grasshoper

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Comment · 15 years ago

I was going to donate to aid organizations to help supply food and water, but I guess I should send some nuclear engineering textbooks and maybe my old exams from Nuclear Engineering 101. That's obviously the best and only way for the average American to help, what with our expertise on these matters.

I've also included this link[1] to the wikipedia article discussing the current situation involving the threatened nuclear reactors; hopefully, this will elucidate matters for Japanese officials. Maybe someone can help with the translations.

We should also send them the most insightful reader comments from CNN.com, reddit, and YouTube.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Japanese_nuclear_incidents

Comment · 16 years ago

Gates was already the world's richest man when he married Melinda; he also met her through Microsoft.

Bezos was already well beyond f-u money when he left D.E. Shaw to found Amazon.

Jobs did not have a stable personal life during Apple's early days; he did not meet his wife until several years after he was removed from Apple.

Comment · 16 years ago

You're comparing their 2010 year-end valuation with their 2009 year-end net income...

In December 2009, Facebook repurchased shares at $25 for an implied valuation of $11 billion. That's a 55 P/E.

Comment · 16 years ago

I cannot rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

Comment · 16 years ago

It's definitely Reddit most of the time. It's a larger site.

Comment · 16 years ago

American Chinese vs Chinese Chinese is the only fair way to do this; otherwise, it's apples and oranges (and oranges are better).

Comment · 16 years ago

He had to do Math 55 to realize that there were people smarter than he was. Not too many people can readily appreciate what this means. I think you have to have participated in national-level math competitions to be able to understand the quality of person it takes to do this.

It reminds of the line from Good Will Hunting where the Professor says that only a handful of people in the world were smart enough to even tell the difference, even though it was grand, between himself and Will.

If your definition of a 'really-smart person' is someone who can ace the SATs or get into Harvard, then you probably won't be able to tell the difference between such a person and Bill Gates. There is a world of difference between the level of intelligence required to ace the SATs and level required to handle Math 55.

Comment · 16 years ago

your comments are so nonsensical that I doubt you'll ever have the "problem" of paying taxes that you fear

Like Joe the Plumber, in this guy's imagination he has to deal with the burdens of a progressive tax system. Reality is a different story.