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Nikki Krishnamurthy - the center of this scandal - came there from Washington Mutual, one of the most famous implosions from the 2008 Big Crash along with Bear Sterns and Lehman Br…

When the Chinese banned opium the British went to war to reopen that market because it was so profitable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars It seems like many drugs are banne…

The abstract would seem to suggest methamphetamine is one correlation; you might also reasonably suggest toxoplasmosis and I have heard a naturopath suggest that it can be treated …

Bret Devereaux's writing is often cited here for his writing about warfare, logistics, and the like. But he occasionally writes also about his own profession and the difficulties i…

I'm reminded of "Red Dwarf" How many of us saw this and thought "anti-drone lasers can't come soon enough"?

Would anyone be interested in organizing a class action lawsuit against Ross Teixeira and Princeton?

They bought it for data gathering and market/competitor research. I was with Amazon at the time. Was great for keeping track of what products were drawing most traction on eBay (Lo…

That's Mike Daisey, he did a tour called "Doing Time At Amazon.com"

Not generally, but maybe as "Borat In The Wild West"

Your username suggests an option, but I shall hope you are focused on solar at the moment

That doesn't seem to be the case per NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...

As a man who is safely out of the closet for quite a while now, has seen the scourge of AIDS amongst my circles of friends, and has spent a great deal of time effort and money educ…

I'm somewhat astounded to hear they have 972 employees. I would have guesstimated somewhere below 200. Even with a huge marketing push, I'm a little at a loss for what they all do.…

I'm so glad I live in Palo Alto

I pay more like $200 a month for a significantly more expensive car in Palo Alto. I have a clean driving record and a mainstream insurance policy. You should get competitive bids!

I dunno, I think a lot of us love LISP :)

Walmart has circa 2.1M employees, but they are the only exception that comes to mind

Surely you don't mean "ever been"? I don't know how long it took them to get to ten million players in the first place but I'm imagining it wasn't on day one :) And semantic point …

As I write this it's circa $7000 from goal and I'm tempted to put it over myself. I loved that game back in the day, and it's being produced by the same guys who made the original.…

People are fussing because the guys are homeless. If the mobile hotspot-wearers had been the usual crowd of imported booth babes, no one would have blinked an eye.

For better or worse, you're likely to get better results to your work requests by putting these same devices in chosen offshore locations; you're arbitraging median-skill median-li…

I don't think I have as much screen real estate as this was designed for, and I don't tend to browse in full-screen mode. You should consider letting people use scrollbars. I can't…

I am definitely going to write a "THEY LIVE" plugin