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by timdellinger 16y ago
Some numbers for other companies, in a few different industries influenced by technology (taken from Wikipedia): Dow Chemical 57514 / 46000 = 1.25 Million / employee BASF 67787 / 104780 = 0.65 GE 157000 / 323000 = 0.49
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First: recommendations are a Must Have. Geolocation: craft beers often have limited distribution, and are only available in certain states, or in areas where the distributors decide to carry them. Reviews of craft beers that you can actual
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by timdellinger 17y ago
Link to the whole story (not that much longer): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230425270457515...
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"Self-transcendence 'reflects a decreased sense of self and an ability to identify one's self as an integral part of the universe as a whole,' the researchers explain." To me this sounds like an imbalance that would turn a person in to a do
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by timdellinger 17y ago
Investing over a period of time instead of all-at-once, in order to diminish the effect of market peaks and make sure you hit some of the valleys, is called Dollar Cost Averaging. I think the reason no one seems to talk about it much is be
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Has anyone been able to dig up the patents on this? I tried a quick google patent search to try to get more technical detail on what they're doing and how they're doing it, but I haven't found the patents. They mention patents, but don't
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by timdellinger 17y ago
I always wondered if corporate personhood meant that corporations would lose some of their their rights if convicted of a felony. And are corporations eligible for tougher sentencing under "three strikes you're out" legislation? If a corp
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This would have lots of un-intended consequences, especially when you think about how much money can be saved with group living (10 to 100 people per house, economy of scale with respect to room and board). Separatist cults would now be pro
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A few thoughts: 1. The rule of thumb I've always heard is that $2 million in the bank lets you live off the interest with a salary of $50k/year. Which is all that anyone really needs. $4 million for $100k/year, etc. These are the standar
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"Note that I did not claim that this is the main problem with the Segway, just one of many" I think the title of the essay (The Trouble with the Segway) kinda does imply that this is the main problem. The title suggests that the essay will
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I put the Segway in the same category as the fanny pack. They both seem like they ought to be useful, but for the most part both are more trouble than they're worth in actual practice. Plus they offend our sense of aesthetics in hard to
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This also speaks to why Makers tend to be somewhat noctural: the default for night-time that it be uninterrupted. Not just interruptions by other people, but by our own notions of what we "should be doing", i.e. going to the post office wh
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by timdellinger 17y ago
A neologism from Douglas Coupland's 1991 book Generation X: Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
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The college/department each take a percentage of every dollar that a professor raises to fund his/her research through grants. It ends up being a sizable amount of money, so there's incentive to hire and keep professors that bring in the m
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Lesson 1: The world is not designed for people like you. You will find this to be a recurring theme throughout your life. Sometimes you can find a way to modify things be more to your liking. Other times you can't. Lesson 2: Not all part
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For another great article on Judith Harris, see Malcolm Gladwell's 1998 piece in the New Yorker: http://gladwell.com/1998/1998_08_17_a_harris.htm
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by timdellinger 18y ago
No plot of Mario's position vs. time? They need to verify that their equation (x = x0 + v0t + 0.5at^2) accurately describes the fall.