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Can a young man with a knife defeat a grizzly bear?
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Yesterday
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"The most important things to remember:
1. If the question asks for feet, radius, or minutes, do not give it inches, diameter, or hours. Even really bright people make these errors.
2. Often, on Critical Reasoning questions, the answer that seems..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jourman2, ThePinkSuperhero
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Now you're changing your story. Good luck to you.
No, I'm not. Valuation is a range. Ex-post, I suppose you can say it's a number, but ex-ante it's the product of a collection of sensitive assumptions.
My story, which is not changing, is that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Arch_Stanton, bonaldi
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Apple's up $5. I guess people like that stock "overpriced".
1. Are those summary quotes? I never used that word, so I don't know why you linked to my comment.
2. I never said that AAPL was mispriced-- I said that it was a "high..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by geoff.
11 days ago
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"At the risk of derailing, why does the investment become less desirable to you as the principal gets paid down? You get 10% on whatever amount is outstanding, and the rest is in your pocket. If you leave it there (or worse, spend it!) then the amount..." [
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11 days ago
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"This winter I'll be living in Connecticut in an unheated house... the decision not to have heating this winter is because evidently they paid a mint in central heating last winter just to keep the house in the 50s.
I don't think "they"..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by schnee, rtha, tenderman kingsaver, konolia, pointystick, lizzicide, chiababe, eatdonuts, peep, dirigibleman, qvtqht, roomthreeseventeen, Slap*Happy, Kangaroo
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Awesome. Now I have something to use to make libertarians shut up every time they get going.
The fire department-- the public fire department-- inexplicably forgets to bring the magical tool, and somehow doesn't have a tanker truck, but it's still..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by FuManchu
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"And there's no way she's prepard to take over if McCain dies.
I've heard this from a number of times already, and I don't think the Obama supporters making this claim realize how ridiculous it sounds coming from them. Four years as a Senator is..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Mblue, Mr.Encyclopedia, konolia, vorpal bunny
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is really what the call for re-regulation is about. Management will still have the same power to dictate profits as before, but now unions will be made de facto illegal, or at least pointless.
Sure. Because if there's one thing the management..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Perplexity, gsteff, BrotherCaine
Last month
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"In fact, it's impossible to go two rounds anywhere without being accused of being an apologist for genocide, nuclear war, patriarchy, homophobia, capitalism, and the destruction of humanity.
By thinking that one of those things is not like the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by manguero
Last month
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"I assumed you're talking about Thomas Friedman.
I can't speak for zabuni, but it sure does trouble me that when someone hears of a "free marketer" named "Friedman," the "Thomas Friedman" bell rings. Because it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mek
Last month
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"If people were buying all the US dollars they could get their hands on so that they could show them off to friends without actually spending them, then their not actually giving the dollars any value. the dollars would have to remain in circulation..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Obviously you have never sat a Real Estate exam. You know, the thing you have to pass in order to get a Real Estate license....a lot of folks don't pass it the first time.
I'm sure it puts the actuary exams to shame...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by peacheater, Optimus Chyme
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"so why don't more libertarians see the potential for the abuse of corporate power?
Many libertarians believe that government is likelier to reinforce and buttress corporate power than to be a check upon it. If, as you say, government and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaltavian
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The idea that Obama and McCain are indistinguishable on policy is, however, simply not true.
Right. Though neither of them give a rat's ass about my "rights," the former wants to raise my taxes. Which will get him the votes of 90% of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, BigSky
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous."
She went 43 years without once being really proud of her country. She may have misspoke, or her remarks may have..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by davidmsc, vorpal bunny, Scoo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Kids assume they can violate property that isn't theirs and even build a structure without permission or permit on public land. You better believe people are going to get upset and rightfully so.
If those kids would have painted "McCain =..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by bitterpants, five fresh fish, smackwich
3 months ago
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"Don't fool yourself into thinking that because you are at a top 20 school the education you get is any better than a different school, and don't fool yourself into thinking that you or your classmates are a lot smarter than people at worse schools...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by geoff.
