Category Archives: Malthus

FT.com / Companies / US & Canada – US pay law branded ‘logistical nightmare’

The rules’ complexity means multinationals face a ‘logistical nightmare’ in calculating the ratio, which has to be based on the median annual total compensation for all employees, warned Richard Susko, partner at law firm Cleary Gottlieb. ‘It’s just not do-able … Continue reading

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Oxford English Dictionary ‘will not be printed again’ – Telegraph

Until six months ago I was clinging to the idea that printed books would likely last for ever. Since the arrival of the iPad I am now wholly convinced otherwise.

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Early sighting of Starbuck logo, 1550

…from a book on typography by Palatino

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Ghost of Mall Present

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Linotype Font Compilations – Neue Frutiger Value Pack

Five fonts: $19 No, these are not garage foundry fonts by a kid just graduated from lemonade stands. It’s genuine Linotype. Get ‘em before end September, when they go back to mucho dinero.

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New Statesman – Beware those Black Swans

Don’t let someone making an ‘incentive’ bonus manage a nuclear plant – or your financial risks: Odds are he would cut every corner on safety to show ‘profits’ from these savings while claiming to be ‘conservative’. Bonuses don’t accommodate the … Continue reading

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Predicting the Next Enron – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com

The number 4 appears significantly less often than expected in the post-decimal digits of earnings reports

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Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall will underperform – the numbers don’t add up’ | Technology | The Guardian

Here’s what worries me about the paywall. When we talk about newspapers, we talk about them being critical for informing the public; we never say they’re critical for informing their customers.

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The Four Horsemen of the Acropolis: An Old Battlefront Returns in War on Euro – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

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Petitio Principii, Circulus in Probando

Given that progress is inexorable, cumulative and collective if human beings exchange and specialize…

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