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		<title>Making bingo great again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the cards for the Fourth Quadrennial edition of Presidential Debate Bingo. &#8220;TPP,&#8221; &#8220;deplorables,&#8221; &#8220;dog whistles,&#8221; and &#8220;jobs of the future&#8221; are all here. The rules are simple: Exact quotes only Drink heavily Try not to think too hard about the future of this country.]]></description>
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		<title>BusinessWeek Math</title>
		<link>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2012/11/business-week-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new BusinessWeek rankings of business schools are out. Thousands of future MBAs will pour over the statistically insignificant differences between similarly ranked schools to decide which will receive their quarter million dollars. Of course, we can disagree over the finer points of methodology. But first, BusinessWeek needs to show us that they are capable [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>One &#8220;loophole&#8221; to bingo.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE (16 October 2012): Cards for the Town Hall edition of Presidential Debate Bingo are now up. Let&#8217;s hope both candidates show up this time. Here are the bingo cards for the third quadrennial edition of Presidential Debate Bingo. If you&#8217;re holding card 5, note that &#8220;Jim, Wall Street can afford it&#8221; would get you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;student&#8221; athlete</title>
		<link>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2012/07/the-student-athlete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, University of North Carolina basketball standout Tyler Hansbrough shared with Sports Illustrated how he is availing himself of UNC&#8217;s academic opportunities: There&#8217;s no reason I chose Swahili other than that I thought it would be cool. I enjoy it. Now we learn that &#8220;Swahili&#8221; is UNC-speak for &#8220;a non-existent class.&#8221; Other professors linked [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bureaucrats and geometry</title>
		<link>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2012/03/bureaucrats-and-geometry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geekiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Math]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I needed a passport photo. Beyond my usual photographic concerns (the fact that photos of me all seem to bear an unfortunate resemblance to me), I was required to ensure my photo&#8217;s conformity with State Department standards. They photo must be two inches in each dimension, featuring a correctly-proportioned forward-facing non-tilted expressionless face. To provide [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Superfluous engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geekiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine and Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My wife regularly contends that while my abstract inapplicable research is pursued entirely for self-gratitude, her chosen field leads to practical, human-benefiting innovation. Economists, you see, are motivated by results that are &#8220;cool&#8221; but useless, while engineers (clearly not motivated by coolness) pursue practicality. A counter-example: The glass tank is a purported marvel of fluid [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Things about Business I Learned in Business School</title>
		<link>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2011/08/top-ten-things-about-business-i-learned-in-business-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes the sustained effort of many people to create a positive corporate culture. It takes a few people no time at all to ruin it. When someone starts a sentence with &#8220;We benchmarked our performance against &#8230;&#8221; it means they screwed up, and are now covering their asses. Trying to build consensus where none [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Unreasonable expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Math]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Financial &#8220;analysis&#8221; like this makes my head spin: Earnings &#8230; were expected to beat expectations. [The Street] The S&#38;P 500 fell last week &#8230; It’s not that most companies are failing to beat expectations, but that they may not be blowing them out. [The Globe and Mail] Front Barnett Associates in Chicago, an investment advisory firm [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Search costs, collusion, and moral banter</title>
		<link>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2010/01/search-costs-collusion-and-moral-banter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2010/01/search-costs-collusion-and-moral-banter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine and Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think of the Children! (But only on Sundays, say area liquor stores) Connecticut is considering a law lifting the ban on Sunday liquor sales. The current prohibition is a throwback to the religious blue laws. Of course, like most legislation that comes under the banner of morality, someone is sneering and profiteering. Opposed to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>All asterisks lead to contradictions</title>
		<link>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2009/09/all-asterisks-lead-to-contradictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dis-equilibrium.com/2009/09/all-asterisks-lead-to-contradictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Free!* No money Down!* Satisfaction Guaranteed!* Those ubiquitous asterisks used to point to standard disclaimers about war, riots, or force majeure, but the small print at four point font now occupies tomes. There is a fine line between disclaimers, limitations, conditions, restrictions, and outright fraud. The following examples are nowhere near that line. Accident Forgiveness&#8230; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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