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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't know about that but Techmeme clearly takes HN into account. I've noticed many times where an article makes it to Techmeme without any other blogs linking to it. Every time that's happened I've found the article on the top of the H
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I don't expect research but at least do a search on Wisconsin Budget Deficit. That's what I did and I came up with this ( http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/109275069.html )... Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's administration on Friday
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Let me say up front that I agree with you on demonizing people who purchased these bonds. But let me play devil's advocate. For years politicians have been talking about "Predatory Home Loans" where banks supposedly took advantage of peopl
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This is what makes me think we're only in phase 1 of the financial meltdown. The article tries to paint a rosy picture saying we just need the "political will" to make changes. But we're a nation where the national debt's risen from 8 Tri
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The people discussed in this article are people are rich enough to be able to influence politicians with their own personal money. To people with that kind of wealth I don't think flight travel and hotel expenses are that big a deal. They
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More than the iPad 2 I think the price cut on the iPad 1 Hurts the xoom. Because while the specs might be better on the Xoom you can't deny that the cheapest iPad is now half the price of the cheapest xoom. I think we're now to the point w
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I don't necessarily disagree with him but his analysis leaves out a very important point. In 1960 it wasn't really possible for rich person to live in a country like Singapore or Taiwan and still maintain relationships in the United States.
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True but every company has mostly loyal employees (imho). The trick is keeping the dishonest ones in-line and the best way to do that is through fear. Apple makes it clear they'll go nuclear on anyone who leaks information and the dishone
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Simple. They... 1. Take steps that make it easier to identify leakers (like embedding secret numbers into promotional photos so they can tell who leaked them if they get published) and 2. They pursue anyone who dares leak information wit
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But privatizing it isn't going to take the infrastructure away from the public. So the question is one of cash flow not the overall value of the asset. No one's saying it was a bad decision to build the infrastructure. The the state only
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True. And they should certainly try to get some money for their assets (and they haven't said they won't). But the point still remains. If you're actively losing money on an investment and selling it for zero is your only option it's sti
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Not if you're trying to act quickly. I'm not saying it's how I would react but he's clearly trying to take immediate action and a long, drawn out process isn't conducive to that. Any government bidding program is going to take several year
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I don't see how this is bizarre. He's trying to jettison anything that loses money. Selling a business for nothing is a net profit to you if the business is losing money. As far as Koch Industries they specifically said (in the 2nd link y
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As I pointed out in my reply the Koch brothers opposed most of what the Bush administration did and both sides play the "money for a movement" game (again going back to George Soros and friends).
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Considering the Koch brothers right wing at all is an act of ignoring inconvinient facts. The Koch brothers have given more to the ACLU than they have to all political candidates combined ( http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/25/the-koch-brothe
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Just to give him credit up front this is more coherent than 99% of the stuff he posts. So kudos on that front. But it doesn't seem to have a point beyond "I hate anonymous people because they pick on me". As far as that goes I like anonym
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The only real evidence they present is the Stanford study that found charter schools don't perform better than regular public schools. So their argument is that unions can't be the problem because charter schools don't have them and are do
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But Box.net is a child of the Web and the Facebook era, rather than an earlier age of desktop and server-based enterprise applications built to work only inside corporate networks. That means it’s less intimidating to use—and it also means
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It is interesting but largely irrelevant (I haven't read through the whole thing yet but I read through the 18 page summary in the beginning). For example, take a couple of the changes they suggest... - Raise the Social Security retirement
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And this... "He lied to Steve Wozniak. When they made Breakout for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350. Again, no judgment. Yo
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I'm for Gay Marriage but I think he loses some serious integrity points for this because he openly said he was against Gay Marriage during the campaign. Beyond that the Justice Department's job is (by their own definition) "enforcement of t
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This is true in most industries. You either move on to a management position or stagnate. The problem is it doesn't really work in the development world where you can get better and better the more deeply you use and understand the techno
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You're a little harsher than I would be but you make a good point. The problem with online reputation on this type of system is most people won't verify the answers before they upvote them. At the same time an insular community creates a
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Well I'm happy your child is healthy but your attitude is exactly the problem. The question isn't what your child's life is worth the question is could that doctor have done the same thing for less money. Because if we could've paid him $50
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The average cost per inmate in California is about $49,000, twice the cost to run prisons in other states (the average is around $28,000). Some states are even less. The average cost per inmate in Florida is under $20,000. Texas is a litt
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This seems a little naive to me. Google requires you to be logged into a Google account to access the OS. Given that fact they'll have access to everything the user does. So the opportunities to make a profit are endless to the point of
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Thanks. I don't know where I got that (above post edited accordingly)
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Its got a lot more going for it than previous technologies. The ones I can come up with off the top of my head... * Based on OpenGL Embedded which is itself based on OpenGL (a standard that's been around forever) * Tied to an already hot t
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I personally think we are at the beginning of a bubble but I'd just like to throw one thought out there. A bubble is only a problem if the businesses spend like the bubble will never end. If companies use their money judiciously than they
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This doesn't paint an accurate picture. On that note I practically beg you to listen to this podcast: http://tinyurl.com/4g4727g Or at very least listen to the 15 minutes between 2:03 and 17:07. Yes it's a talk radio show and Yes talk r

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