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by NoPiece 14y ago
New York Times experimenting with link-bait headlines back in 1996.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
One advantage to a high deductible policy (besides being covered in case of something big and bad happening) is that your normal care will be billed at the rate the insurance company negotiates for all its clients, even if you are paying ou
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Isn't that very close to the HMO model?
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You give a good example but it is worth clarifying that more than it being a non-functioning free market, it is absolutely not even close to being a free market. The Federal government is the biggest spender in the market, and with that com
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I think you are misreading what he wrote. With a single owner LLC, the owner is protected from LLC liability, but the LLC is not protected from owner liability. Search for "LLC charging order protection" for more info.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I'd like to see how Santa Monica compares. 90k pop., and more dense than Berkeley. No public rail (yet), a big commitment to parking lots, and tons of cars and commuters. But I think stands up to Berkeley as far as urban fabric. But maybe m
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Because of their unique positions of power, NYC and DC are useful to connect. Minneapolis and Detroit are already connected by rail, train, bus, and car. If you want to spend a hundred billion dollars, the you need to justify it by showing
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by NoPiece 14y ago
It is conspicuous that the article says the Google Earth data is wrong, but never mentions Google Maps, which is much more likely to have been used.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
NYC is the largest city in the US and the economic capital. DC is the political capital. Both are huge tourist destinations. There are myriad reasons people travel between them. Minneapolis to Detroit, much less so. The 16 non stop flights
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by NoPiece 14y ago
As a skeptic, I look at the northeast, and say that may be the one place in the country it makes sense to have high speed rail because of the population density, and close proximity of the major cities.
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Electric cars head toward another dead end(reuters.com)
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I've been working on an iOS app using Gideros (also uses Lua). Windows support is on their roadmap, and I hope they do it because I really like their product. http://www.giderosmobile.com/
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by NoPiece 14y ago
People on here who have worked at both big companies and startups should really appreciate how hard it is to manage large organizations efficiently. Things that work great at small scale fall apart as they grow (both organizationally and te
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by NoPiece 14y ago
wait a sec. The article totally leaps to that conclusion without evidence. It presents two facts - There were strong racist elements to the anti-cocaine movement, and that Coke removed cocaine. But you can't show from those two facts that C
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by NoPiece 14y ago
The gap between plausible claim, and substantiated claim used to be the realm journalism. Especially if you are going to start tagging people as racist, you should be able back it up. Plausible claims are ok for rumors about the next iPhone
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by NoPiece 14y ago
The article seems to have some factual inconsistencies. He cites the NY Times saying anti-cocaine legislation had started to appear in 1903, "By 1903, [then-manager of Coca-Cola Asa Griggs] Candler had bowed to white fears (and a wave of an
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Totally agree. According to Wikipedia, there are 2,774 four year universities in the US (4,495 if you include two year). If you can't get yourself into one of the top 1000 (I'm being generous), your time and money is probably better spent e
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I have a ton of respect for both Singapore and Hong Kong, and would love the opportunity to live and work in Singapore. I just don't see them as exporters of consumer electronics trends. I think it is for a couple reasons. One is that a lot
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I agree. Another anecdotal claim is, "Singapore and Hong Kong tend to be, from an electronics perspective, leading indicators on what is going to be hot in Western Europe and North America, as well as what is going to take off in the region
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I'm surprised the article didn't address the possibility that there was some mental illness involved. I assume the woman was in her early or mid 20's, an age where schizophrenia can manifest.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Asking a co-worker about the AnAl library could elicit a chuckle, or it could be an example of what alienates female programmers from the game industry. It isn't inherently a big deal, but in the hands of the immature and can easily go from
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I agree. Next time you buy something, and have a choice between Newegg who fought and put themselves at risk, and Amazon who took the easy way out, you know who deserves your money.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You could be right. It just reminds me of the kinds of things a schizophrenic friend of mine would say. She would often have a more suspicious interpretation of events than I would.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Maybe it isn't isolationism, but it isn't a trickery to call it such. If you offered the text of the Libertarian platform on international affairs, many was say it describes an isolationist policy, without intending trickery. Also, whatever
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Maybe the schizophrenia is causing the perception of bullying where there may not have been. E.g., "they bribed an ice cream truck to drive by every 15 minutes and ring the bell and play music near my window. "
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Fair enough, there is a difference between non-intervention and isolationism. However, whatever you call it, that position is much more divergent from mainstream opinions than libertarian economics.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I think it is the libertarian foreign policy that is more of a roadblock to the mainstream. Most Americans, left and right support some level of foreign intervention whether it is active military intervention, bases abroad, humanitarian aid
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I expect Battlefield 3, Assassins Creed 3, GTA V have similar development costs. Halo 4's budget was reportedly $40 million, and Gran Turismo's was $60 million. Basically if you can't spend the big bucks to compete, you go out of business (
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I liked Far Cry 3, but it is the perfect example of what I was talking about. Far Cry 2 took a lot of risks (and failed in some ways). Far Cry 3 is polished as hell, but basically dumbed down so that anyone can pick it up and play. Objects
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I agree with you, and am sure if you could make large list of small developers that closed during any given period of time. But there are downsides to the current trends. When big companies have to take bigger financial risks they are less

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