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Yep. I wonder if they track stats on how many people do that.

Is the introduction of a poisonous dichotomy into the engineering zeitgeist a good thing? Consider what this has done for politics.

More accurately: "How to let a single oxycontin pill nearly ruin your life."

I think the guy made a couple serious missteps here that created a bad situation and then made it a lot worse: 1. He got into the car carrying narcotics that he wasn't legally allo…

This would suck but it sounds a lot better than being straight-up blind.

Agree. It surely would also cost a lot of time (and therefore, money) to determine a 'correct' uneven distribution.

I think firing the guy and leaving it at that is the optimal thing for BK to do. Let's agree that it probably won't be cost effective to garnish the guy's wages, in terms of legal …

Found randomly while looking up 'tempest in a teapot'.

Without reading the article, what I imagined was a mad billionaire trying to eradicate life on earth by 2025. Yes, I realize 500 tons is far too small to do that.

Yep. Here's an example: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ABIO When I checked this page, the last displayed trade was $0.737.

What the linked article doesn't discuss is that it is possible to get a real-time notification when a trade occurs. The price of the last trade is the mid-point that you are referr…

I had a point early in my career where I accepted a 5 hour daily commute (round trip) in order to accomplish the more important goal of finding meaningful work in my field in the r…

How about an option for: "Mixed bag: some components are exhaustively tested, others not at all, many in between."

I think you could go one of two ways with this: 1. Consume live market data and use an exchange simulator that always gives you back a fill. 2. Use a true exchange simulator, which…