Monthly Archives: February 2013

QuickReaction, Thursday-3

Posted on February 28, 2013 by dmill96

Groupon, how much longer can they keep the scam going? I always thought Groupon was a scam Ponzi scheme, but what do I know. Clearly underwriters and early investors (who bailed) and stock analysis know better so all of you … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Wednesday-4

Posted on February 27, 2013 by dmill96

What’s the point at Yahoo? Cancelling the telecommuting option at Yahoo makes little sense given the standard POV toward telecommuting. As a former telecommuter (1500 miles from office, 8000 miles from team) and working with a large number of other … Continue reading →

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Applied Nate Silver – Disaster! Not Believable – 1

Posted on February 27, 2013 by dmill96

Subsequent data has proven that last Sunday’s weight was an outlier, but now the question is what should I do about all my analysis? So first let’s look at the proof it was such an outlier. I’ve now got three … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Monday-3

Posted on February 26, 2013 by dmill96

Firefox (finally) fights back against ads: Needless to say ads are getting really insidious on the Net. Way back in the dark ages when people were debating about how to finance the Net naturally ads became the dominant idea and … Continue reading →

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Weird and scary WordPress.com feature

Posted on February 24, 2013 by dmill96

Is this really what happens? I created a post with a URL to a post in another website entirely. Then I was checking my stats and noticed that URL was a referer [sic] to my post. I checked that website … Continue reading →

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ENCODE revisited

Posted on February 24, 2013 by dmill96

I ended up with a much longer comment (to my own post) dealing with a newer view about ENCODE than I’d expected and really the comment is more like a post, so here’s a way to find it. One of … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction – reaction

Posted on February 24, 2013 by dmill96

I actually like doing this kind of post but it appears they get less views and definitely less likes than other types so one might conclude this is a bad blogging technique. Now given each is many different subjects and … Continue reading →

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Applied Nate Silver – Disaster! Not Believable

Posted on February 24, 2013 by dmill96

Week 19 is the worst ever! I literally could not believe what the scale said, something had to be wrong, I was still asleep. It simply was not possible! I still can’t believe it as it sinks in, but more, … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Saturday-3

Posted on February 24, 2013 by dmill96

Is this church finally crumbling? I haven’t paid much attention to all this pope stuff since it’s just the rituals of an obsolete institution. Of late though there is a buzz about the disconnect between the continuing huge hoard of … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Friday-3

Posted on February 23, 2013 by dmill96

Yet another misrepresented nutrition association: Since I’m really struggling to try to find the truth I am just amazed at how poor (and often just plain wrong) popular press accounts are about nutrition. The most common thing is the mistake … Continue reading →

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