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by pwhelan 16y ago
Shop Class as Soulcraft is an excellent, excellent book about this. PhD who worked as a motorcycle mechanic. A lot of white collar work is requires no real thought only the ability to concentrate. I think this is why so many people hate the
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I can't wait for them to do a story on Blackwater/Xe.
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Coke's Freestyle Machines Ready to Rock Tongues With 104 Flavors (fastcompany.com)
1 points by pwhelan 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwhelan 16y ago
However, are the successful ones narcissistic or just confident? Narcissism is a flaw of overvaluing yourself to the point where it negatively impacts relationships and performance. I can't see many successful entrepreneurs getting through
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by pwhelan 16y ago
A corollary there is that you cannot leverage in baseball like you can in financial markets to play at ever thinner margins and thus the theory becomes largely useless unless you can augment it with better information. Also, people forget t
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by pwhelan 16y ago
If I were in your shoes I'd try to have something to do tonight or after work. Just something non-work but good. Perhaps a romantic dinner with the wife or playing golf with a friend. Something to keep your general momentum going and relax
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Except there are verifiable differences in the product of hormone augmented, traditionally industrialized milk and the organic milk Whole Foods stocks. There are legitimate ethical arguments about environmental impacts and the treatment of
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Whole Foods milk is a disingenuous comparison. There is a fundamental difference in the product and the ethics involved by using hormones. A more proper comparison would be saying something along the lines of "Ranchers can only have worn je
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by pwhelan 16y ago
This is a true travesty. This should have been caught by anyone involved with the project as wrong -- even if it was legal. I am hoping that this sets a strong legal precedent against this kind of behavior. (The best thing to do is clearly:
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I think the fact that a strong portion of their traffic is infringement is pretty damning on liability. While some people will use LimeWire for innocent behavior, or BitTorrent, let's face it, they was developed pretty much to facilitate in
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by pwhelan 16y ago
The sole purpose of a business is to represent the interest of the owners. That almost exclusively means maximizing profits over the long term. This is a slightly different but important distinction. I agree with Warren Buffet when he says
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I am curious if any parents who told their children to lie (conspiracy to commit perjury? obstruction of justice?) will get hit with any penalties? I am not a parent and I cannot imagine the horror that one would feel in this situation. How
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Some runners do that. Others do not. My cousin is a D1 cc runner. He runs a lot of sprints in his training (mostly 400, 800m), but his shortest race distance is 10k. He is doing a marathon soon and an ironman is in the works. Good football
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by pwhelan 16y ago
To begin discussion of the soul is to try to define it in some way. When a 'self-respecting' professor wants to define cognition or love for me, I suppose it should subjected to intellectual snobbery? I am not a Catholic but they have, and
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I guess I wasn't clear. I mean compared to other quarters where they (or other firms) made similar or greater amounts of money. Is the constant winning a side product of less risky bets, less leveraged & more fearful markets or...? What
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Impressive feat. I guess that stat arb and whatnot is easier now because people are no longer leveraged to move the world and the margins can be a bit tighter. I would be interested to see loss days compared to a quarter of total gain/loss.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I just plain disagree that it would impress donors. Much like how simple things like bed nets or drinking water wells don't seem to get press or inspire donors for aid to Africa -- despite their proven impact -- many dollars flow towards se
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Counter argument to this would be that we (US) try to avoid broadcasting when we catch people involved in relatively clandestine networks so we can try to continue doing so.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
He doesn't argue that small attacks don't instill terror -- it doesn't serve the dual purposes of "inspiring" allies and donors while instilling fear in the target city/nation. Also, you must recall that you actually need people to blow up
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I think a problem is that people will initially load up on apps and books when they first purchase something. I think I bought 7 books when I got my KindleDX in Jan. I have a few more on there already. However, the initial burst of the iPad
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by pwhelan 16y ago
If they made this opt-in, it would be great. When I read a physical book, it is a private thing and to maintain the integrity of the experience it should be opt-in. That being said, I would be interested to see the results of what people ar
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Mahmud... what? The article was essentially saying that Apple can do whatever they want because they built it. The main point of the article was pretty disparaging to people who are upset by this decision. If I didn't convey that I was upse
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Sigh... more of this? Quite frankly, it is getting tiresome how people seemingly willfully misunderstand this. Apple has every right to approve what goes into their store. It is very questionable if they have the right to tell you how to cr
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by pwhelan 17y ago
You may change CEOs if their behavior habits change significantly, including them turning from narcissistic jerk to narcissistic jackass. Instability at the helm isn't a good thing, even if you are currently still heading in a good directio
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HP Skewers Apple's iPad With Slate Demo Videos(crn.com)
1 points by pwhelan 17y ago|0 comments
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Online courses can reduce the costly sting of college(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by pwhelan 17y ago|0 comments
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Straighterline seems interesting to me. I like that people can take these intro courses at their own pace then transfer over. It seems like it could help those who are in the military and wish to take courses but are unsure about their sche
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Can you really go to college for 99$?(myfoxdc.com)
2 points by pwhelan 17y ago|1 comments
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by pwhelan 17y ago
When this comes to market, the Von Neumann bottleneck compensation techniques will become obsolete in a way. However I would love to see how this will speed up computing in throughput, because this clearly is a major achievement.
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by pwhelan 17y ago
And a measure that Warren Buffet says to ignore.

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