Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
According to this blog post Google gives their employees $1 a day to advertise on Google. The intent is to give employees the perspective of an Adwords user in order to improve the product. In addition to giving employees exposure to Adwords, this also has potential to increase the competition ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
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People often blame bad luck for their failures. This absolves them of responsibility and allows them to stop trying. What they should have done is admitted their failure, learned from the experience, and prepared themselves for the next opportunity. Exposing yourself to opportunities is the best way to ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Answer: Be elected for a first term, the second term will follow.
It turns out it's pretty likely that a president will be elected to a second term. If we examine all previous Presidential Elections, we will see 8 presidents who failed to get reelected:
President
Result
Benjamin Harrison
Failed to get reelected in 1892
George ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
I found an op-ed in the NY Times that claimed that the best way to increase voter turnout was by having election day fall on a weekend. They provide a few examples but nothing too detailed. I tried pulling in some data and seeing if I could come to the ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
I stumbled unto an article written in 1968 that tries to predict what the world of 2008 will be like. Usually, these types of predictions are completely off and tend to predict a future far more advanced than what it actually becomes.
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As expected, the ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
I've recently been thinking about whether the US can move to a EU like model with each state having control over it's own policies but sharing a single market and monetary union. In addition, competition is well regulated and a shared budget exists. In addition, it looks as if this ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
It seems that there is a recent emphasis on "character" in the election. Unfortunately, character can be faked with some acting and campaign management. To understand how the candidates will perform in office we need to look at their past accomplishments and failures. Public records show the vote history for ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
It may be my memory but it seems that TV commericals have been getting longer and longer as compared to a decade ago. It would be very interesting to see a plot of the length of the average commercial break over the past few decades - I think we'll see ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
With so many people joining social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, it's becoming harder and harder to protect your personal information. If one of your friends happens to add a host of different facebook apps, those apps will have access to his friends' (your) information. There is nothing you ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
A common idiom is "Don't judge a book by its cover" but I think that in this modern age this needs to rehashed into "Don't judge words by their author."
How often do we look at the author before we read an article or blog post? And how does this impact ...
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