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    Re good dual boilers at the moment, for ~analog I would check out ECM Synchronika with flow control. For ~digital, Decent DE1. And Niche Zero for grinder.

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    Comment #9912616

    Opera, called Text Wrap under settings. Works great.

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    Comment #6837691

    Manulife Asset Management - Boston, MA (full-time) Looking for an Associate Portfolio Analyst to do interesting data science-y things related to asset management -- from the firm-l…

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    Comment #1619191

    http://www.biadvisors.com sells this behavioral analysis of investor calls as a service.

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    Comment #1017802

    http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html

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    Comment #955088

    Here is another free book, which teaches statistics through R: Introduction to Statistical Thought http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html I can also recommend the Statist…

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    Comment #875007

    Scrivener (for the Mac) is one you might try. PersonalBrain (multi-platform) might also do the trick.

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    Comment #819730

    Someone please tell me "there's an app for that" on current retail hardware: Now, Dr. Haritaoglu has come up with a wireless solution to these translation blues: a cellphone or pal…

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    Comment #819692

    > What good is that when show up in Japan and can't read any of the signs around you? Anyone have an idea of how difficult it would be to do an augmented reality iPhone app that wo…

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    Comment #801380

    A very interesting and well-done course on many of the vagaries of US copyright law from MIT OCW (video lectures) that might be relevant to the discussion: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWe…

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    Comment #113241

    I've always wondered why we really haven't seen more franchising of U.S. schools among the higher-tiers (beyond ITT Tech, U of Phoenix, etc.). And what's the real reason we see NYU…

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    Comment #113225

    Agreed. For good or ill, much of the (monetary) value of education is from what others think of it. You are totally right that if someone has a specific job like that mind, where t…

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    Comment #113170

    Thanks for pointing that out to me, I should have been clearer in my analysis. I've added an update to the bottom, and hopefully that helps: "...also please note that I am talking …

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    Comment #113008

    I think you are totally right given the current state of video lectures--they are like the first movies, just awkward translations of stage plays that don't take advantage of the w…

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    Comment #103210

    If dozens of teens started purposely driving their cars into trees then you would probably see those articles.

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    Comment #102245

    "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." - Milton Friedman

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    Comment #101264

    The only problem is that these funds don't start out trying to be correlated with each other--the most successful strategies are those that no one else is doing, since you, tautolo…

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    Comment #100483

    In addition to that PG article, you might also be interested in this video lecture by MIT Sloan professor Thomas Malone, where he discusses his book The Future of Work, which is ri…