Larry Greenfield

huh? - Jim Norris

"In the man page for PPI, Adam Kennedy conjectures that perl is unparseable, and suggests how to prove it. Below I carry out a rigorous version of the proof, which should put the matter beyond doubt." - Larry Greenfield from Bookmarklet

"First of all, generally speaking, when one apologizes for having done a bad thing (like for instance destroying the world economy), it is good form to wait at least until the end of the sentence to start bragging again." - Larry Greenfield from Bookmarklet

Refreshing to see him nail it. And the apology shows how little Goldman gets what they did. That worries me. There's a big difference between ordinary business ("there is a fool out there willing to buy this rat meat and eat it, not my problem") and systemic issues of rat meat bringing us down. Every day they make money selling rat meat, and they don't understand why this is different. - Daniel Dulitz

Grr! - ௸ (k2g)

" Somehow, in the past two years, the regular strength Tylenol has disappeared from the market. Some stores did not have it at all. A large specialty drug store had a few bottles of 325 mg, together with row after row of 500 mg." - Larry Greenfield

"This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert's political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert's political opinions fully mediated the relationship between po" - Larry Greenfield from Bookmarklet

depressing!! - ௸ (k2g)

Also, most liberals don't realize that Bill O'Reilley is just joshing. - moo. bye.

Sure, but we're better company - j1m

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh... - ta√i

I thought you were just complaining about the bus. - ta√i

I agree. The financial services industry was itself a brain drain from other industries. I think we will probably over-correct initially, but hopefully the equilibrium will be in a place where the best and brightest don't go to Wall St by default. - Bret Taylor

If the 'best and brightest' were on Wall St., we wouldn't be in this mess. The writer's point that financial markets shouldn't be an end in themselves is a good one. Financial transactions that exist solely for speculation (as compared to allocating scarce capital) are far more likely to damage the economy and society as a whole than to enhance it. - John Craft

"It's sad. Several generations of college students learned their grammar from the uninformed bossiness of Strunk and White, and the result is a nation of educated people who know they feel vaguely anxious and insecure whenever they write "however" or "than me" or "was" or "which," but can't tell you why." - Thomas Brox Røst

Interesting. From now on I will not feel bad about starting sentences with "however". - Thomas Brox Røst