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Few? Here is another: mining

“Many Navajo people have died of kidney failure and cancer, conditions linked to uranium contamination. And new research from the CDC shows uranium in babies born now.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/10/4735472...

We should have put that money towards the F-35.

Two processes can't write simultaneously to the same table partition.

This piece has left me confused

Last I heard you couldn't "force" a tenured professor to do anything. Dismiss over a text book? laughable

Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post (edited: Not Amazon, but Bezos owns WP)

A fool and his money, be soone at debate: which after with sorow, repents him to late.

Yes, it is opposite in grad school. Recessions bring U.S. students. In a booming economy, qualified students take high-paying jobs. In a recession, they ride it out in grad school. (I only have anecdotal evidence for this claim.)

This hurts Google, but not Apple. Why ever order Apple device from Amazon.com? Seems very risky.

I'm not exactly sure what your asking, but basically randomness in returns decreases as you increase the sampling rate (i.e. annual returns are more normal than say minutely returns). This is due basically to the fact that the more activity happens between measurements. (I could be misunderstanding your question.) High frequency measurements of prices often exhibit regularities that result from the trading mechanism e.g. bid-ask bounce.

Type "Whatsapp" into LinkedIn and you will get some idea, but probably biased towards more junior people. I agree would be interesting to see.

Are you saying there is no story here?

It is square, but it was no competitor. Google around about Prada v iPhone.

I agree. I think it would be cool to see a full history.

Cell phones before and after iPhone

http://bit.ly/1JZ6MwF

If you like this, you will also like the documentary "Alone in the Wilderness" -- see http://www.dickproenneke.com

The Wall Street MBA by Advani

"Analytics is often the single largest infrastructure expense for a company." I'm interested in seeing some supporting evidence. Listed references do not refer to any study or real evidence. This may be true for companies that entire strategy is analytics or ad-based. (See Deloitte 2014 CIO survey -- lots of companies not even doing analytics or feel they are not spending enough on analytics.)

Then why do we do it?

We (USA) have a gigantic navy base replete with nuclear weapons 1000mi from China mainland. Where is the closest Chinese nuke base to the US?

Worthless article that doesn't go into any details

Such as?

28 seconds to start a Wheelys? It takes longer than that to make a pour over coffee...

Why can't it involve "boring"?

Cool, but very slow in my browser.

The only good innovation in the intervening century was the ATM..

Build a strip mall? I think the value of the beach is that it lacks strip malls.

Text messaging is cross platform

They received loans, which they have paid back.

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/