donaldc

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by donaldc 12y ago
Says the study I cited, which compared historical shareholder returns for companies with stock voting arrangements like Google's to companies having one class of stock that each has one vote.
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by donaldc 12y ago
Exactly.
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by donaldc 12y ago
Yes, but eventually they'd have issued enough class A shares to make the class B shares less significant. Now Larry and Sergey can keep their majority votes safe forever. In the long run, to the likely detriment of Google shareholders.
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by donaldc 12y ago
Bad news for Google shareholders in the long run. Companies with multiple share classes having different voting rights tend to underperform companies with stock that is one share, one vote. Please note: that doesn't mean Google won&#x2
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by donaldc 13y ago
Would you be willing to bet $147M that someone hadn't figured out a way around that hardware security? I wouldn't..
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by donaldc 13y ago
You seem to be avoiding addressing the "prone" part of the equation.
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by donaldc 13y ago
Do you think it likely that an entire field that evolved over a period of thousands of years, has thousands of people doing the job all over the world daily, and is so common and important that there is scientific research performed on it
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by donaldc 13y ago
Of course between no school and school with loans the choice is clear (in an (post-)industrialized country, mind you). Doesn't always seem clear to me. The whole point of the article was that you could be saddled with loan payments f
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by donaldc 13y ago
Sounds like unreasonable seizure to me. The search didn't sound all that reasonable either.
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by donaldc 13y ago
Since the USPTO is financed by patent application fees it has a perverse incentive to continue promiscuously granting as many patents as possible. I would hope that filers for patents that are rejected would still get charged a fee. If th
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by donaldc 13y ago
You seem to be talking about some sort of very narrow non-motion definition of thermogenesis and I am not. I guess according to you, shivering because one is cold is not thermogenesis. If you want to know more about what I'm talking ab
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by donaldc 13y ago
I think it could be more than that. Studies have found that some people have burned off an increase of hundreds of calories a day just through an increase in fidgeting. And then there's this ( http://www.medicinenet.com/
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by donaldc 13y ago
His comment says more about the content of the article than most of the other comments. An article about sugar funded by ADM is not an objective source of information, due to the very large conflict of interest.
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by donaldc 13y ago
That line alone cost the article much of its credibility in my book. A scientific article should not lump all sugars together as metabolically equivalent.
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by donaldc 13y ago
Not the full thirty pounds, but it could definitely be a contributing factor. And, if one's extremities get warmer while one's core temperature remains the same, the same amount of clothing is worn, and the ambient temperature rem
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by donaldc 13y ago
It can be even worse than that. Studies have found some HFCS to contain as much as 65% fructose.
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by donaldc 13y ago
Unless you started exercising, these two statements are incompatible with one another (violates the first law of thermodynamics). What's more likely is you felt "fuller" from eating healthy foods and therefore consumed less
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by donaldc 13y ago
It's quite possible they should stop being farmers and that the nation should farm out (get it?) much of its agriculture to the developing world. A fundamental reason countries that can afford it have agricultural subsidies is that a
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by donaldc 13y ago
The organic search results are the loss-leader.
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by donaldc 13y ago
One might argue that the more technologically incompetent the censors are, the better.
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by donaldc 13y ago
One problem is that often the data is highly valued -- the team may have spent years building it. That was clearly not the case with the flawed paper this OP is concerning itself with. So, not a valid excuse in this case. At any rate, the
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by donaldc 13y ago
Women who choose to have children, and anyone, male or female, who chooses to take more than six months off for just about any reason.
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by donaldc 13y ago
It's already been tried for some foods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws
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by donaldc 14y ago
From the article: The standards will take effect from April 1, 2013, and will also require residences to offer equal connections to services from various telecom companies allowing customers to choose which service they want. Amazingly, t
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by donaldc 14y ago
In 2010, officials at the West Contra Costa School District, just east of San Francisco, were in a bind. The district needed $2.5 million to help secure a federally subsidized $25 million loan to build a badly needed elementary school. Cha
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by donaldc 14y ago
While we're at it, let's also add 3D to displays.
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by donaldc 14y ago
As the batch size grew, it was hard for every partner to know exactly what each startup was doing. Especially since things often change fast at startups. You could be running up against Dunbar's number ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunba
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by donaldc 14y ago
Money spent (rather than invested) in one's 20s offers greater opportunity for enjoyment than when in your 60s, when your choices are more limited Would you care to elaborate on this? I don't (yet) have first-hand experience with being in
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by donaldc 14y ago
You say that as if companies won't find a way to take over: Some of them will try, from time to time, but they will largely fail. Though to be on the safe side, don't share your social networking account passwords with anyone at the compa
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by donaldc 14y ago
There's a natural tendency in English to use as nouns words that were originally verbs. Examples: I'm going for a walk. I'm having a talk with someone. Dictionary definition or not, a google search for the phrase "a schlep" returns >60,

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