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I think that the root of this issue is the stupid Google policy of not distinguishing any variation of your address if a '.' character is in there -- until someone registers it. Pe…

I'd interpret this as someone with high income/low net worth. Think someone from a random middle class background that got good grades an above average public college. Basically, i…

We're not talking about retail investors getting fleeced by big traders. We're talking about $100M positions held by professional traders who were told to go pound sand by the exch…

I had a similar experience, except I put my order in at 11 and was able to successfully cancel it at 12:30 as the order queue was processed. It took 20 minutes to process the cance…

Go to Home Depot. You can now make PayPal mobile payments. You're going to use your bank for payments because you already have low-cost ways to make payments already (ie. checks, d…

How many coins were created daily 3 years ago?

Drivers always have the authority to eject passengers. If they get resistance, they call the cops. I'm not sure when they would clean a bus though. I'd rather have my bus driver dr…

User count is only one dimension of the value that Facebook has. The user connections are arguably the more important dimension. As Facebook figures out more ways to be a more perv…

Perhaps you are stuck in some weird loop due to attending school in different states, or have attended really lousy schools. When i was in elementary school in NYC, we learned abou…

NASDAQ allows any D-list dignitary type to "ring the bell". It's a total sham. See: http://www.nasdaq.com/marketsite/bell-event.html I have to respect Zuckerberg for not wasting th…

Not really. Microsoft wants to make significant money on it's investment in developing operating system software. Samsung wants to make money on it's manufacturing operations. You …

EBay horror stories are usually transactional based on buyer/seller conflict. (including fraud) In those cases, Paypal is just the party stuck in the middle. On the positive side, …

Sen. Schumer is in many ways the senatorial equivalent of a personal injury lawyer who advertises on the back of a bus. He's a good politician, but a master self-promter. He focuse…

The tone of the article implies that TED is somehow suppressing the dissemination of this speech because it's content is somehow too controversial to handle. I declare it inane bec…

I've seen a few mentions about this fairly inane speech -- smells like PR/astroturfing to me. Frankly, whenever I hear the phrase "job creation" I tune out immediately, because I k…

I think you hit it on the head. I'd break down the 75% a little further in my case: - 25% Poisonous people in key architectural/infrastructure positions who actively make it as dif…

Good writers move up the organizational and/or salary ladder. Good technicians or engineers who cannot communicate end up making the guy who translates whatever they are doing to t…

Roundabouts are great in suburban or low-volume urban environments where speeds are low. But they can be dangerous for pedestrians in areas where you have a high density of traffic…

Interesting POV -- you can get away without traffic lights in the country or in places where other forms of transit (ie. public transit & walking) are more prevalent than cars. You…

Basically, the guy is a genius. Read his Wikipedia bio. Praise of the man: "The one talent of David's that stands out is his ability to lay out a course of action that would take i…

There's probably some corruption in there as well. Management doesn't give a crap about the work function, and only one vendor is qualified to respond to the maintenance RFP. So so…

Google is great at targeting with search based ads, but the site-based ads are awful. Google thinks I'm really into gold coins based on me clicking on some story on reddit several …

It's your ethical duty to click! Seriously though, my local weekly newspaper knows nothing about my habits, but offers ads 10x more relevant than Google, who has been tracking me f…

I don't really see the big deal about suits. I look good in them, and would wear them more but for the cost of acquiring and maintaining them. Many folks, particularly in IT, dress…