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"Fed Considers Sweeping Rules on Bank Pay"

Craig Newmark | Mon, 09/21/2009 - 5:37am |  1 comment

I think it's a bad idea. But I would consider supporting the change if the proposed rules were also applied to the Fed's managers, the executive branch, and Congress. Especially this one : "And they will support 'clawbacks' that would enable companies to reclaim mon ... Read more

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"The Autodidact Course Catalog"

Craig Newmark | Fri, 11/20/2009 - 6:23am |  Add a comment

Johns Hopkins faculty outline mini-courses on various topics . Includes "How These Things Work: Business Management Writ Large". I'd skip Berle and Means, but the Mokyr, Hayek, and Chandler volumes are good for autodidacts or anybody else. Link via Metafilter . ... Read th ... Read more

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The new hotness in exercise . . .

Craig Newmark | Fri, 11/20/2009 - 6:21am |  Add a comment

. . . is "interval" or high-intensity training . It might even help reduce heart disease and Type II diabetes . ... Read the full post ... Read more

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"The world's oldest cities"

Craig Newmark | Fri, 11/20/2009 - 6:14am |  Add a comment

From the U.K. Telegraph : "Featuring quotes and interesting facts, we list the world's 20 oldest continually-inhabited cities ." ... Read the full post ... Read more

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"The 25 Funniest Sportscenter Commercials"

Craig Newmark | Fri, 11/20/2009 - 6:12am |  Add a comment

Most of these were great . ... Read the full post ... Read more

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"America's Safest [Big] Cities"

Craig Newmark | Thu, 11/19/2009 - 6:32am |  Add a comment

Forbes analysis using four factors: violent crime, workplace fatality rate, traffic death rate, and natural disaster risk. Minneapolis-St. Paul wins and Miami-Fort Lauderdale loses. Surprising to me was the city that ranked worst on the workplace fatality rate: Indianapolis. ... Read th ... Read more

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"What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts?"

Craig Newmark | Thu, 11/19/2009 - 6:27am |  Add a comment

The crackdown on BitTorrent has just moved unauthorized copying to a venue much harder to police . ... Read the full post ... Read more

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"Clueless: Where Are They Now?"

Craig Newmark | Thu, 11/19/2009 - 6:26am |  Add a comment

Most of the stars, except maybe Christian, have done all right . ... Read the full post ... Read more

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"Petabytes on a budget"

Craig Newmark | Wed, 11/18/2009 - 6:45am |  Add a comment

Interesting account of how a firm called Backblaze constructs huge amounts of cloud storage inexpensively . They need to because they offer unlimited, automatic backup over the Internet for just $5/month (per computer and "except your operating system, applications, temporary files, or th ... Read more

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