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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
Educational Testing Service got interested in it long ago and then dumped it. The National Academy of Sciences did a huge project on improving human performance for the US military back in the 1980's, and they put it in the not useful
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
My recollection is that there was a Vector Graphics in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley around 1972 that was doing something with high-resolution black-and-white video graphics powered by a PDP-8 or something similar. Was that a p
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
Large corporations often make deals with other large corporations, and they prosper. Workers used to do better when a larger percentage of them collectively bargained. But somehow, the possibility that citizens, who are represented by var
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
Yes, this was also accomplished on a PDP-10 at Caltech around 1972.
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
Funny thing about this comparative advantage thing. The example Ricardo gives is 2 countries and 2 products. What do we find when we consider n countries and m products? Does every country have a productive place in a competitive world?
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
> what a good decision would be, but that is not the concept that needs explanation It is subsumed in this work that good for baseball is winning games, and if you look at some of the references, it is taken for granted that there are w
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
Video of a staged crash at the Iowa State Fair, 1932: http://juiceboxinteractive.com/ideas/creating-an-iowa-state-...
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
>> A more accurate analogy would be building a respectable, expensive structure and then blowing it up for the hell of it. Locomotives do reach end of life. Where do you get the idea that they were not old clunkers donated by the sam
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
It was not such a dumb idea. Between the mid-1890's and the mid 1920's, Joe Connolly (known as Head-On Joe) staged more than 50 similar events with more than 1 million paid admissions and not a single injury ever!
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
You might, but others have a several decades head start on you. Baseball odds started behaving quite differently when the first high-dollar computer-reliant betting syndicates started operating way back when. The rule of thumb back then w
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
No, I am a skeptic, not a Marxist. I try to keep this question of Einstein in mind: "What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?" We never know how much we are missing, what points of view will come and
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
> the people putting up the capital If you look at the balance sheets of many very profitable software/service companies, particularly those that use the cloud but do not provide the cloud, you will see that the concept of 'ca
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by lucas_membrane 9y ago
> the timing of the expense is different as it front loads the expense (because of the interest accretion) I would expect that if a firm could make a good case to its auditors that the revenue derived from the use of the leased asset wa