3 months ago
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"Maybe you're young enough that it matters for some reason, but in my corner of the world, people don't put months on the resume:
1999-2002 JANITOR, Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA
2002-2004 INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE SPECIALIST, Microsoft Corp, Redmond,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, Jacqueline, lindsey.nicole, carbide, brookedel
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, so when they said "The World's Top Public Intellectuals" they meant "The World's Top Public Intellectuals" (as voted by Western, non-Muslim, internet connected, Prospect readers)? Makes sense to me... sounds like a rational..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Krrrlson
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The following was a blogspot post from a first-year MBA student who wisely removed it when it started getting linked everywhere. I was not that student, as I know better. I saved it.
How the Banks Differ
Okay, I'm almost done with all of this..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by bardic, poq, Jody Tresidder, ruelle, thedaniel, telstar, ryoshu, chime, skwt
3 months ago
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"mullacc, per usual, has the best answer in the thread.
Step 1 for a budding investor is to understand financial statements.
Step 2 is to understand the drivers of value.
(and if you write Damodaran a nice email, he'll clarify things he wrote in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kikkoman, ZenMasterThis
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think that exact phrase queries put a bit more strain on the server than just plain simple ones
If you stupid fucks would purge the inactive accounts we wouldn't have this goddamn problem...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kev23f
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Marx was a passionate and tireless advocate of people fighting for democracy and freedom
As if they were one and the same..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kolophon
3 months ago
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"I can't decide whether I'm more irritated by the knucklehead authorities or the OMG you scarred our precious children crowd. I reckon they deserve each other...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've been around this site (in lurkform or active) for 2002, 2004, 2006 and now 2008 and from my perspective this year has been the most civil and substantive. This may be the distortions of memory but 2004 was the pits of ElectionFilter. I'm..." [
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4 months ago
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"Phrontist is right, and judging by your allocation of a best answer, I suspect that he addressed this substance of your question. But you asked a lot of questions, and I'd like to come at this from a different angle, with a few points that hope to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lunchbox, Miko
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Miko, I don't know where to begin.
First, I seriously doubt that you've ever worked in a factory. I have, and it sucked. Driving Screw A into Slot B is no more edifying than stocking shelves at a retailer. Toaster manufacture is even lower-skilled..." [
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4 months ago
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Which cruciferous vegetables should I eat?
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5 months ago
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"I absolutely love baseball, but I hate long games.
A two-hour game is pure heaven, and because every man reaching base is meaningful, the suspense/minute ratio is off the charts.
Also, there's a special breed of purist who absolutely hates..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"this is a legal question not "what is your personal opinion about my life choices" question - take it to MeTa if you have to tell the poster off.
I suppose I understand the MeTa-as-release-valve theory, and I'm quite able to scroll past..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by geoff.
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But just as the prices were supposed to fall again, they rose to almost double the mean index value. That's insane. Is there any non-catastrophic explanation for this?... Um, did you not read the article at all? It's not just oil. It's the 22 most..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by infinitefloatingbrains, dyoneo, Lord_Pall, Sitegeist, AdamCSnider, w.fugawe, nasreddin, sebastienbailard, Slithy_Tove
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"All this hand-wringing and argumentation over what is largely a financial decision, that given well-defined constraints and reasonable assumptions, is pretty easy. More than one post in this thread fails to consider opportunity costs.
This was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
6 months ago
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"If this question is anonymous, why not give the value of X? Because answers might be different for values of $1,000,000 and $10,000." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MLIS
6 months ago
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"It's very difficult to make the jump into banking or investment management from anything other than undergrad or business school. And to be honest getting into the kind of business school that can get you into the industries you want to work in* is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rux
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And anyway, a carbon tax is by far the best way to solve the majority of these problems and their relatives. I really wonder how poorly the implementation of a carbon policy (in the US) will go...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Popular Ethics, geoff.
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is what a BMI of 40 looks like.
How many zeros are there between the decimal point and the number 1 in the proportion of people with 40 BMIs who are built similarly to Ronnie Coleman?..." [
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8 months ago
