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25 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ReviewAndAnalysisChris [CH]
When my finance students ask me to describe the right way to answer a question, I always remember an apocryphal story about a physics student at the University of Copenhagen who once faced the following challenge: Describe how to determine the height...
10 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
That topic brought to memory Pushkin's story "Барышня-Крестьянка" that I can perhaps translate as Lady-Pesant. It is a story takes us back to the beginning of the 19th century. At that time 90% of the Russian population were serfs, which is, omitting...
6 Feb 2020 2 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
The multistory building where I currently reside has many security gates: to the building, to the living quarters, etc. Every time people go through those gates they have to put their fingers into a finger recognition panel. Usually, this works like...
5 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
She was looking, first to the right, then to the left - just like her forefathers had taught her. For Tsypa the lessons of forefathers weren’t a rhetorical statement. In fact, she personally knew her ancestors. Well, at least, some of them. Those who...
30 Jan 2020 1 minute read 3 comments mgaft1
Hi everybody, Yesterday I made a beet soup called borscht. Now I and my son can eat it for a couple of days. Here's how I made it: First, you boil beef, preferably with the bone. Once you have the broth, you take the meat out and let it cool down....
13 Jan 2020 6 minute read 0 comments ZackNorman97
A few days ago, an interesting, and expensive case of buyer's remorse has spilled over into a lawsuit, emerging from the purchase of rather unique, and collectable automobile. While I ponder upon the intricacies of this particular case myself, which...
2 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
I woke up with a headache at around 4.30 AM from a nightmare. I was hiding from Nazis in some old house full of junk. Yet, I woke up when people with dogs were just about to discover me. Went to the computer and watched a video titled “How to start b...
1 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
In the movies, programmers often presented as some sort of geniuses; kids are breaking into Pentagon databases and so on. In reality, programmers are regular people who just happen to code as their day job. In fact, I remember one colleague of mine f...
19 Dec 2019 1 minute read 3 comments trumpman
Finally, after about 2 and a half really busy months I am enjoying my favorite cold beer stress-free. For the last 10 weeks I have been: Working daily on my daily job Attending 2 separate daily, 4 hour long seminars (5:30 to 9 pm). The first semina...
27 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
There are various ways to determine the size of a man's hm... not sure how to say it in English so it would sound decent. Some people determine it by the size of the feet (the greater the feet size the greater...) others, analogically reasoning, dete...
