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It is better now, but amusingly - "The other guy is not as well as you, but better with bowling.", in this case it should be "The other guy is not as good as you". Great article, t…

The point isn't that the founder loses 200k out of his pocket, it's that the founder loses out on a potential of 200k by taking a lower salary working on the startup instead of wor…

I used to intern at a company that manufactured credit cards. If I recall correctly, this actually is in place in South American countries. Due to relatively low fraud rates, credi…

If the teacher didn't bother enough to read the paper and fail him, maybe he deserves the degree that he got. Though someone stated that (not sure if this is fact) there is no stat…

Okay, I am confused. Assuming rebalancing, it seems to me that your wait time EV is the same either way, with less variance in the single queue case. Thus the shopper throughput sh…

People writing "loose", when they really mean "lose".

I disagree with the title. Not all ideas are good ideas, so having an idea that is worth executing is certianly not worthless. Obviously, if you dont execute it then it becomes wor…

The author is guilty of time traveling here. Obviously now we know that social networking CAN be viral. Its always easy to look back and say "how did they miss that?". Also, buzz w…

Its funny and entertaining, but I still feel more confused than informed.

Yeah but in this case the credit card company pays a $37 referal bonus, which makes it unprofitable especially if the card isnt used very often.

What exactly were you expecting?