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That way, you don't need 292m to take the prize, and any average Joe can decide to invest, say $100, and still come out positive.

Of course, it can very well become an organizational nightmare :-)

Edit: typo.

I dance and teach (Cuban) salsa, and I've been wanting to write down a "repertoire" of moves that I know and teach, to give it some structure. Here the system I'm inclined to use:

The space of patterns/figures you can do in salsa is really not very big. You can break each figure into a sequence of positions at which to be on beats 1, 3, 5, and 7 (I guess you can choose higher or lower granularity, but I think this level of granularity is just right for most people). Then, in my mind, a figure is merely a directed path through a graph where each node is a "known" position (~20?). Assuming you know how to get from one arbitrary position to another one (safe assumption for anyone in an intermediate level), then you can just read and write any figure you want.

I think this kind of structure would allow students to learn much much faster (and is basically the method I used to improve my own skill very quickly, except I used a spreadsheet instead of graph). You'll realize that most of the new stuff you learn is simply:

- composite paths made out of other paths you already knew.

- existing paths where you take detours and do something else in the middle. Those detours always start at a node, so now you can use the detour in any other path that goes through that node.

- new ways of getting from one node to another. Similarly, now you can apply this new knowledge to any move that utilizes that node, not just the move that you're learning at the time.

Where I also think this shines is in developing the dancer's (esp. leader's) creativity, which I think is one of the hardest part for most people (technical stuff is easy, creative stuff is hard!). Having such paths laid out makes it really easy for someone to mix and match, and to create potentially endless combinations by simply choosing a different path forward once you get into a known shared position.

And for fun, I'm sure you could just draw out a random path and see if you can make it work into something that looks reasonably good :)

:-)

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...Why? I don't see how that conclusion follows from the data. The data only compared occupied vs unoccupied rent-controlled home sale prices. Nothing took into account how under-market said rents were. Unless I missed something...

Sure. I think the implicit assumption is that "men in tech" is a more representative sample of "men" than "women in tech" is for "women".

I don't see how this makes sense. Why does it require over 5x of what you would expect by multiplying cost per year times number of years??

Thanks!

It's a genuine question--I basically NEVER stay in hotels beyond the required sleep time, so I'm curious as to how other people do things.

I don't know. I want to answer "no" to the title's question, but it seems more nuanced than that. I think the distinction of a targeted comment vs a "general" one is an important one to make.

I'm curious on what the law is for similar actions outside of social media..

So one cannot feel frustrated if an employee leaves, or you're running a slave shop?

(I'm aware I'm exaggerating your comment. My point is OP can feel frustrated/angry if an employee leaves. It doesn't mean he's exploiting his employees).

Just letting you know that I agree with this comment's point (though not its tone).

Could this be made available without all the social and sharing stuff? :) Maybe after you build your user base you can open source it? (free for people like us but not jeopardizing your competitive advantage since you already have the network)

Frame blurriness, faces and smiles, balance.. what else?

Random question: is this how Dwolla does its transactions--through ACH?

I would find it useful to know how I'm doing within the pool. Even if the answer is "bottom 20%", that lets me know how much more effort I have to put into it to improve.