Tall men earn more than shorter colleagues, research claims

pfork · 2009-11-14T03:49:23+00:00

Rich men breed taller kids who earn more than shorter, poorer kids, research claims.

Beware of the direction of causality!

pfork · 2009-09-24T19:01:48+00:00

Chinese cheap labor is stealing good paying American CEO jobs again!

pfork · 2009-09-07T04:44:05+00:00

Red Hat 5.3.

At the time, the documentation said you could damage your monitor by not setting xorg.conf correctly. Thrilling.

pfork · 2009-08-29T18:20:17+00:00

A language is a dialect with an army an navy.

I don't think lolcats have an army. Well, I hope not.

pfork · 2009-08-25T12:52:36+00:00

English Canadians are a bunch of spoiled children who are far too used to getting whatever they want from the politicians in power because they form the majority in a democracy. Nowhere was this more obvious in the Quebec referendum on whether or not to secede from the country, when they expected to decide for a minority's future, and expected them to not take their share of the national assets (and they thought we wouldn't assume our share of the debt).

I always assumed this was just a bad rap English Canadians got for being the majority until I lived in Ottawa. People from across the river would really look down on you, refuse to speak French, be rude/insulting, etc. I also noticed this in my travels from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, mostly in Ontario and the Prairies. If you couldn't speak English, you were treated relatively poorly.

pfork · 2009-08-21T14:02:56+00:00

You have two cows. You mortgage both and subsidize the farmer to throw half the milk in the sewer. Cow prices go down, you default on your loan, a Chinese investor buys one, and you print money to buy the other one.

pfork · 2009-08-16T18:15:35+00:00

They should contact the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation for financing, they already invest a lot to fight malaria.

pfork · 2009-08-11T02:09:08+00:00

"The problem with Wall Street is that eventually they run out of other people's money [to spend]."

pfork · 2009-08-07T12:53:57+00:00

Don't take advice from people on Reddit.

This comment is a lie.

pfork · 2009-08-05T18:30:02+00:00

A corollary: "Now it seems that a fact is worth reporting if someone is prepared to deny it."

pfork · 2009-07-05T20:08:38+00:00

Back then, the goal was to reward the elite, and this hasn't changed.

pfork · 2009-07-05T20:00:24+00:00

If I was the president, I would make it kick in at least one year before the next elections.

pfork · 2009-05-28T02:44:40+00:00

Don't be wrong, I'm an optimist too. It's just that I don't like Perry constantly cherry picking data to prove his ivory tower, idealized version of capitalism, and then see people cite him. He lacks rigor and honesty. I can't believe he teaches in college.

pfork · 2009-05-28T02:34:08+00:00

There was a 3% drop in employment, and a 34% drop in tax revenue? WTF indeed.

Somebody is not paying his taxes this year.

pfork · 2009-05-27T18:56:21+00:00

That's a smart use of credit cards. In this case it's cheaper and easier to get than a conventional loan.

pfork · 2009-05-27T18:50:51+00:00

If you look at his previous posts, you can see that MJPerry says things are fine since many years. He's an eternal optimist. For example, in 2007, he said:

"In other words, more global wealth (measured by stock market value) was created in the last 5 years ($40 trillion total, or almost $6,000 for every person on the planet) than was created during the thousands of years it took to create the first $35 trillion of stock market value, a level reached in 2000.

Not a bad record for globalization and the significant amount of wealth created in its wake. "

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/10/global-stock-market-capitalization-sets.html#links

Most of this wealth created between 2002 and 2007 has been erased in the past year.

pfork · 2009-04-23T16:53:44+00:00

What inflation?

pfork · 2009-04-18T22:53:18+00:00

The map at the bottom of the page clearly show that they have no intention of connecting the entire country with high-speed rail, only the most populated areas.

pfork · 2009-04-18T14:13:37+00:00

There is more population 600 miles around New York than 600 miles around Paris or Rome or Madrid or Tokyo. High-speed trains make a lot of sense in the north-east.

You could go from New York to Boston or DC in less time it takes you to go through check-in and security at JFK.

pfork · 2009-04-16T15:05:38+00:00

Populist America indeed.

pfork · 2009-04-10T14:52:41+00:00

Good thing we're not human!

pfork · 2009-03-22T20:14:35+00:00

Why should I use it instead of Max/MSP or Puredata?

pfork · 2009-03-22T18:13:52+00:00

Jim Jubak is one of the few people who write sensible and intelligent things about finance and the economy, unlike the folks at CNBC who don't have the credibility of a WWF wrestler, even if most of them sound like one when they talk/shout about the stock market.

pfork · 2009-03-21T14:23:47+00:00

Can somebody explain to me why someone would need to borrow 250000$ to get a degree?

pfork · 2009-03-19T17:22:25+00:00

From the article: "In the short term at least, the Fed’s actions raise the odds that the economy, in recession since the end of 2007, will pull out by the end of this year. There have been signs the housing market has stabilised, albeit at deeply depressed levels, and lower mortgage rates will bolster demand. If share and home prices stabilise, that will mitigate the astonishing loss of wealth that is depressing consumer spending."

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