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Translation: Companies idea of "Market Rate" is not, in fact "Market Rate".

The license starts off with the typical 'without restriction', then promptly adds badgeware restrictions. Shame.

A good way to treat the risk: If, instead of the stock, you had been given the equivalent cash value (at today's prices) - would you choose to invest all of it in GOOG stock? I wou…

Whilst population continues to rise, you'll be waiting a long time for your "correction".

Really? A mortgage repayment £3200 implies a mortgage amount of £800,000. Most people I know don't have houses costing that much, even in London.

The Emperor's New Mind (and the followup whose name I forget). There's a rather scratchy recorded documentary here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVq39QbFQXE See also: https://en.…

Nope. Go read Penrose. There are problems that the brain can solve, but you can (provably) show that an algorithm cannot. For example - tesselation on an infinite plane.

Don't we have Universities for this? I mean - what's the point of spending 3-4 years in an Academic environment that proceeds to then test and grade students on exactly how good th…

True. In fact, it's even stranger in the UK, or so I'm told... Trains have drivers. Some stations have shorter platforms than others. Thus at those stations a smaller number of tra…

So, a pilot explains why we all will forever need to have pilots. I am friends with a pilot (commercial 737 short-haul captain for a 'value' european airline). He will happily tell…

Been done - on ARM instruction sets, no less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_microprocessor

In accounts, we often hilight negative numbers in red. It's one of the defaults in things like excel. So red text has come to mean '-'. '-' is also 'taken away', so I can see why i…

Huh? Git is GPLv2.

Yes, but you can't tell in your editor if you've got \t int b); or \t\t int b); Because they'll look the same to you, but not to anyone else without 4-space-tabs.

That's an argument against public film financing, not in favour of higher marginal taxation on the wealthy.