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There's evidence that bigger and bigger banks don't achieve more efficiency: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/big-banks-are-not-mor...

Except that Tim Cook has said on shareholder calls that they have more cash than they know what to do with. At that point they should distribute more to shareholders.

Seconded. My wife takes our twin two year olds to the library twice a week for library story time and to play with the gigantic Thomas the Tank Engine. Both my wife and my kids lik…

For the newest versions of Windows (Server 2012, Windows 8) .NET comes installed -- I forget if it's installed by default or installs as a Windows component. If it's the latter you…

Funny coming from the guy who said he'd shut down Apple and return all the money to shareholders: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html How's that Apple company doing anyway? …

That's all fine and well for people like us that don't necessarily do hard labor for 30-40 years. But those that have to do physical labor aren't actually living longer. The rise i…

According to my recruiter's stats he told me that 93% of those that accepted counter-offers from their original company were looking for a job again within 6 months. The two scenar…

Moore's law was simply an observation or a prediction about the computing market at that time: That the number of transistors on a chip would need to double every 18 months if the …

He's with another woman that he met online and married six weeks after his divorce was final. Now he's not paying any child support. http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/…

We do know what happened to the father according to previous blog posts: http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war... tl;dr; he left her for some woman he met on…

Then down the line the smart people from those firms can disrupt the existing players at their own game or a new game when the current-elite get lazy or can't innovate. That's how …

Summary: Author hopes we don't find life on Mars because if it's dead that provides an ill omen for the human race. He thinks if life on Mars wasn't sustainable then he repeats the…

Just replace it with Smarch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RCs2RKiLlA http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Smarch "Smarch is the thirteenth month of the year, according to Springfield El…

I think OOP really took off in industry because it was easy to sell third-party modules. You could "plug in" this module that you purchased and it was easy to hook up. Markets have…

The classic name for the "Keep moving the extremes so people's opinion converge on the gradually moving middle" is called the Overton window and politicians try to employ it all th…

Well don't forget that they were doing tablets all the way back in 2002. They just didn't have the foresight or guts to revamp the ecosystem around it. So the tablets didn't work b…

For a while it was because they had pre-purchased all of their fuel at 2000ish oil prices using long-term futures contracts. The bet turned out to be extremely lucrative for them. …

So... the takeaway is to stop adding bugs to programs you write? Heh, I've been trying to do that since day 1. Seriously, now, it appears that experts are more akin to taking the s…

Because other companies don't announce news on Friday at 4:00pm... Or because the White House doesn't make important news announcements on Christmas Eve when nobody's paying attent…

Hmm, my comments don't really reflect this, but I agree with you. I think the end result of a system like this would be that software patents would be next-to-nothing worthless and…

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Maybe they were all AS400 admins that really have nowhere else to go?

@andrewcooke: There is an analogous situation to property taxes though -- Rezoning a property. If you can acquire land zoned for something cheaper like residential or agriculture a…

I would also love to have 1 sq mile of land in downtown Manhattan on which to develop a high-rise. But I'm just a little guy. The darn property tax system is set out to screw me. T…

From high horse: Well one more reason Android is better than iOS. Coming down from high horse: Oh crap, my phone's software is programmed by an advertising company... Conclusion: M…