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Agreed. I like maltz's suggested clickbait title "The shocking change at your kids' high school you absolutely must know about".

I wonder if we can then reduce this example to a 1-finger sequence. Could a court require you to turn over all of your fingerprints, but not identify the (1 character) sequence?

The city should budget an amount for each year in payouts. Start with the average amounts over the past 5-10 years plus 10%. When all of the complaints for that year have been settled, anything left goes out to the department as bonuses.

We've got sticks that don't seem to be working. Let's throw some carrots in as well.

Good performance -> good bonuses.

I listened to this earlier today - and had to head directly to their site to see pictures. A little odd, even for planet money, but a good way to start my day.

I'm sure the same benefit could be gained through a leg band. For me, I tend to move around in my sleep, so I wonder if it would work.

Time to register burger wrappers! </s>

In addition to the other comments, mortgages under $50k might be very hard to write legally. For the most part, the origination, appraisal, and closing fees for a $50k loan and a $250k loan should be very similar.

Let's assume $2000 in fees associated with these two loans. Both borrowers area offered a 4% interest rate over 30 years. On the $250k loan, the APR is 4.0662%. On the $50k loan, 4.3280%. 35k, 4.4665%.

I'm not an expert in the law, but these APRs, or the ratio of fees to loan may trigger anti-predatory lending laws.

I'm wondering if investing in for-profit companies is a major influence of this decision. With this, the LLC can invest in solar startups, or obscure medical companies. As a philanthropic enterprise, no one expects it gain profits from its investments. As a LLC, it isn't limited in where the money can go.

Not the commenter above, but I would certainly be interested in reading your full thoughts on this! As an entry level developer I send feedback up the chain by default.

On your first point, I agree that the message is most often overshadowed by delivery. But I also agree with mentat's point that at some point "um" can make the speaker sound stupid.

> It's not good managerial advice to say, "Tell your employees they sound stupid if they are bad public speakers!" It's better managerial advice to say, "Know your employees, and how each individual might be best motivated, and don't accept complacency."

I completely agree with this, and I got this from the article/video as well. In the "um" story, the manager tries twice to tell her in a nice way, offering to bring in a coach, etc, but she doesn't get it. Knowing her employee, she tells her that she sounds stupid and this works. Kim says in her talk that Sheryl had done several things to establish trust in their relationship previously, so she knew that this case was not a personal attack.

To which someone could respond "But my job isn't public speaking, it is doing X" where X is providing ads, making widgets, etc. No matter how many times you rephrase, you may hit a point where you just say "you sound stupid" or "you're not good at this job".

In my opinion, the whole point of this talk is that giving honest feedback without tact is better than no feedback at all. If someone just doesn't get it when you say it diplomatically, just cut the fluff and say what you need to say.

And this would have been a third attempt in the same vein. Kim may have then replied "Why does it matter if I am a good public speaker, the numbers were great!", in which case, you have to remove the last case of sugar coating and tell it how it is.

So on a whim, I put some system documentation that I wrote into the simple word writer linked on that page (xkcd.com/simplewriter). So many red words... perhaps that's a challenge suited for another day.

I've recently listened to the podcast Serial, and another called Undisclosed about the 1999 murder of a high school girl in Baltimore. Really interesting listen, and a of a scary view into the criminal justice system.

Planet Money had a recent podcast titled "The Onion King", where someone took physical control of onion futures, and why that is the one type of future outlawed by congress.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/episo...

"Agile" means Scrum at my workplace. I wish it meant Agile still.

They should just make those Apple Store employees into contractors </s>

I saw the same, but just by refreshing a bunch of times.

Once again, it will be easier to bring people to the data, than data to people.

"Commercial display panels NEC" led me to this: http://www.necdisplay.com/category/large-screen-displays

I like this design after seeing the second and third links, though the first link reminded me of something that I built in Prison Architect!

Agreed. I would only add to it their embedded "IoT" version.

30mpg at $2.25/gal is 7.5c per mile. Versus 9c for an EV (7c battery, 2c elec), this is a $1500 over 100k miles. If we consider the other maintenance costs, I think they are nearly equivalent.

I think that another alternative would be to increase the cost of vehicle registration as a percent of the vehicle cost. This way it is progressive and untied to fuel usage. Multi-car discounts could be given much like insurance (cars after the 1st do not add a full car's miles driven).

I think that you and evilolive can be each experiencing your respective problems. At times I've been the developer who has failed to update tasks for days/weeks. I've also been pressed for updates 5-6 times in a day by different managers and "managers". Both problems are fixed by all parties respecting others as people and doing their jobs correctly.

It is also similar to the criticism of CEO pay for nonprofits. If the CEO brings in additional donations and furthers the organization's mission, why wouldn't they have pay competitive to a for-profit org? Why should you be paid less to do good than evil?

or non-good, marginal good, regular doings, etc.

> She thought she was ordering a dose per kg, not a quantity of tablets.

Actually, she thought she was ordering a single dose at 160mg, and accidentally ordered dose per kg. 160 was the size of the dose, so the patient's weight became the number of pills.

I think the value is when the local police pay for the query as well.

I work in software development for a large financial services company. I can't speak to product innovation, but there is room for new ideas in how financial products are delivered. A couple examples off of the top of my head include banking aggregation under Mint or Personal Capital, remote check deposit, You Need A Budget (YNAB), or services like Digit that identify when you're less likely to miss money and pull it into savings.

These aren't new products or new wealth, but changing how people manage and interact with their finances.

My understanding is accounting - furniture is depreciated or amortized at a different rate than offices, and it is beneficial to the bean counters.