aptimpropriety

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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
"But this year it seems like the seal is broken, and we've seen major companies delivering internship and full-time offers with 2 week (and less) hard deadlines. Other companies now routinely deliver expiring bonus offers for sig
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
Mental math (and arithmetic tricks) are pretty important for scoring high on the GMAT (for MBA admissions). No calculator is allowed, and while you can solve by pen and paper, for a very time constrained test, tricks can be the difference b
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
I was young for my year after being pushed ahead a grade. I did fine academically, socially, etc. Two factors that make me want to start my future kids late: -Social maturity: it's way easier to handle social dynamics with a year extra
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
Another good explanation: http://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/26/beware-of-the-year-end-mutual... If these securities have been held for <1 year, their gain/loss goes into the short term bucket. So losses (in
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
Stasis' logic is along the right lines - you need to think about it in terms of portfolio management strategy. Effectively, the manager is trying to switch as much of the gains of their fund from being taxed at 40% to being taxed at 15
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
But Fidelity isn't writing down the value of the company, it's writing down the value of its shares. Do you have any guesses as to what this means, given they are probably the most senior equityholders on this investment? My suspi
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
Postmortems like this are always a bit unfair. You ask employees who lost their job when the company folded what was wrong with the company, and they'll air every little complaint or inefficiency that existed within the company. Isn&#x
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
The other thing that comes to mind is that they are a business fundamentally reliant upon distribution. Of course they should be building out a footprint, and marketing their services in sync with their technological development. It seems l
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
Their founder, Chris, is actually a former McKinsey guy. The thought was exactly that - to align 'McKinsey pitch deck thinking' with professional design. I've used their service and was pretty happy with it. A large share of
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by aptimpropriety 11y ago
This is pretty crazy analysis for what I see to be a pretty simple phenomenon. Put the truncated "Oh" in front of the "no", in order to indicate emotional sentiment, and you have your simple explanation. "oh no&quot
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by aptimpropriety 12y ago
Have a look at 1010Data: https://www.1010data.com/solutions/by-industry/financial-ser... and https://www.1010data.com/partners/detail/data-providers This stuff is already being done lega
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by aptimpropriety 13y ago
Small nitpick: my understanding (perhaps moreso in more sound-dependent FPS) is that pro gamers are already sound shielded. The two headsets were 1) voice chat with your team 2) large 'surround sound' headphones that really signal
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by aptimpropriety 13y ago
In the summer of 2007 I was doing a bunch of research as to whether or not to buy a few shares of $100-$130 Apple stock. I knew the iPhone was coming, and I thought it was going to be big. The reason I eventually decided the iPhone was goin
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by aptimpropriety 13y ago
Also interesting to note that while car sales in the US declined steeply in '07 and '08, they are slated to have a consecutive record sales year in 2013, possibly surpassing the record year of 2005. [1] In the last 5 years, many manufacture
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by aptimpropriety 13y ago
An analogy that comes to mind - physical exercise. When you are stopped doing exercise (e.g. running at a traffic light), people often will jog in place. Obvious reasons - keep heart rate from large deltas, muscles warm/responding well, etc
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by aptimpropriety 13y ago
I think you're right - the post fails to address how big of a necessary / not necessarily negative component of our foreign policy/diplomacy is centered around arms trade. I'm no expert on the subject, but have worked with people with exper
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by aptimpropriety 13y ago
It's never too late to transfer - and being a transfer doesn't make you ineligible for financial aid! I went to a major public university my freshman year and transferred to an Ivy League school once I decided I wasn't satisfied with my ex
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by aptimpropriety 13y ago
You've said what I've been trying to articulate for a long time - in much better terms than I ever could. Thank you! I like the dichotomy of songwriter vs. producer - but I would guess it isn't always so discrete - i.e., production and mast
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
It bothers me a bit when people link this to 'explain away' pop music. It's my belief this is an oversimplification - many of these songs are written in different keys, which can create different sounds and feelings of songs. Sure, you can
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
It's definitely the native feel. I think for a lot of non-technical people, engaging on a tablet makes them feel like they finally are on top of technology - a sense of control. Perhaps it could be equated to the feeling of mastery when you
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
As someone pretty close to the Fortune 500, I'd like to refute the ego point. Having a quality app - especially with iPads, and especially with higher-spending consumers - is a business necessity. You lose out on a lot of engagement and mos
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
Curious - as someone totally ignorant to the nuances of Stripe - why doesn't Stripe offer a very simple, OOB checkout solution? What would prevent them from doing so, which in theory could be a nice additional revenue stream for them (steal
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
Every one of these articles gets the pitch of these toilets completely wrong - for every person, and in every scenario, these are not universally better. Consider the following experiment: Smear some mud on your arm. Now, using a jet stream
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
I think it's worth listing the things people already pay $50 (or more) for: -TV / Internet / Phone bundle -Electricity -Water -Car insurance -Gym memberships (?) -Daycare -Food -Interest (home mortgages / loans etc.) -Clothes Almost all of
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
FWIW, the dreams of the 'end-all pill' fall short for a wide variety of reasons - one of the major ones being volume of ingredients necessary. For many recommended doses of vitamins / minerals, you simply need more than the total weight of
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by aptimpropriety 14y ago
A somewhat similar corollary - 'Lovaza', sold by GSK. It contains Omega-3-acid ethyl esters. Also widely known as fish oil, and is prescribed for the same reasons fish oil is recommended in supplementation. Only difference is fish oil is ma
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by aptimpropriety 15y ago
"It's not a waiting game, it's a game of poker. Lamar Smith has a royal flush and few people know it. SOPA may pass. It may not. He doesn't care, and it doesn't matter. The MPAA and RIAA started working on their legislative strategy to pass
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by aptimpropriety 15y ago
I wish the author hadn't spent so much time on 'I beat the CDC score required to binge drink, therefore it must be wrong' to get to the actual point. It made his argument seem incredibly nit-picky. While 'the number of drinks imbibed is the
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by aptimpropriety 15y ago
Is there any data on how many actual potential donors did a sample as a result of this campaign? The 7000+ reblogs is a very impressive number - but I'd bet nowhere near all 7000 went through the process. Would those 7000 reblogs even resul
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by aptimpropriety 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#Prevention This is (in part) explained in the box to the right. Then there is also the 'population statistics' differences. Epidemiology is a strange field. Because of the difficulty of balancing specific

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