pitt1980

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by pitt1980 13y ago
CEOs don't get 45 descretionary minutes?
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by pitt1980 13y ago
I don't have links on the tip of my fingers, but my impression is that family formation among young people is down, and its not simply a matter of symantics I'm not even a believer that that's necessarly a terrible thing but
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by pitt1980 13y ago
" My generation (approaching 30) were among the first to have always on, reasonably high speed internet and yes that did mean easy access to pornography but despite that the majority of us are in long term relationships." My impre
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by pitt1980 13y ago
not only doesn't the NFL have farm team, sports that do, don't typically pay 80K http://www.bucsdugout.com/2013/1/14/3874488/minor-league-bas...
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by pitt1980 13y ago
want to throw out a few links to what you consider to be the best of "a lot of interesting lectures out there about how to be better speaking publicly"? the beginner/"I suck at this" vantage point might be more rele
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by pitt1980 13y ago
I think the problem with thinking of yourself first and foremost as a "smart" person, is that there is always someone else smarter out there, then who are you when you meet them? I agree with your post, that thinking encourages a
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by pitt1980 13y ago
it seems that those trend are too dramatic to simply be a case of fudged numbers with no underlying change on the ground (not that numbers can't be fudged, just that if you were fudging numbers you wouldn't fudge them that much)
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by pitt1980 13y ago
what does this mean? what is Soma?
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by pitt1980 13y ago
those areas have/ or are near to natural resources that provide well paying blue collar work which I think explains the results you see almost entirely
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by pitt1980 13y ago
probably referencing the fact that it consumes alot of resources takes alot of green spaces that could be turned into parks, only lets a few people use them depending on where the course is you consume alot of resources watering the course
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by pitt1980 13y ago
"I'd put 'covert CIA assassination' in the same bucket and I don't really know how to put this politely but this is, in my mind, tinfoilhattery." I don't know how much any of us is in a position to assess
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by pitt1980 13y ago
"torturers would stop torturing if it didn't work" I don't know if that follows that argument can be used to defend the logic of any illogical act specifically with torture, there are cultural pressures to "do every
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by pitt1980 13y ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yale-student-tom-friedman-actu... HN officially jumped the shark when some off hand comment becomes yahoo headline
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by pitt1980 13y ago
http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/Fall_2013/Fall1... looks more like 60K depending on your in state/out of state status
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by pitt1980 13y ago
that's a big chunk of everything, when you buy a pop out of the machine, what fraction of what your paying for is raw material + production cost and what percentage is so the can pay for superbowl ads so the next time you're thirsty their b
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by pitt1980 13y ago
the accounting that goes into whether a sports program is profitable or not is sort of tricky scholarships are counted at the full tuition rate its obvious that the marginal cost of educating 80 some football players isn't 0, but its not ob
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by pitt1980 13y ago
how many applicants make it to the last round?
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by pitt1980 13y ago
out of curiousity, what benefits are you referencing?
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I'm reminded of this exchange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848454
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Reddit Thinks It Can Solve the Boston Bombings(slate.com)
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I don't have a study to link to but I'm seen how one slow driving cop can cause a bottle neck behind him as noone wants to pass him some links about about how seemingly minor factors can cause traffic jams http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car
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by pitt1980 14y ago
first thing that pops up when googling cost of traffic jams http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2009/11/10/oecd-... the cost is real, and should be accounted for
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I'm just going to throw this out there, people don't pass marked cars so a marked car driving the speed limit causes traffic to back up behind them for no other reason than to alleviate traffic congestion, it probably makes sense for them t
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I don't think thats something that happens at the pick a profession level no matter which profession you pick there will be administrators, managers, or partners who will be looking to exploit workers willing to take the shit rolling downhi
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by pitt1980 14y ago
cool link, thanks found this: Our natural gait, it turns out, defines us as humans. Not speaking broadly — that we’re only truly bipedal mammal on the earth, blah blah blah — but as individuals. Researchers are increasingly convinced that h
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by pitt1980 14y ago
probably use 2 - 3 camera to triangluate location if you only have to idenitify 24 people, you could probably do that on height plus some other physical dimension
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by pitt1980 14y ago
while back I read the Big Short what I came away with was how durable secrets are here was this billion dollar opportunity that a bunch of people became insanely rich exploiting and it wasn't a secret at all a bunch of people where doing ev
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by pitt1980 14y ago
you could look into play sequencing is a pass more successful if the prior play was a run? last 2, 3, 4, ...n plays were runs? if x of the last y plays were runs same thing situationally, pass on 3rd & 3, if the last n 3rd and 3 were
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by pitt1980 14y ago
while you got me brainstorming, could of years ago I tried to see if having a higher pass/run ratio led to a higher yards per play, found that it didn't part of that seems to be that good offenses get leads and then run the ball, dragging b
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by pitt1980 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002974 seems like a nice starting point for thinking about projects http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5005707 you could see if Bill Walsh actually knew what he was talking about

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