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by lujim 11y ago
Truly just wars may be few and far between but the Pacific war was one of them. I get annoyed by flag waving and chest thumping as much as the next guy but very few people alive today would try to justify Japans actions in WW2. I think it
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by lujim 11y ago
Read Flyboys. The Japanese soldiers, especially the officers were acting in a way that could truly be described as evil. One jaw dropping story involved an officer raping a woman, killing her, and then adding her to a stew that was fed to
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by lujim 11y ago
Is this CNN trying to drum up a terror in the air story? "Strikes were reported in 10 states as well as in Puerto Rico and Ontario, Canada, said the FAA. Aircraft flying over major cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas were a
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A “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing(arstechnica.com)
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Mach Match: Did an XP-86 Beat Yeager to the Punch? (1999)(airspacemag.com)
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Is Wall Street Beneath Business Students' Standards?(bloomberg.com)
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Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections(techcrunch.com)
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Apple Is Planning a Peer-To-Peer Payments Feature(bloomberg.com)
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Oakland’s Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Move to Block an Open Market(buzzfeed.com)
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The Five Biggest Myths About Saving Money, According to a Millennial(bloomberg.com)
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Yellen says research needed on unconventional policy tools(bigstory.ap.org)
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How to spot lies(researchgate.net)
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A Boy Who Became a World War II Veteran at 13 Years Old(smithsonianmag.com)
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The Economy Is Better – Why Don’t Voters Believe It?(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Study: BP oil still lingering at bottom of Gulf of Mexico(wwltv.com)
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Why the Cure for a Sluggish Economy Is Actually Longer Vacations(cepr.net)
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Betamax is dead, long live VHS(theguardian.com)
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by lujim 11y ago
I think routes, prevailing weather, average crew experience, average aircraft age, geographic (topographic features) , airspace complexity and about a thousand other things go into that accident statistics. I couldn't find solid numbe
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by lujim 11y ago
Amazon is ok. Kindle books on the other hand are becoming a ripoff. Just dusted off the library card last week for the first time in years.
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by lujim 11y ago
It's more that FAA Oversight=Good/Less FAA Oversight=Bad. Not only are less of these mechanics FAA certified but the geographical element is also a problem. The vast majority of this maintenance is probably level D heavy checks w
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by lujim 11y ago
In addition to an algorithm not having all available information on the market there is also the fact that any niche or inefficiency in the market can be duplicated by others until it is negated. If you discovered that the market always goe
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by lujim 11y ago
Ugh shit sorry. Taking this discussion offline.
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SQL vs. NoSQL: you do want to have a relational storage by default(enterprisecraftsmanship.com)
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by lujim 11y ago
37 is still a bit expensive for my taste. Look at their PEG (P/E divided by growth). It would be nice if it was below 1. The comparison the GE is because it is one of the bluest of blue chip stocks. They have mountains of assets and
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by lujim 11y ago
There is a fair argument that momentum investing doesn't beat "buy and hold". I like watching the 200, 100, and 50 day moving averages but that's as technical as I get. I get off the boat at channel breakouts and resis
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by lujim 11y ago
Totally true. The "problem" with Buffett is that his advice is a bit of a bitter pill because it's slow, steady and takes decades. It's hard not to trick yourself into believing that you can beat the market consistentl
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by lujim 11y ago
Holy crap man, best of luck. I'm not sure how I would function enough to hold one job. Do you have any active crowd funding or anything going on right now?
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by lujim 11y ago
The problem with shorting anything right now is that the Fed can keep things going higher with zero interest rates and you can get squeezed out of that. You might be able to see trouble spots in the market, but you can't even make an
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What’s the Fed’s Preferred Post-Crisis Approach to Raising Interest Rates?(pubs.aeaweb.org)
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Ahem... Facebook. Somehow Facebook is "worth" more than GE and analysts LOVE it. They are beating earnings but their numbers just don't look all that great to me. A P/E of 107 which wouldn't be insane if the grow

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