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797karma·289submissions·April 19, 2012
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Cleveland fed uses that spread to predict GDP Growth (2%) and probability of recession (20%) https://www.clevelandfed.org/our-research/indicators-and-dat... …
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Population and construction costs are a loose correlation with housing prices, but I dont see any correlation with interest rates. http://lenkiefer.com/2017/12/20/state-…
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Historically, it is more about construction costs and comparable rent prices. http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data/Fig3-1.xls …
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The dump includes email addresses, both government and private. That does not seem good. There is a surprisingly little spam. Either that is about to change, or spam didn't get included in the FO…
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$32M is not a cost the requestor bears, but an estimate of the cost the city bears. IT estimated the requestor fees to be $21k/year assuming 10TB of data. Clearly, IT were estimating the costs of…
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You are not missing anything. The link does make the exact opposite point: "you will not be able to argue that you should be protected by the Constitution."
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It gets difficult when you are determined to be mentally competent to stand trial, but you are clearly not mentally competent enough to make legal decisions. > State psychiatric experts found McCoy…
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Valuing your wife and kids above all else? That is a most fortunate life.
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You are spending so much time and money tearing that poor Miata apart. What inspired this?
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I use firefox bookmarks synced using Xmarks. Each account has a unique email address, and important accounts have a unique password element added. I use firefox bookmarks to note down in a cryptic man…
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I recommend reading "cracking the pm interview" Then try to find a job either in product management or in a related field e.g. development, consulting, marketing, customer success (not QA or…
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I try to avoid telling a 3 year old what they are incapable of doing. The 3 year old will tell you what they want to do. At 3, my little guy's favorite toy was rated for 8+ years old, and his fav…
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> But. I have no idea what I just read. You are not alone my friend. Thanks for the excerpt.
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Im completely agree, but wire fraud has been illegal since 1872. It is so beautifully vague, it an extremely common prosecutorial tool. I would love to see it overturned, but that seems incredibly unl…
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>One of the police officers named in the suit, Det. Randy Hicks, testified on behalf of Black after the city filed a lawsuit against him. The detective corroborated the allegations against himself …
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I agree the debates largely aren't about the dating & inconsistencies in the various transcripts we have today (although that is debated.) The debates are regarding the underlying source docu…
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I was deliberately vague, because it has been a while since I read about this, and because nothing is entirely certain. The earliest fragments are tiny e.g. P52 and they don't have a precise date…
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Where do you draw the line? The canonical gospel fragments also date from hundreds of years after Christ, and some of the later fragments seem also increasingly bizarre.
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Not 365, but 360?
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> It is a standout in none of them. Except perhaps the Prius? It is a jalopy for sure, but did the hybrid very well, when most hybrids were done very poorly.
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> Don’t bullshit If someone simply abruptly said "I don't know" without any follow up, then it would give me serious pause for concern. By all means, be succinct. Admit you don'…
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...and if you find yourself trying to explain concepts that took you forty years to understand... then you probably only recently turned forty. :)
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I had always presumed the vast majority of economists working in tech were simply doing transfer pricing... shuffling profits overseas to minimize taxes.
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Try disabling other extensions that might alter the user agent.
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The article isn't asking why Atlassian is successful. Having a great product generating word of mouth is typical table stakes for success. The article is asking how Atlassian grew so fast while o…
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Atlassian's low sales costs might simply be a function of who they are selling to. E.g. Jira & Salesforce both have the same approximate ease of use, and the same approximate level of configu…
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Adults are no longer the target audience for these shows. Malcolm Gladwell touched on this in the Tipping Point. Sesame Street pioneered the use of TV to entertain and educate toddlers. But a lot of t…
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This is really nice. Were the video's created using the GX7 time lapse feature?
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