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by api 16y ago
Telcos and cable companies often receive subsidies at the state level to bring broadband to out-of-the-way places, for speed improvements, etc. Not sure if this is the case in NC, but the situation nationwide is not that clear-cut.
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by api 16y ago
BP got far more in government handouts to pay for their Gulf oil rig blowout disaster. In a free market, BP would now be bankrupt as it would have had to pay for the cleanup of hundreds and hundreds of miles of damaged coastal property as w
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by api 16y ago
" ...Ninja Warrior Agile ScrumMaster and Incompetent MBA Popped Collar... " Epic.
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by api 16y ago
.. and this is different from what Rupert Murdoch has been doing for the last 30 years, or what Seymour Hersh did before that, because... ?
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by api 16y ago
There are worse things like... Fox News? I for one would love to see a powerful counter-force to Rupert Murdoch in this world.
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by api 16y ago
We also still use the English system of weights and measures. America thinks anything new in the area of standards is communism or something.
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by api 16y ago
"X is dead" is a sure-fire indicator of vapidity.
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by api 16y ago
Because of things like peak oil, growing resource demand from the developing world, etc., I think it's going to look like this for the immediate/foreseeable future: Alternating cycles of inflationary bubble economies followed by deflationar
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by api 16y ago
I don't think anyone is really being fooled anymore. They just get the game, and understand that cheap-money bubbles are a normal part of that game.
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by api 16y ago
I personally think that the fed now has no choice but to pump money at zero (to effectively negative) interest forever. There's a number of reasons for this: demographics, peak oil, the massively deflationary effect of certain technologies,
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by api 16y ago
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xtreme_bulls...
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by api 16y ago
Frameworks are the wrong way to solve many problems at once. Frameworks are a disease. An example of something that solves lots of problems at once well: a language and its compiler/interpreter.
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by api 16y ago
"There was a study recently that found there was a higher correlation between life outcome and where one APPLIED to college than there was to where one WENT to college." That is very interesting. Thanks.
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by api 16y ago
In addition, I think it's misleading to count "no affiliation" as "no religious beliefs." What about new-age spirituality, alternative spirituality, etc.? Those typically don't show up in these kinds of studies, but they do qualify as relig
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by api 16y ago
All mainstream religion is, at its core, a fertility cult.
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by api 16y ago
But what about great people with a really bad idea that they are committed to? Seems to me that that would be a bad investment. Also: Be careful about your metric of great. The metric of great must be "this person is a genius with lots of
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by api 16y ago
"He was wrong, because the mistake of architecture astronauts is not that they want to solve a template to a lots of problems. " YES. This idea has always bothered me: "don't solve a template of a lot of problems, solve one problem ." Isn
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by api 16y ago
The latest trend in business: make money by creating no value whatsoever! Actually, in my experience this is the MBA ideal. From the pure bean-counting perspective, the ideal business would be something that just made free money. No staff,
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by api 16y ago
Java is a fine language, but the community suffers from rampant over-engineering and frameworkitis. There's this belief that frameworks save time by saving you from writing code, but in the end the amount of time you have to spend learning
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by api 16y ago
Side note but: I've always thought that this kind of technology rather than rockets/spacecraft is the limiting factor preventing us from being able to realistically colonize another planet. When you got to Mars, the Moon, etc., you'd have t
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by api 16y ago
The cloud's real advantage is the ability to build out fast, but it is not cost. It is cheaper to build it yourself and run it yourself if you know exactly what you need, and have time to do so. If you don't, the cloud is cheaper. So you'
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by api 16y ago
Real estate hyperinflation is probably part of the problem. You can't afford to live well in the Valley unless you've had a liquidity event. This is particularly true if you want to start a family, which chops off the population at age 30 o
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by api 16y ago
I do not live in the Valley, so I may be clueless, but... I get the impression from afar that the Valley has become a center of hype more than a center of substance. The whole Singularity University thing strikes me as a shark jumping momen
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by api 16y ago
But I am sure they take into account the properties of graphite, and I'm sure making sure that Chernobyl thing doesn't happen is high on the list.
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by api 16y ago
You can also often make clever use of RAII and STL container classes and do memory management that way.
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by api 16y ago
You're right, but this is another case of the same problem. If one bureaucracy-- government or corporate-- controls it, then it stagnates. Big single choke point equals bad.
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by api 16y ago
That's a pretty good counterpoint. I remember when I was a kid in the early 90s and every single movie had a one-liner that started with "A tough cop..."
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by api 16y ago
So the USA is executing dissidents now?
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by api 16y ago
Reading more... The Top Gun era sent the ambitions of those who wanted to break into the biz spiraling in a new direction. Fifteen years earlier, scores of young people headed to film schools to become directors. With the advent of the Rea
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by api 16y ago
It seems like nearly all of today's pop culture is based on earlier works. We are doing almost nothing original, at least in the pop field. You can find original in the indy world though, but you have to dig a lot.

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