the history of the web.
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I worry that one-on-one discipleship and small group study can become the be-all and end-all. I don't recall anything in the bible that says, "Get yourself together before you help others," but it seems like that's the main focus of many c
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
You see this tendency creeping into larger Christian churches more and more. If you can stop swearing, donate more money, avoid sex outside marriage, and generally focus on your own purity, you'll be happy and enjoy rewards in heaven. It's

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