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They are expecting to be bailed out, just like everyone else.

Anything with real intrinsic value will do well. For equities, that means value stocks over growth stocks.

In my experience, the best approach is to treat the notebook as the frontend. So widgets, graphs, annotations are generally ok. Anything compute intensive should be relegated to th…

How a blockchain works.

This is simply solved with intermarriages. Make 2 people 1. Happened throughout history. When it didn't, led to conflict.

Symbolic moving, and possible stepping stone to other actions. Technicalities don't matter.

In Savings and Loan crises of 80s, wall streets banks lost all the money they made during the previous 25 years. In the current crises, I dont know the exact number but it is worse…

So what happens when each node in the decision tree has probability attached to it. Worse still, what happens when you do not know the true probabilities of these nodes. Now imagin…

These guys ( http://www.visualspatial.com/ ) would not be happy with the way results of this research are framed. This research seems to be suggesting that auditory-sequential (AS)…

Actually, the author is clearly stating the causal relationship. He is pointing out that free market fundamentalism is the cause of the crises and Business schools are the cheerlea…

I think this executive and all those who want to bury this guy are missing an important point. In financial markets, you cannot judge performance simply by results, because it is v…

Ok, so certain mental abilities deteriorate. Maybe, some other mental abilities improve. The problem with this research is that it is trying look at brain from a certain view point…

My view is that people think in (1) words (2) pictures and (3) concepts. How much of each depends upon the individual. As for myself, I think mostly in pictures and concepts, very …

To all those who share the personality traits of this "friend" of the blogger, how many of you believe your coding speed is slower than other hackers? From coding speed, I mean, sa…

An honest self-assessment is essential for hiring into your weakness. Unfortunately, most people are unable or unwilling to do that.

Intelligence is a grand notion indeed. Check out the notion of multiple intelligences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligence... IQ scores are useful for asses…

Yes, thats true, some people might suck at everything. But that can be managed as long as thats a small enough minority. (we have government welfare for a reason, right? :)) The hy…

I can bet that woman must be good at something she has never been tested on and probably does not know about. Maybe if we start from the premise that most individuals have somethin…

The lack of transparency in oil futures trading has been a concern for many, not just trading in itself. See http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=257862

Agree. Anybody who pins the blame on any one side is an ignorant idealogue. People who think like that can only create problems, not solve any.

"..it's not hard to find poor societies or societies with long histories of oppression where the thar mentality is much less virulent. Instead, I argue that the thar mentality caus…

I've played blackjack in vegas, and I am also working on my web app these days. The latter is relatively harder