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It's winter not summer....
wow, wow, wow - What a brilliant book.
Humans of New York Stories / Brandon Stanton
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/24/451184837/in-10-000-snaps-of-the-shutter-a-photographic-census-of-a-city
page 168
from book shows …
There is nothing to worry about. Isaac Asimov designed it all in.
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such or…
@davfor said: The Poor in the US Are Richer than the Middle Class in Much of Europe
The little I know of statistics, you try to reject a null hypothesis and have a significance test. Descriptive statistics are purely descriptive statistics, the c…
Statistical info from the internet.
Did you know that the great majority of people have more than the average number of legs? It's obvious really; amongst the 57 million people in Britain there are probably 5,000 people who have got only one leg. T…
>vintagefreak said : WTF are we comparing people across continents/countries?
I thought the whole reason this discussion was started was to show how statistics can be used to produce spurious conclusions and ridiculous comparisons. Wasn't that…
>davfor said: It was somewhat surprising to me that being a "poor" household in the US is similar to being in the middle in places like Japan and the UK.
so if you have incomes of 11 people
1,1,1,1,1,7,7,7,7,7,7
median income is 7
and
6,…
But, hey, it could have been worse; you could have been breached @ T-Mobile, via their credit check connection with Experian. (15M)
https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/experian-tmobile-hack.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&…
> Of course none of this matters
probably not, or not much you can do as an individual. I suppose you could invest in the next boutique MF that invests in data breaches.
Not that anybody believes it, but, to believe that any online data can't…
>Lesson On Supply And Demand
maybe more of a lesson on what happens when a small number of large firms control the air and the impact of mergers and consolidation.
I'm watching Longmire on Netflicks
I, too, was watching Longmire (but from a DVD). I wonder what %age of the population was watching an old Longmire episode instead of the debates :)
I don't have Cable TV, hence I can't watch any debates that re…
from this link (the book review:https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/07/reviews/991107.07wilsont.html)
and the link to excerpt
https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/loewen-lies.html
for quote:
Nationally, a lone congressman from Ohio prevents th…
@ MFO Members: This thread dates back to 2013-14, one would think a new thread woud have been in order,
splitters vs. lumpers ideologies
reading is timeless.
If you are interested in a bit of history behind mp3 and music industry, suspense, hunting down hackers, decline of cd, etc. this is a pretty entertaining and informative book. I liked it.
the writing is similar to Michael Lewis's books...
H…
Mo,
This podcast and info may help keep the egg off your face. although it focuses on health it could be more broadly based.
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/skeptics-guide-health-news-and-diet-fads
Private property will come after this.
you mean like staplers?
as long as mergers continue and the competition gets reduced to 2 or 3 major players that have divied up the nation geographically for each industry, I think you will have nothing to …
from the article about Great-West
It’s one of the handful of funds on the menus of 401(k) and 457(b) plans offered through their employers; if they want to take advantage of a tax-advantaged retirement plan and want exposure to the S&P 500, ther…
I'm waiting for a site that will just give me the LOWEST possible price available for an item w/o coupons, w/o apps, w/o having to buy buy a bunch of other stuff I didn't come there looking for and probably don't need and w/o needing to join or subs…
@catch22
not sure what you know or what you don't.
You should be able to use thunderbird to do everything you want. Thunderbird is a mail client (mua) that connects to a mail server (whether it is comcast or anything else).
You can set preferen…
@Accipiter You'll find the secrets of the universe that I have unearthed. The wisdom of Solomon. The creativity of Newton. And the contempt of Ted.
lol, I think all of us have figured out at least 1 of those secrets.
On another note...
I just read a fascinating article in Scientific American. Seems you don't even have to be hooked to the internet to have your computer hacked by malware. How long before they can hack our brainwaves? I'll bet they are researc…
The question is do you want advice as far as a mail user agent or a mail service.
I suspect you are looking for a user agent, not a mail service. then Thunderbird is quite good. Although I would recommend not using e-mail at all- it is a time w…
@Crash I always assumed that you need very good technical skills (e.g. programming) to enjoy the value of Linux or similar open source OS's.
With older Unix 20 years ago, you needed some tech skills. These days Linux , it is probably easier to us…
He's perfect for cable. He was always trying to become more important then the news he was reporting, and when he interviewed people, he asked questions, so he could insert a story or anecdote about himself. If the watergate plumbers and Olly cou…
@chip
in the multi-search.
wrap the table in a div with a class and add some css. probably will work adding a scrollbar directly under table if needed. Seemed to work with web-developer tools.
e.g.
......
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css
.addscroll {
overflow-…
They should have renamed it Cellphone Shack years ago. when they stopped carrying electronic parts.
Last time I shopped there was when the staff didn't know the difference
between a diode and a nematode. Off to the compost bin of history.
I wish there were a federal "Do not invite me for a dinner seminar" opt out list.
But then again, it would get hacked by rogue CFA's and insurance company marketers and you would probably get invites for breakfast and lunch as well.
Next thing com…
Continue; ( Did MFO put a word limiter in? )
i keep getting bumped off with some owl banner.
did you mean length? you are allowed 10,000 characters per comment.
Crash,
re: your issue. "as a test", try testing by going to a discussion, you want to comment on, wait a few minutes before typing anything (let the page fully load with all images and banner), then see if you have an issue. If you don't have the…
the best book I read this year. Superb. well worth the read, if you have the time.
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavour. By Martin Meredith
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanso…
A pen and paper and calculator work as well for sched A, B, C, D, and all others. and it is only the cost of the ink (10 cents maybe) and less than a buck for postage. and it is not rocket science to fill out and the irs will send all forms and …
Up and down market seems like to start the year.
What's new?
except when it's start of the year where it continues to go in one direction. without high volatility.
which also isn't new :) and perhaps less troubling if the direction is one of asce…
A good civil discussion. By "big money" in this case you mean other people's money and that includes those who disagree with the cause for whatever reason. If I knew that a fund company was funding things I didn't believe in then I would transfer my…
