djiddish98

Go Winston! So much better than trying to do this in Tableau

Teaching is more akin to client-contractor-subcontractor analogy.

Client - parents Contractor - admin Sub - teacher

Now imagine that both the client and the sub contractor are influential in the final product (student ability). How do you isolate an incident like divorce from the overall performance measurement of the teacher?

"According to calculations by the research firm IHS iSuppli, the $79 Kindle costs Amazon $84 to make. That sum does not include research and development, shipping or, with a third-party retailer, the wholesale discount. Add these up, and Amazon might be losing as much as $20 on every $79 Kindle sold at, for example, Best Buy."

The $79 Kindle is subsidized by advertisements, although I'm not what % are Amazon ads and what % are 3rd parties. Ad-free costs another $40.

OT - When I first read this article, the former COO's last name was spelled 3 different ways.

Yes, there are a handful of vowels there, so I can understand how the WSJ still left one misspelling at the end of the article after editing the original.

This was the exact sentence in the article when I stopped reading it seriously (despite earlier attempts by the author).

"Competitive pressure" = bad PR when a plane crashes. And then, the company will just lie low and latch on to another airline.

IE - ValuJet merging with AirTran

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet

The TSA should be an easy agency to write a scathing article about. This author came in with some preconceived notions about the wonders of the free market and just layered the TSA on top, with little effect.