The speculation I have seen takes it deeper than that; 150 is (about) the limit for people that we know well enough to know how someone can help us with a problem, who will know more about it, and who not to ask to work in a group together (because they don't like each other or waste time together or whatever).
So it isn't that we are limited to knowing a little bit about 150 people, it is that we are limited to having a deeper understanding of about 150 people.
Yeah, I'm not claiming it has been a good investment or may be one in the short term, I'm just objecting to the idea that the market cap provides a complete evaluation of the company (certainly for people that own the company it provides a sufficient evaluation, but there is something strange about a company that books 31% of revenues as profit being priced for failure).
Yeah, the whole U.S. banking system is built around hoping nothing goes wrong and then working to leave someone else holding the bag when it does.
Credit card fraud gets charged back to merchants, banks open up lines of credit with minimal documentation and then send an innocent third party a collection notice, it's awesome.
Now convince me that the stock price staying about the same has nothing to do with perception of Microsoft shifting from a growth stock to a value stock, and the billions of dollars in dividends that have been paid out.
Stock prices are an opinion about the value of a company, not a fact. If they were facts, no one would ever make (or lose!) money "playing" the stock market.
I'm not proposing that it is particularly complicated, it just happens to be a somewhat well partitioned subsystem that is rather broad.
I also think that there are lots of people that have read books like that just enough to get their job done, but most of them would be lost if they were asked to write a similar book.
You are angry because you misunderstood what they were doing.
The second they injected seawater into each of reactors 1, 2 and 3, they knew they were abandoning the investment in those reactors. Since then, their efforts have been to restore active cooling, which is the best long term solution to the problem (they can bring the fuel under control, remove it and store it properly).
Gerrymandering seems to be somewhere in-between a scored algorithmic approach and proportional representation.
Especially when it is done to make safe seats and not to carve pockets of opponents into little pieces.
(Saying 'fair' in a political discussion is pointless, there isn't an objective definition of the word. Take cutting a candy bar in two. Some people say 50-50 is fair, others would pretend that it should be divided proportionally based on the size of the consumers, and on and on)
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They actually corrupted the PDFs. The cupcake instructions aren't even legible in a pdf viewer.
That was indeed the joke.
Well spotted.
It's only idiotic if you demand that it be accurate, if you use it as a framing of the discussion, it is a nice place to start.
The speculation I have seen takes it deeper than that; 150 is (about) the limit for people that we know well enough to know how someone can help us with a problem, who will know more about it, and who not to ask to work in a group together (because they don't like each other or waste time together or whatever).
So it isn't that we are limited to knowing a little bit about 150 people, it is that we are limited to having a deeper understanding of about 150 people.
Where can I get a Linksys for $6?
Yes, citizens having an open discussion about the hegemony is obviously a dire situation.
Yeah, I'm not claiming it has been a good investment or may be one in the short term, I'm just objecting to the idea that the market cap provides a complete evaluation of the company (certainly for people that own the company it provides a sufficient evaluation, but there is something strange about a company that books 31% of revenues as profit being priced for failure).
Yeah, the whole U.S. banking system is built around hoping nothing goes wrong and then working to leave someone else holding the bag when it does.
Credit card fraud gets charged back to merchants, banks open up lines of credit with minimal documentation and then send an innocent third party a collection notice, it's awesome.
The profits should be morer recordest.
Now convince me that the stock price staying about the same has nothing to do with perception of Microsoft shifting from a growth stock to a value stock, and the billions of dollars in dividends that have been paid out.
Stock prices are an opinion about the value of a company, not a fact. If they were facts, no one would ever make (or lose!) money "playing" the stock market.
Not really. In terms of absolute revenues, Microsoft has grown more than Google for most of the time Google has existed.
Given that Microsoft was starting at big and Google was starting at around 0 that isn't a huge achievement, but it isn't stagnation either.
Any involvement with the Wikipedia sham is a strike against them.
I'm not proposing that it is particularly complicated, it just happens to be a somewhat well partitioned subsystem that is rather broad.
I also think that there are lots of people that have read books like that just enough to get their job done, but most of them would be lost if they were asked to write a similar book.
I'm under the impression that the various vendors tools still do this.
Seriously?
I bet there are about 100 people in the world that come anywhere close to understanding USB in its entirety.
Same for lots of other shit in there.
Andy Rooney's sysadmin manages the card catalog at a library that refuses to computerize.
Presumably they are not simply using a hat. So they may end up with a few exceptional people.
Don't drop a bomb like that and then leave us in suspense!
How well should they work?
Don't go too far out on a limb, I mean, there are still people that have pagan beliefs thousands of years after Jesus came.
You are angry because you misunderstood what they were doing.
The second they injected seawater into each of reactors 1, 2 and 3, they knew they were abandoning the investment in those reactors. Since then, their efforts have been to restore active cooling, which is the best long term solution to the problem (they can bring the fuel under control, remove it and store it properly).
Trying to bury it would have been foolish.
That's fine. My point was more that if he is the one writing the articles, you might as well frame your comment around "Glenn Greenwald reporting".
Linking Glenn Greenwald thrice probably doesn't carry any more weight than just linking him once.
That thrice was brought to you by Conan.
Gerrymandering seems to be somewhere in-between a scored algorithmic approach and proportional representation.
Especially when it is done to make safe seats and not to carve pockets of opponents into little pieces.
(Saying 'fair' in a political discussion is pointless, there isn't an objective definition of the word. Take cutting a candy bar in two. Some people say 50-50 is fair, others would pretend that it should be divided proportionally based on the size of the consumers, and on and on)
I look forward to my own approximate death.
How much of the time table slippage was because you were making sure that you were well booked if the weather cooperated?
I mean, did you even try to communicate the laundry list of things you think people can't understand to your customers?