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by tgrass 14y ago
I believe at 500 points you can downvote comments.
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He passes the beer test.
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When being awesome means being at the top of one's game and being best in one's field, it's a positional good, a zero-sum game. We can't all be number one. While we might find personal fulfillment, we are still just a bunch of animals aroun
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Since good SEO is a personal relationship with the client, it might benefit you to personalize your About Page. Clearly the price is right, but to sell me, I want to know that there is a team behind the effort.
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I'm building a web application for stormwater engineering that integrates local jurisdictional requirements of computation, design and reporting with industry-specific project management.
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First sponsored ad in my Facebook Feed [pic](awesomescreenshot.com)
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NPR ran a piece the other day on the opening of the bridge [1] . I was struck by the response of a Marin county woman who was a child then: "We suspected the bridge was going up just so it could ruin Marin County," she says. Marin residents
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Clearly you have never been dosed with PCP.
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It reminds me more of the tourist attraction that promises to show you a creek that runs uphill. The kids scream from the backseat to see it, dad caves and turns in and pays $5 for parking. Kid gets disappointed and as an adult vows to neve
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As I said, making no call on the politeness. [obligatory] It is inappropriate and morally reprehensible. [/obligatory] Can you not look at nuclear reactions and separate that they are used to make a nuclear bomb? It was a succinct phrase. I
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Some schools allow students to graduate earlier. I got out of high school a semester early; my sister and mother both received their Bachelors at nineteen. While making no call on the politeness of the phrase, "feather not dot" is one of th
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Dear Giddy Facebook IPO Buyers: Are we looking at the same numbers?(businessinsider.com)
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I wonder how many folks suggesting everyone should learn to code will replace a punctured car tire instead of plugging it.
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How to succeed in business by really really trying (theatlantic.com)
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My Fb feed has been thick with friends' updates of Socialcam viewing. 9 times out of 10 the still-image in the update is a revealing woman. I give it two weeks to a month before most folks associate it with the same.
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This is more Gold Rush 2.0 than Bubble 2.0.
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I would not say the tech startup market is overvalued if one looks at money invested. On the other hand, if one considers the amount of time we're all dedicating to development and market research on our as yet unprofitable projects...
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It's too early for a reasoned response. He has to pass through anger and depression first. Cognitive dissonance might get him there.
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You write that as if cognitive dissonance were a bad thing...
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I'm a civil engineer (five years) and have never been on a project that avoided the problems of a custom poorly specificied software build. Civil projects are a constant dialogue between client and engineer - but we get further monkey wrenc
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I agree, individuals need to evaluate the opportunity costs for themselves based on their own circumstances. For a policy discussion, the average or median is relevant; and you are an outlier. The median income for 25-34 with just a high sc
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This is incorrect. It is unlikely the average individual will work more than forty hours, so the opportunity cost is realistically the difference: 10 hours. At 7.25 an hour, pre-tax annual that's a mere $4k, for a four year degree that's $1
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The opportunity cost does not have to be more than one's liesure time. I worked thirty hours a week as a waiter in engineering undergrad and was a part time single dad. I averaged 17K a year. This is not unusual.
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I don't know anyone who makes more than $500K a year. Everyone I know who makes more than $60K a year running their own business, says their only regret is not starting earlier.
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The falling returns to venture capital(noahpinionblog.blogspot.com)
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The Dropbox Difference (twitter.com)
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Many thanks. I prefer the linear story (not for the range-index though): it shows how consistently extreme the high end is from the median relative to the distance the low end is from the median (from a dense concentration of homes just abo
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Thank you very much for the thorough reply. I don't suppose you have an image of the linear version?
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One could get the lat/lon coordinates from the address of each data point and grid the city in any way you want. One method to define neighborhood extents could be cultural instead of geographic by crowd-sourcing the delineation. If one can
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Y scale in Log? I understand wanting to fit it in the screen space. Is Log not generally reserved for large differences in magnitude and for power laws? (I don't have an intuitive understanding of logs, so this is a genuine question).

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