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World Bank rankings by country: Ease of Doing Business, Starting a Business, etc.(doingbusiness.org)
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I had the same problem. You have to click the "choose download location" link. Here's a mirror: s3.amazonaws.com/2008/nba_paper.pdf In short, an NBA coach who has never been an NBA player will tend to have a worse W-L record than a coach wh
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If anyone wants to download the four part series, here it is concatenated: http://s3.amazonaws.com/2008/09/javascript.mp4 (178 MB).
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Antimatter, most expensive substance on Earth. $62.5 trillion an ounce according to nasa.
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Den: http://s3.amazonaws.com/2008/office.jpg Notice the hard wood floor I built on top of the carpet so the chair's casters would glide smoothly. Cost me $50 in wood and an hour's time but it beats those plastic mats you get at office sup
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True, in an ideal environment the floor is best. But someone lives in the apartment below. I imagine they appreciate my imperfect but - at normal volumes - acoustically sound hack of incorporating rubber stabilizers in the subwoofer base an
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http://twitpic.com/ao6r
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Yes, I think you're right. Updated.
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Good catch - I count 7: http://100.s3.amazonaws.com/camo.jpg
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Every week you read "tens of thousands of blog posts"? Seriously? To read 20k+ posts a week, you have to read 2,800+ posts a day. If you sleep 8 hours a night and do nothing else with your life except read blog posts, you still have to re
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Depends on what they value. Old people love new technology when it solves their problems. Health is a big motivator. If you invent a gadget that cures arthritis, I guarantee you millions of "technophobes" will be among its early adopters. M
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If someone wants to rob you, they too prefer your id to your thumb. The average sentence for aggravated assault in the U.S. is 30 to 90 years per count. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault#Aggravated_assault
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In a way, it depends on how we define mental effort. If you concentrate on raising your heart and breathing rates - which are physical, but then so in a sense is mental effort - you can significantly affect calorie burn.
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Windows only. No Mac, no Linux.
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App is mostly functional but doesn't live up to the marketing hype. Surprised you're accepting payments this early. The lofty promises of "no more accountants," "safe from the tax man" and "it does everything you need" strike me as careless
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If you encourage or openly tolerate the sharing of copyrighted materials, that is considered illegal and you can be sued for it. To be safe, discourage such activity. Instruct the community to post their own scripts or scripts they know to
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The author's literary style may be overzealous but I thought his philosophy was at least credible. He echoes Tolle, Zittrain and others who warn (as Zittrain puts it) "the internet, in many important respects, is a collective hallucination.
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"Summarising what we do, I'd say it is this: whereas before the objective was to create new dishes, now what we seek is to create techniques and concepts that will generate many dishes."
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Zoho compares their document sharing feature to YouTube 7 times in that press release. I suppose it's clever marketing to announce a Google property as your style inspiration. But 7 times in one blog post? Zoho Share doesn't even handle vid
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...truant spews and new startups. Hacker News: knew cash ER, screen hawk, and "HN: We Rake CS."
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Summary: A private college math head considers the existential, professional and communication problems peculiar to mathematicians.
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If the project is in fact "very exciting," maybe you should respond in kind. Humor them. Rent a rock star costume and wear it to the interview. Gently explain how you were moved by the job description but that there was this one part which
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Ego drives the collective hallucination part of the internet.
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I think you nailed it. Tom's character tells us Landshark sells internet strategy advice to ad agencies. "Pure E. Not E commerce. Not E business. Not click and mortar [...] We help big, greedy advertising agencies sell the useless products
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The Art of Memory by Frances Yates. Classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the printed page.
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Gems throughout: "The more different people you can get connected with, the better. Try to swap papers with people from different research groups, different AI labs, different academic fields. Make yourself the bridge between two groups of
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It goes on to say: "...So cool people hardly ever learn about their subfield from published journal articles; those come out too late...You, too, can be a cool people. Here are some heuristics for getting connected."
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My favorite bit so far: "After the first year or two, you'll have some idea of what subfield you are going to be working in. At this point---or even earlier---it's important to get plugged into the Secret Paper Passing Network. This informa
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Would you agree it is a tragedy when a newborn enters daycare? Infants crave attention and they loathe situations when their basic needs go unmet. Can an overworked daycare temp better ensure your baby's interests than you? I am assuming we
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Ever watched a trained parrot? Birds imitate all kinds of sounds. Doubtless a cell phone ring is in the avian call repertoire. The Lyre bird can perfectly mimick lots of man-made sounds: camera shutter, camera with a motor drive, car alarm,

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