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E-waste recycler must serve 15-month prison term(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by pitt1980 8y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Yeah, the better line of inquiry might be, is customized, private asset management a good deal for someone w/ a $25 million net worth? Honestly that article didn't cause me any envy, if anything it caused me imaginary anxiety. See
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by pitt1980 8y ago
I suspect some people are significantly more strong hand dominate than other people. I suspect that significantly adds to the learning curve. --------- While I don't want to advocate a defeatist outlook (I'm sure if you truly plow
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Maybe its an off-hours tactic?
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by pitt1980 8y ago
He wrote a pretty interesting profile of Robert Noyce, one of the co-founders of Intel https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyc...
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by pitt1980 8y ago
For the most part I agree (is it too tacky if I link to my other comment down page where I attempt to expand on that idea? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047045
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by pitt1980 8y ago
good comment the typically interview gotten through a college job fair, and a coding interview, prices human labor as a commodity sometimes commodities sell for high prices, but in general, you'll do better if you don't compete as
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Seems like the key to making this work is having done the legwork beforehand to know you're making suggestions that won't wind up being tone deaf. That legwork probably looks like having several conversations beforehand with peopl
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by pitt1980 8y ago
"ended up worse off than our other classmates in terms of job/grad school prospects" you sure about that? Just because the jobs they wound up in didn't impress you, doesn't mean that they didn't beat out other
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by pitt1980 9y ago
" but I need to know a bit about whats going on to be social. " I've found that I don't, nearly as much as I would have thought. If people really want to talk about a current event, you can usually get a lot of mileage o
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by pitt1980 9y ago
But for whatever reason, people do not get distribution. They tend to overlook it. It is the single topic whose importance people understand least. Even if you have an incredibly fantastic product, you still have to get it out to people. Th
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Where were these worries four years ago for the much larger and arguably more manipulative effort by the Obama campaign? Instead of using a personality quiz, the Obama campaign merely got a portion of its core supporters to use their Facebo
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Intelligence matters more than you think for career success(80000hours.org)
2 points by pitt1980 9y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 9y ago
I. Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn’t, James Scott had to write it a century later. The wait was worth it. Scott starts with the sto
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Its an interesting thought - couple thoughts, its assumes a cream rises to the top, such that your mating success will correlate with whether you're smart and industrious I suspect that there might be a tendency in polygamous societies
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by pitt1980 9y ago
But the available research suggests that if state lawmakers increased appropriations for public colleges and universities, it would be unlikely to have an effect as large as advocates assume. More state funding appears to buy pennies on the
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by pitt1980 9y ago
thanks
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Spin Selling by Neil Rackham presents a useful theoretical framework for selling https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Neil-Rackham/dp/00705111... There are many sales books that present scripts, in general I think
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Love to hear which sales books you consider great
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by pitt1980 9y ago
If you're not familiar (that's ok, lots of people are stars in some circles and unknown in other circles), you should check his work out
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by pitt1980 9y ago
What do you imagine the public transportation options truly are in Darien Lake, New York? She appears to have to park her camper at camp sites, bicycle use might or might not be practical (I suspect bringing groceries back from the store is
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Are the Eagles for Real?(slate.com)
2 points by pitt1980 9y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 9y ago
fwiw, Springer's political life was before he became a nationally known celebrity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer
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by pitt1980 9y ago
https://npc.collegeboard.org/student/app/olin is an interesting calculator plugging in $150K combined income it indicated that hypothetical college age child would pay $44,906 a year to attend for contrast, given
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by pitt1980 9y ago
It seems interesting to contrast this with the explanation of the financial crises that decision makers had 'privatized benefits and externalized costs' (I remember hearing it from Nassim Taleb, but there were probably others maki
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Marching Markups(overcomingbias.com)
1 points by pitt1980 9y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Is Google being blind to the bubble they exist in 'good for business' As best I can tell Google is within their legal rights to employ this individual as they see fit I'm going to disagree that getting rid of inconvenient tru
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by pitt1980 9y ago
fwiw, this method doesn't seem to predict the list very well as its not a list of just the highest peaks in the world longest sightlines also depend on the surrounding topography that blocks or doesn't block a sightline this seems
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Seems like Spain gets a large chunk of the entries due to the geographic phenomenon on a long plain w/o anything to block the horizon plus high peaks on either side of the plain which adds to the horizon
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by pitt1980 9y ago
TheRinger seems significantly more 'short form' than Grantland did not sure what that says about the economics of long form sports journalism

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