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link dump
You're not as busy as you think you are. Or, even if you are -- you will feel a lot less busy if you just stop talking about it all the timeI've often been a bit skeptical about how helpful the minimum wage is. I looked into the empirical research a while ago, and it was pretty inconclusive either way. But one thing I hadn't considered: the higher ( Read more... ) -
science!
Or maybe I should say, bureaucracy!
The white house just announced some nominations, including this one:
Dr. Franklin Orr, Nominee for Under Secretary for Science, Department of EnergyDr. Franklin Orr is the Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, a position he has held since 2009. Dr. Orr has been an associate ( Read more... ) -
a confident campaign
There's a lot of lj interest in predicting the election results -- that's all I see on my friends list right now -- so this is probably of interest to lots of you.
The Obama campaign is very confident of a win.
I mean, duh, of course they would say that to a reporter. Crazy not to. But there's a ton of interesting detail in the content.Chicago is ( Read more... ) -
assigned!
I start at Google on monday, and just found out what I'll be working on:
SAFT (semantic analysis from text) in Google Research. This is a deep internal product with internal clients, not consumer-facing. It's a good fit for my skills/interests, so it should be fun. -
political platform
It's that time of year. Here's a political platform that guarantees that nobody would ever vote for you... but would make a much bigger difference than either party's, by a mile.
Help the poor
- End the war on drugs. Legalize almost everything, including most if not all prescription drugs. Perhaps you have to get the scarier stuff from a pharmacy ( Read more... )
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life update, in (very) brief
Oct 1, I will be starting work at Google as a product manager ( Read more... ) -
day 2 table draw
Let me know if you know anything about these guys:
Donny Carlton has a pretty thin record in seat 1, and a short stack at 18,750.
Kevin Calenzo, 39,150 in seat 2 won a circuit event earlier this year. Looks like good tournament pro.
Timothy Odell, 40,550, seat 3. I can't find a thing on him.
David Orr with 21,725, seat 4 has won a few things, ( Read more... ) -
main event day 1 hands
I finished the day with about 20k in chips, obviously not great -- starting was 30k, average is now 44k. But my low point was 11k, so I doubled up ( Read more... ) -
Wsop main event
I play tomorrow. Good luck me! -
WSOP bound
I'm off to candyland today, planning to play two events: an nlhe shootout, and a random nlhe donkfest.
Updates on twitter, @luckydmorr.