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by bhb916 13y ago
If true, why veil it at all? Why not just defund it alone? The government reserves the right to not fund whatever it wants to. This will have an awful lot of collateral damage. So much so that I doubt the primary motivation was simply defun
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by bhb916 13y ago
I agree with the trend you're describing although I slightly disagree with the absolutism (i.e. "every incremental discovery" and "no longer possible"). Still, regardless of this increasing demand for funds, there are other ways to procure
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by bhb916 13y ago
There are a lot of reasons, as other commenters have pointed out, including all the existing capital that would have to be retooled or scraped. However, I don't think you can overlook the damage the bailouts did. The Chrystler bailout in 19
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by bhb916 13y ago
I think they were. Speaking as someone who is generally pro-austerity, I think R&R concluded that after 90% debt/GDP there was major drop-off in GDP growth. The corrections all but destroy this assertion. That's not to say that debt and
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by bhb916 13y ago
Doubtful. The World Bank cites [1] extreme poverty statistics for 1981, 1990, and 2008 as 52%, 43%, and 22% respectively. Using world population statistics that would equal extreme poverty populations of 2.31B, 2.27B, and 1.29B. I imagine a
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by bhb916 14y ago
So far I've already seen two comments dismissing this as an evil plot to drive down labor costs. I hear this argument a lot and I can't over emphasize my absolute disgust for it. It seems to cross both class and party lines. There are human
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by bhb916 14y ago
That seems more like a failure with "regulating" organized crime than a call for regulating taxi cabs.
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by bhb916 14y ago
Although I admit that you could use the arguments you put forth to make a case for regulation of the taxi industry I think you'd have a hard time justifying the existing medallion system based solely on those reasons. The medallion system (
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by bhb916 14y ago
Actually, that line turned me off to the whole plight. She clearly has a case, why would her first though be complete hopelessness?
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by bhb916 14y ago
Eh. Is everything in my house (i.e. my subnet 192.168. . ) going to run out of IPV4 addresses? Right now cost is a far more important factor.
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by bhb916 14y ago
Great work. I've been keeping a close eye on the CC3000 for some time. I've also looked at the Wi2Wi modules/chips. I've been working (whenever work and home allows) on some hardware to connect the CC3000 with a Xilinx FPGA. Hopefull, I wil
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by bhb916 14y ago
Double Dragon was super expensive. I had to get my dad to take me to a Toys R Us that was 40 miles away just to pick it up, too. The prices weren't necessarily based on quality either, I paid $64.99 for Ghostbuster (NES) and that game was a
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by bhb916 14y ago
Treating corporations as people for legal purposes doesn't concern me -- in fact it's a vital simplification that preserves our rights as individuals. The "de facto" immunity concerns me greatly. You can't imprison a corporation, true, but
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by bhb916 14y ago
I don't disagree with what you said (in fact I upvoted it because it's spot on), but this sort of makes FDIC insurance a sham, right? They're basically claiming they will insure your money in a bank until they need it -- then it's fair game
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by bhb916 14y ago
I think you're a bit too fixated on corporations. There is nothing magical about being incorporated that suddenly grants you wide control over your elected official. In fact, any legal entity (individual, corporation, or otherwise) that hol
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by bhb916 14y ago
I'm reminded of a scene from the classic Independence Day: President Whitmore: "What is it you want us to do?" Alien: "Dieeeeeeeeee." It may sound cruel, but the movie studios (especially the large ones) are watching their business model ge
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by bhb916 14y ago
A close friend of mine is an ophthalmologist. The Medicare reimbursement rate for a cataract surgery is a little over $300. This is surgery that restores eyesight. How much would you pay to have your eyesight restored? It's clearly not mark
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by bhb916 14y ago
I make no judgment of her personally by saying this, but I'm pretty sure this is the moment she's been waiting for.
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by bhb916 14y ago
In general I like Legere but I don't see that happening mainly due to people's preferences. As mobile phone computing power and capabilities progress consumers are going to want the latest and greatest to hit the shelves. Also, I'm not sure
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by bhb916 14y ago
I don't think customers in the US and UK markets are addicted to handset subsidies -- they just don't know any better. I recently moved to an MVNO that uses the T-Mobile network and three-months in I really couldn't be happier. More than th
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by bhb916 14y ago
A real driver for the inflated price is so that they can cover the marginal loss they're taking on every Medicare patient. That loss is only going to get worse as the program expands.
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by bhb916 14y ago
Thanks for the follow-up post. I'm not going to continue this dead thread, but I do appreciate the reply.
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by bhb916 14y ago
At every hospital I've ever been to (N=3) that answer is a firm "no". With one hospital the price was automatically knocked down 75% before any negotiations took place and this policy was advertised everywhere. At another hospital I simply
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by bhb916 14y ago
This comment is one big logic failure. First, a claim that policy has been intentionally written to redistribute wealth upwards and then as evidence two charts that don't show policy or intention. The next link indicates the results of a s
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by bhb916 14y ago
He is referring to it as an "asset seizure" because he already paid incomes taxes on this amount. Prop 30 was passed late in the year, after most of this income was made. If we classify this as a tax, then all true asset seizures could be r
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US Dept. of Defense releases Software Defined Radio Framework(redhawksdr.github.com)
1 points by bhb916 14y ago|0 comments
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by bhb916 14y ago
You misunderstand individual freedom. Freedom, in the context of a "free nation", isn't freedom from consequences or risks (even those out of a person's control), it's freedom from the imposition of state-sponsored force. This is an importa
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by bhb916 14y ago
1. Price and wage controls weren't forcing companies to compete on benefits, starting us down a path of employer-linked health insurance. 2. People paid for their medical expenses directly providing direct feedback into the system. 3. Less
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by bhb916 14y ago
My company bootstrapped and we just initiated a group policy 13 months after our doors opened. This is, of course, anecdotal, but I think it's very well in the realm of possibility. Regardless, even in states like CA high-deductible plans (
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by bhb916 14y ago
This statement sounds totally odd to me on both ends. First, the US pays more in a lot of markets. By and large, that's because we can. Second, capitalism isn't applied. That sounds like it's some sort of regulatory tool that just isn't bei

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