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"Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankind’s phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary success. With a bad environment and poor parenting, orchid children can end up depressed, drug-addicted, or in jail—but with the right environment and good parenting, they can grow up to be society’s most creative, successful, and happy people." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

sounds like common sense, but it's amazing how in real life some of these common sense things can get lost in the shuffle - Chris Heath

The barbell strategy in "the black swan" is essentially this - a bunch of high risk call options (orchids) bundled with safe treasury bills (dandelions) as being robust to crashes while preserving some upside. - sridhars

<coffee comes thru nose> - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

loled so hard. - sridhars

"That is why on Tuesday, a start-up company led by Adam Bosworth, former head of the Google Health team, plans to become the newest entrant to the online consumer health business. ... The ideal, health experts say, would be to combine personal data with health information to deliver tailored health plans for individuals. That is what Mr. Bosworth and his San Francisco-based company, Keas (pronounced KEE-ahs) Inc., mean to do. Using the Keas system, for example, a person with Type 2 diabetes might receive reminders, advice on diet and exercise, questions and prompts presented on the Web site or delivered by e-mail or text messages — all personalized for the person’s age, gender, weight and other health conditions. Although success is far from certain, Keas has some big partners, including Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. " - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

tell that to mint - sridhars

I so need to see this movie - sridhars

are we going to guess from your iPhone? This is why we need to be able to edit entries to add photos... :) - Tim Hoeck

Answer: http://friendfeed.com/paul... (and http://friendfeed.com/paul...) - Paul Buchheit

yeah, i passed that the first time and had to go uninstall the flippin' toolbar. - MikeAmundsen

That's why I use Ubuntu Linux instead. "Update Java? Sure, just reinstall your entire system!" - Jim Norris

oh man, the boys are gonna flip when they see this. - Carlos Ayala

already did :) - sridhars

you guys never sleep, do you? - Pete Delucchi

Congrats on the turkey logo Paul. Hopefully the real turkey came out great too! - Susan Beebe

Had same problem recently trying to create/export to a csv that was well over 700,000 rows by some obscene amount of columns. - Robert DeBord

I think so too. I know a guy who used to work in QA there - he said they got pressure from customers on wall street to do this. - sridhars

"At least four particiants of the Boston Marathon have died of brain cancer in the past 10 years." There are over 20,000 participants every year. I'm sure that 4 is probably less than the expected number of brain cancer deaths in that sized population, which probably means that running marathons actually prevents brain cancer. - Gabe

With proper training, diet, electrolyte/nutrient replacement and water intake, running a marathon should be safe. However, I can see how improper training can take a severe toll. - Mike Reynolds

1 in 16,000 is the expected number according to http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/b... - sridhars

Yeah, maybe Palin should do a coming clean thing - Vaibhav Thukral

She should only come clean if she can appeal to centrist views (the Hillary supporters they are hoping to convert). - sridhars

I must get a digital copy of both Yes Minister + Yes Prime Minister, I still have a VHS set of both series - Duncan Riley

The books have even more humor in the form of editor's notes. - sridhars

success - mjc

sms? - sridhars

from fakesteve - sridhars

psql depot_development < db/create.sql - sridhars