Forum: Travel
09-21-2007, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 152
Re: Started working from NYC office: where to eat?
Food: Check out Sapporo for good quick and inexpensive Japanese. It's right by you on 49th between 6th and 7th. John's pizzeria on 44th in between 6th and 7th is probably the best pizza in midtown....
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-24-2007, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 144
Views: 800
Re: First good idea
The economist is free online. I hope wsj jumps on the ad revenue over subscription model as well...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-09-2007, 06:28 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 317
Re: Too Much Information
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If you knew for sure that information was "very marginally beneficial," why would you still choose to ignore it?
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We're nitpicking here, but you might in cases where time is...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-09-2007, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 317
Re: Too Much Information
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In conclusion, more is better unless you can't handle it.
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I don't think that is a perfect conclusion. It is hard to determine if we are actually able to "handle" new...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-08-2007, 02:34 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 317
Re: Too Much Information
To add the obligatory Buffett quote..
"It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong."
Also, Gladwell's Blink seems to be very relevant to this discussion. He talks about how thin...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-07-2007, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 57
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-06-2007, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 57
Good time to buy BSC?
I read this (http://financial.seekingalpha.com/article/40303) about a month back. BSC has dropped another 40 points since then and the price to book value is looking pretty low. I am very new to...
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Forum: Books and Publications
08-02-2007, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 111
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Forum: Books and Publications
08-02-2007, 04:08 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 111
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-01-2007, 11:42 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 98
Re: First Book To Read
Investing for Dummies and the complete idiot's guide to investing might be good options as they are both broad and introductory. The "Dummies" books are actually very good from what I've seen. ...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-01-2007, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 71
Re: Best business newspaper
Just started reading this kind of stuff recently, but I think that IBD and WSJ >>> NY Times for business and investing. If you don't want to spend the $285 on IBD you can't go too wrong with the...
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Forum: Other Other Topics
07-25-2007, 09:47 AM
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Replies: 137
Views: 599
Re: using the word \"gay\"
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Lame means crippled or disabled. How is lame politically correct to describe some random crap while gay isn't?
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Because that's only one of the definitions. ...
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Forum: Other Other Topics
07-24-2007, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 137
Views: 599
Re: using the word \"gay\"
Lame means crippled or disabled. How is lame politically correct to describe some random crap while gay isn't? Why hasn't the word gay been hijacked to mean stupid/lame while homosexuals start...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-24-2007, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 93
Re: Who likes their discount broker?
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niffe what kind of commissions does each charge for basic limit and market order trades?
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firstrade $7
tradeking $5
scottrade $7
zecco $0
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-23-2007, 04:52 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 93
Who likes their discount broker?
I am looking to open up a discount broker account. I am doing this just as a hobby; I will probably just put in a few thousand and make no more than a few stock trades a month, not worried about...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
07-23-2007, 11:34 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 244
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
07-18-2007, 10:46 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 74
Re: How should we deal with the unanswerable?
For the record, I am deeply non-religious and am asking these questions mainly to get a viewpoint from theists. It's great that Gould sells out to theists and it's stupid to "edify an entire system...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
07-17-2007, 04:54 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 74
How should we deal with the unanswerable?
Take the possibly unanswerable question of the origin of the universe. An atheist might say, “I don’t know how the universe began, maybe we’ll find out someday. Maybe it has even been here forever....
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-12-2007, 11:02 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 192
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-12-2007, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 192
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-12-2007, 10:14 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 192
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-11-2007, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 192
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-11-2007, 11:56 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 192
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
06-29-2007, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 162
Re: Witchcraft as a metaphor for religion
We both agree that we can use whatever belief system we have to justify our actions, good or bad (with respect to the sense of pragmatic, common sense morals discussed earlier). Again I would like...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
06-29-2007, 03:52 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 162
Re: Witchcraft as a metaphor for religion
There can be a case made that materialism is better positioned for better morals than theists. This comes in the form of positing more of a free market for morality. I come from the school that...
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