Yep, and that’s a huge problem. In 1976, Finance professor Michael Jensen and Dean William Meckling of the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester published their paper in the Journal of Financial Economics entitled “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure.” That…

Maybe people (a very select few who tend to see through business school bullshit, and I say that as a business school graduate and tax attorney) are beginning to realize that it’s actually good when a company invests in itself instead of sending out shareholder dividends and grinding production to a halt through…

Shhh.... you’re ruining the spurious, click-baity nature of this article.

And having their body parts wash up on shore when limbs are hacked off because VISA has a contact payment ring, or whatever else.

Banned or... saved from whatever horrific conditions Olympians will encounter?

Hahaha, funny you mention that. They want my aunt, who lives about 30 minutes away, with no traffic (and it’s Long Island, so there’s always traffic) to care for the kid. My aunt does not want the responsibility, at 70, to be the kid’s sole provider during the day, five days per week.

I wasn’t lying when I said “princess.” I agree, we spent $3,000 on our wedding (it was just a nice dinner with about 30 people at a fancy hotel, and a quick Justice of the Peace ceremony outside overlooking the city). The rest of it went to a down payment on our awesome house. Much better than spending god only knows…

I don’t have pictures of the dress, but it was probably close this (Swarovski crystals, not diamonds, that I know of at least):

This is exactly what my wife and I did. We bought $20 tungsten carbide wedding bands on Amazon (because they don’t really scratch) and that was that. My mom actually gave me her engagement ring, which I used when I proposed, but now it sits in a safe at home and has not been worn since our wedding day.

He was another partner’s client and I left the firm before the resolution of the case. However, I think I had heard the partner saying that the data showed he was possibly speeding (slightly) during the time frame (roughly a few minutes as the time on the ticket was when the ticket was written, not necessarily when he…

I actually left the firm before I found out the resolution of the case. Though, I think there was talk regarding the data showing he may have been speeding, though in a trivial amount, around the time of the police’s radar ticket.

Probably not until Spider Silk 2099.

To your point, and just a fun anecdote, my firm once had a client who was contesting a speeding ticket. The cop claimed to sitting at point X, thus we knew, roughly the location of the supposed speeding.

Feel free to read the list on Wikipedia. Honestly, there aren’t too many that are wrong, unless you count “wrong” as off by 10 years, which, in the grand scheme of things is pretty damn accurate.

Yeah, 86% of the time being correct really does suck. If only I could suck that bad at predicting the lottery.

Wait, what? Are you saying Kurzweil doesn’t have crazy predictions? If so, you must have me confused with someone else. I don’t think his predictions are crazy (or delusional, as someone else said) at all. I think Kurzweil is on point, as stated before, 86% of the time.

“Top bacterial killer” would seem to imply an antibiotic. “Deadliest bacteria” or “Top killer bacteria” even (though a bit sensational) would have been a much more clear title.

No... no you can’t. This is much more than “pattern recognition” which is something that every person with practice can do. It’s deductive reasoning. I have to do it in my job every single day as an attorney. My wife does it as a doctor. This isn’t something special to autistic people, unless you’re the kid from that…

I’ve read that before. I love that blog. That was really a great read, and it’s the reason why, when I’m talking to people about the possibility of the singularity (with which I am fully onboard), I typically state something like, “Kurzweil, the super optimist, predicts like 2025 for AI, whereas even the most…

Vague? Did you read through the list? Those are anything but vague.