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by qq66 12y ago
Might that fun not also rub off on TJ employees as it rubs off on customers? If my job was to put boxes on shelves, I'd rather do it in a Hawaiian shirt uniform than a plain black uniform.
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by qq66 12y ago
Culture isn't that easy to fabricate without some level of sincerity throughout the organization. And even if it was, who loses if everyone is happier to belong in the organization?
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by qq66 12y ago
Part of this is for cost, and part is for consumer taste. Starting in the early 80s through 90s, consumers started seeking out products based on the amount of fat per serving, leading to the rise of "fro yo" and low-fat high-sugar
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by qq66 12y ago
Fun, but a good media compression format has other properties like: 1) low cost of decoding in terms of RAM/CPU etc. 2) ability to decompress an arbitrary amount of the audio from any starting point in the file, 3) ability to start dec
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by qq66 12y ago
Reducing variance of a return allows the entry of smaller-scale and more risk-averse participants into the market.
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by qq66 12y ago
Refreshing candor.
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by qq66 12y ago
Very little of gold and diamond's prices are their industrial value, just like very little of the value of a dollar bill is its industrial value in burning it to heat a factory.
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by qq66 12y ago
Plenty of law enforcement organizations seize money to make a profit, with very little regard to whether the owners are criminals or whether the money is the fruit of illicit activities: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting&#x
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by qq66 12y ago
Symphonies are pretty traditional in their methods, and the conductor is already an adequate solution to the problem (and has many other roles).
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by qq66 12y ago
This is Apple forcing the in-store analytics companies like Euclid to use iBeacon rather than WiFi. With the market share numbers the way they are, though, for all but the highest-end stores what Android does matters more.
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by qq66 12y ago
That's really amazing. Has it stayed relatively undisturbed? Where is it relative to light? Your shrimp are new shrimp made out of the same molecules as their ancestor shrimp.
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by qq66 12y ago
That's one of the reasons you need a conductor. Orchestra players learn pretty early that if you listen for your cue you'll come in late.
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by qq66 12y ago
On an individual scale, wealth is a poor indicator of education, but in the aggregate the correlation is very strong: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm Doctoral degree-holders are unique in that they're th
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by qq66 12y ago
Going to a 2-year college first and then transferring not only provides a smoother adjustment for students who might not be ready for university, it also costs a lot less and thus is more accessible to low-income students. I think it's
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by qq66 12y ago
Well as far as exaggerations go, equating $15/hr freelance with "slavery" is much more disturbing than any exaggeratioms Über is making.
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by qq66 12y ago
Hah, your comment highlighted the ridiculousness of the article, but there's also some truth to it. Imagine you were considering moving to Florida, but they had recently been ravaged by "The Destructinator of Death" and the &
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by qq66 12y ago
I suppose that's possible, but it's the kind of claim that needs to be proven rather than disproven (just like the claim in the article, which is light-years from proven).
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by qq66 12y ago
You do realize that feminists are the ones who lobbied to go from all female names to half male, right? Meaning that if this dubious research is accurate, they saved lives.
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by qq66 12y ago
I don't think it's possible to say that "deuterium is perfectly safe" and also that "nobody's ever drunk it in even tiny quantities." You mention yourself, there can always be surprises. I'd rather so
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by qq66 12y ago
There's a lot of stuff you can make at home more cheaply than you can buy it. There will still always be people who have the money and want the convenience.
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by qq66 12y ago
Really awesome stuff. I wonder why they chose this level of maximum resolution -- from the Gigapixel images it's clear that they could support zooming into the individual paint cracks, although with the publicity that this is getting,
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by qq66 12y ago
I'd hesitate to drink heavy water. Probably won't do much to you, but why find out.
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by qq66 12y ago
It's hard to say what any team is worth based on a transaction, since they're often bought as luxury goods and not as financial investments. Steve Ballmer wanted the team, so he bought it. I don't think he cares whether he ca
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by qq66 12y ago
Also: "he hesitated to go Dutch on the byline."
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by qq66 12y ago
Isn't overall sales for Amazon published in their annual report?
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by qq66 12y ago
Sounds like S&P is trying to get Tesla to buy rating services. The unsaid implication from this move is that if Tesla opens their books to S&P (of course, as part of a paid engagement), S&P can come up with a "more accurate
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by qq66 12y ago
Material costs only dominate your price if 1) you're minimally improving the material, and 2) you're selling so many units that all of your fixed costs get spread very thin. Both assumptions are not likely true for Boosted Boards.
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by qq66 12y ago
You're not accounting for literally any costs besides parts. R&D, assembly, testing, support, shipping, insurance, marketing, administrative, taxes... I actually doubt that they are spending $1200 on parts because if they were, the
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by qq66 12y ago
The bottom line is that you can't fly a bunch of planes around an airspace without losing a few, and the people who build and fly these planes know this. Second, the technology behind bare-bones drone surveillance isn't that speci
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by qq66 12y ago
"You have to have one" has been true since we lost our ability to photosynthesize, and it won't be false, at a minimum, until we replace all labor with robots and develop an effectively infinite energy source for those robots

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