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Re:What would a “good” WebMD look like? on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:35PM (#32652306)
How useful would that information be? Seems like a good way to "punish" surgeons that take more difficult cases.
I suspect you're overthinking it. I'm pretty sure he just took the "le" from Google (Reddit + Google = Redditle).
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:21PM (#29597086)
A quick glance at: https://www.reddit.com/r/AteTheOnion may be enlightening/horrifying.
One major issue is that the "standard" favicon size has historically been 16x16 pixels... which, in the age of high density displays will render either comically small or comically blurry. There are other meta tags like Apple's "apple-touch-icon" which has some higher resolution options. But already you can see the logic here isn't trivial.
Re:How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:28AM (#18182473)
This is literally the first tip he describes in the article.
Re:Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:06AM (#16094778)
Do you have a source for that? Whether he popularized them or not, that's not where the expression comes from.
Following up, I plugged in the data from here into Excel: http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-yea...

Some observations:

  -there are 122 24-year windows in the dataset
  -not a single 24-year period had a negative return
  -the lowest average return for a 24-year window was 0.15% in the window from 1874-1897
  -there have been only two 24-year windows since 1876 with average annualized returns less than 2%
  -every window since 1912 has been at least 3%
  -every window since 1968 has been at least 7.1% (the author's assumption)
  -every window since 1971 has been at least 8%
Note that this doesn't take inflation into account, but also does not factor in the returns from reinvested dividends. Those effects would probably approximately cancel each other out, but hard to say.
It's not though. There are ~75 24-year windows you can use between 1913 and today. I suspect you will find similar results with almost all of those windows. Obviously past performance is not an indicator of the future, but 75 data points is a pretty decent amount of data.
Re:Affordable Care on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:22PM (#13395987)
I know right? I can't believe poor people don't just ask for more money. Then they wouldn't have to be poor! It's so simple!
Re:Google Calendar for iPhone on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @05:47PM (#9180895)
You can totally scroll the month view in OS X Calendar in Yosemite and center it on whatever week you want (might require a trackpad / magic mouse).
Re:100 Prisoners and a Lamp on Sunday November 24, 2013 @09:31PM (#6792201)
"they won’t be able to communicate again until the game is over."

Clearly, this would be a form of communication between the prisoners.

Re:Why 30.1% of numbers start with 1 on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @03:51AM (#1077381)
Click the "Next Section" link at the bottom to get way more explanation/derivation than you could ever want.
Aptana
Re:AJAX PHPMyAdmin Alternative on Saturday October 24, 2009 @02:24AM (#900192)
Very cool alternative to PHPMyAdmin. They'd have to add support for foreign keys for me to make the switch though. Also, I'm not sure it actually uses any AJAX at all (at least not that I've noticed). Lots of pretty JavaScript though. shrugs