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The US is not going to default on its debt. The Treasury will just ignore the debt ceiling and Obama can always claim it would be unconstitutional not to pay the bills. 14th amendment:

With all this fear about inflation, there's shockingly little of it to be found in any actual data. Just because transactions will take place in NewCurrency (as others have said, a fictitious currency based on a basket of other currencies -- not all currencies, but probably USD, GBP, RMB, EUR...

I put in my preorder for Killzone, since I presume it will have a larger (non-coop) online component that will be fun to play while the game is new. I plan on picking up WD after the first price drop or when I get tired of KZ, whichever comes first.

I have finished two of their courses and dropped in on a couple others. Some of them are better/more rigorous than others. I still prefer edX, however. As for your signature track question: I can't imagine it carrying much weight with employers. However, it might increase the likelihood that...

Yes. There's no reason the probabilities have to add up to 100%.

Still can't get them on my GV number. Extremely frustrating...

Boo... will have some time that should make a trip to the Monteray aquarium feasible. But mostly there for work. Any good Mexican restaurants, then?

Not to hijack this thread, but any tips for San Jose and Santa Cruz? Going to be in Santa Cruz in October and will drive in from San Jose.

Keep in mind that everyone you give a check to (e.g. landlord) has the information that someone could have gotten. So assuming you use checks at all, that information is going to be out there anyway. With the checks cancelled, they can't get any money out of your account, and no bank is just...

I found that priceline gives me the best rate for car rentals. At times, it beats our corporate discount (which you should check if you have -- even if it's not for a business trip)even for the company we have the discount with. Priceline then lets me add the corporate discount at the time of...

In the original experiment by Tversky and Kahneman, 90% of respondents picked answer 2. If you make a quick decision on it, then the "feminist" part seems more representative of Linda, which is why people go with it. There are variations that report fewer people picking #2, but it's still a...

That looks pretty cool... would join up, but no alpha access for me.

There's a set of three questions along those lines called the Cognitive Reflection Test. Someone's score on this test, it turns out, is a good predictor of anything from educational achievement to adequacy of retirement savings to general health. I actually wouldn't be opposed to using that as...

By the way: statisticians do not generally have better intuitions about this kind of stuff. They obviously have the tools to solve this (as does everyone who has taken probability in high school -- it doesn't require any advanced techniques), but it's one of the areas where people just cannot...

Come on, people... If you stick with your box, you have a 1 in 3 chance of winning. You win if and only if you picked the $100k box at the beginning. If you switch, you lose if and only if you picked the $100k box at the beginning. Since this has a 1 in 3 chance of being true, the...

I'm a huge fan of the Nexus 10 and would highly recommend it.

What do you think could happen to 401ks? That money is in your account and you've already received the tax break for it.

I've never heard of TRIM and have an SSD on Windows 7. Just checked and apparently Windows 7 enabled it by default.

I would suspect that's certainly part of it. But financial services and consulting firms are also especially adept with financial products (one would hope) and so are bound to do better than other places. Consider, for example, how few businesses offer Roth 401(k)s. I wonder if many people in...

From what I hear, most company 401(k) plans are like this... some screw you so badly that you're better off forgoing the company match and investing it in an individual portfolio. That's how fucked up the fees are -- they lost money after-fees even since the crash, which I had no idea was...

More likely because he got a sales commission for moving you there. Actively managed funds with sales charges tend to screw you pretty badly. If you can freely pick your investments in the Ameriprise account, move it all into Vanguard index funds.

Yeah, so am I. Looks like the zone after that is full or something...

You know, I can't help but think that these stress tests hurt the game. First impressions matter, and if the first time you get to play a game is as part of a stress test, the first impression is going to suck no matter how good the game is.

Yeah, except for photoshop...Or throwaway email addresses.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it as well. Shame it didn't catch on...

Awesome!

There's a setting to have items shipped as they become available, with a note that this will increase shipping costs. If I had to guess, you either accidentally selected that, or they had it selected as their default option at the very beginning. The option is still there, but the default is...

I find this really weird... I thought many European countries (particularly the ones with high purchasing power) had significantly faster broadband speeds than what's available in the US?

I got an update like this with an estimate for end of August. Then I got another email saying they've shipped it off and it'll get here tomorrow. I think there's a good chance you'll get it before then. Especially if people cancel as a result of seeing that delivery estimate...

Same for me. I had already accepted that I couldn't get it, as I ordered it around midnight (still on release day, though). That made me way more happy than getting $27 should. Amazon is pretty awesome... I wonder if they or Google paid Netflix to make this happen. Has to be a significant...

The problem you might run into is legislative changes. Bans on smoking, for example, seem to be enacted around the world and once in place aren't abolished. When governments need more tax revenue, taxing cigarettes, booze and other "sins" might be appealing -- and easier to implement than taxing...

Pretty much this. There were similar scenes in the West Wing -- for example when Josh and Tobi missed the motorcade and got stuck in middle America. Then, there was the whole thing with changing time zones in the same episode... It's funny because it's not that far from the truth. People who...

I wonder if they are being set up by Reese... they've made it pretty clear that the News division doesn't account for much of the network's profits. Plus, Reese got screwed over when he was uninvited from the congressional meeting. He seems like just the type of character who would care about...

Hallie looks like she's a friend of mine's twin... maybe that's why I like the campaign trail story.

The season finale is 8/4. So 2 more episodes!

Calc I is the most failed college course -- from what I recall, more than 50% of students fail it. It's not that surprising as it is usually the first college-level math class and most students don't have the proper preparation in high school. So they don't understand basic algebra and thus...

Is this like people complaining about how much RAM Win 7 uses?

And now it appears to be sold from third party sellers only... boo.I guess I have my Boxee box, so it's not a huge deal. But holy shit did that sell out quickly. I wonder if I should just order it from Google with the super-slow 5-10 day shipping.

Check your credit card policy to see what kind of insurance they offer for rental cars. Mine provides the same coverage as I could buy from the rental company, for example. But I don't know whether this is a NA thing... car rental in parts of Europe where I've thought about it are absolutely...

Never mind, I found the answer on Google+! Looks like it tags newly uploaded pictures as private by default, so this should work just fine.