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by azulum 15y ago
i for one am in favor of abolishing the IRS completely. i'm convinced a more inefficient and backwards institution does not exist in the US. sadly, though, the best solution i have seen proffered is the fairtax http://www.fairtax.org/ (wh
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by azulum 15y ago
if by "your mind cannot heal anything" means "everything dies eventually" then i agree wholeheartedly. but that's probably not what you meant. considering that many of a maladies today stem from chemical imbalances controlled by the brain,
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by azulum 15y ago
loved one of the posters about the student loan crisis being the next housing crisis. i have a bachelors with three majors. i graduated in 2008. my education has been worth (45000) plus (5 years) plus an ability to recognize bullshit. yep,
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by azulum 15y ago
i read #2, you know Only when you have exhausted all possibilities should you ask for help. and stopped reading. this is hands down one of the most asinine things i have ever read—though i don't doubt many feel this way. one of the purpos
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by azulum 15y ago
for many, the value proposition of apple products means that they less expensive—that is, they cost less frustration. this is not always so—you consider a card reader and usb-slot and keyboard dock to be a net win, but not everyone feels th
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by azulum 15y ago
"but the average physician is old." this is a curious statement to me for three reasons: 1) the ipad has been hailed as a device for first time computer users—the very old and the very young or even the physically/mentally challenged. 2) if
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by azulum 15y ago
considering how much randomness can clump failures and successes, a small set of consumer used stories with hardware from different vendors, or even disparate IT departments with their "floaters" will leave you with a result you can't be su
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by azulum 15y ago
exactly. there are superhuman freaks of nature: albert pujols and michael phelps come to mind. in addition, this study necessarily discounts the contribution of those that have actually changed entire industries. a single person might have
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by azulum 15y ago
in aggregate, i would say that everything in this study is on point. but there is a caveat— in aggregate . just as there is human variation in size, strength, appearance, so is there variation in intelligence, endurance and work ethic. try
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by azulum 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve no edit button here on HN. or i am blind. though i suppose both are possible.
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by azulum 15y ago
sales would almost certainly be higher, but revenue may not. it's a less convoluted version of the <a href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve>laffer curve</a>—the argument for lowering taxes to raise revenue. i thi
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by azulum 15y ago
inconceivable!
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by azulum 15y ago
being able to deliver a good keynote ≠ having a critical eye. and just like that, your argument vanishes in a poof of logic.
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by azulum 15y ago
Muse (code name) Design and publish unreadable HTML because you don't write code.
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by azulum 15y ago
i hear you man. i find myself in nearly the same predicament, though i just lost my job…happy days indeed. i'm with abcd_f—write it down and tell someone about it. focus on doing one thing really well but still giving yourself time to decom