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by bokonist 17y ago
Mainly because venture investors need to get their capital back, so they can invest it in new startups. The most common investors in the venture capital asset class are pension funds and university endowments. They have the least need fo
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by bokonist 17y ago
Avoid comments about naivety and instead focus on the actual content at hand. Exhibit the maturity that your writing and education seem to indicate. The internet is an autistic medium. When you called my views "dangerous", I thought you
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by bokonist 17y ago
Almost half of your citations come from one source, and they're all essentially opinion articles. Of course they are opinion articles. Saying the university is a pillar of civilization and promoter of the truth is an opinion. Saying the
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by bokonist 17y ago
The same professional association exists in Canada and other countries, yet our health care expenditures are under control. Well, then we could also blame James Madison. The U.S. is one of the few countries to have a Congress, and the Co
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by bokonist 17y ago
I assure you, my views are not prejudiced at all. They are fully informed and postjudiced. My main experience with college is from attending an Ivy. But I do have close friends who have attended the little Ivies. I've visited and sat in
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by bokonist 17y ago
Excellent point.
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Since it wasn't mentioned in the thread: Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard. By far the best economics book I have read.
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by bokonist 17y ago
Am I the only person who actually wants a full and balanced education? There is more free thinking contained in one Hacker News thread then you'll find in most college academic departments. An institution is its selection process. And t
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by bokonist 17y ago
I've always been puzzled. Is ADD an actual disorder? Or is it the normal state of most humans? I have never been diagnosed with ADD. Nor have I ever thought of trying to get diagnosed. But I identify with your comment. In fact, your w
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by bokonist 17y ago
What do you mean Trenton has no super markets? A quick google maps search shows over a dozen super markets and grocery stores. The rent you cite is less expensive than the suburbs. The cities I know best are Philly, DC, and New Haven. I
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by bokonist 17y ago
Most (non-Austrian) economists believe that the gold standard actually exacerbated the great depression. It's possible to run a sound currency regime using fiat dollars. But the U.S. has not done so. And the people pushing our decidedly
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by bokonist 17y ago
I never said that you said that running out of oil caused the depression ;-)
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Flag it.
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1) Read "Gang Leader for a day" or watch the Wire and then compare it to a first hand account of the slums of the 1900s. We are richer now thanks to technology. But the pathologies and decay of the slums is much, much worse. The progress
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by bokonist 17y ago
The urban poor usually have much better bus access and walking access to jobs. That saves a lot of money. The cost of housing is also super cheap. And many inner cities do have inexpensive super markets, cheap ethnic grocers, and dollar
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by bokonist 17y ago
This article is of extremely poor quality. It's just all over the place, jumping from one cliched argument to another, without finishing a thought or connecting the evidence. Running out of oil is a very serious concern, but it has zero t
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by bokonist 17y ago
Here is a great blog post describing the crime problems of an inner city grocery market: http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=604 From the post: A day in the life of Tom Boy Super Market consists partly of stopping people from robbing the plac
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by bokonist 17y ago
I was a progressive until I discovered that the progressive movement caused many of the worst problems affecting the poor in America. Intentions are not the same as results.
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I cannot find the statistic, but I am sure I read once that statistically marriages started between 23-27 have the lowest rates of divorce (if you only count first marriages, then I think the lowest rates come at a bit older age). Anyway, i
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by bokonist 17y ago
I agree completely. All poverty statistics should be denominated in eggs.
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Those statistics are totally the wrong ones to look at. It's "Age at marriage for those who divorce in America". You want "Divorce rate by age at marriage".
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by bokonist 17y ago
The other (possibly the easiest reason why prenups can fall apart) is that the agreement has to be entered upon voluntarily by both parties, so if your spouse only agreed to the pre-nup because you threatened a break up then the pre-nup is
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by bokonist 17y ago
The basic problem in Rio is that the lower classes reproduce at a far greater rate than the middle class. Every year, the Favelas grow larger and larger, and the habitable areas shrink ever smaller. What kind of policy would you recommend
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by bokonist 17y ago
The crime problem needs to be solved first, or employers will simply never return to the burned out areas. As one super market in Detroit says ( http://www.detroitblog.org/?paged=2 ): A day in the life of Tom Boy Super Market consists pa
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by bokonist 17y ago
The injustice is when the court strips the father of custody and then forces him to pay child support. Child support should only be required if the father voluntarily renounces custody. Otherwise, custody should be split equally and no ch
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by bokonist 17y ago
In the U.S. a variety of factors caused law enforcement in the major cities to break down in the late 60's and 70's (factors include: supreme court rulings, the great society, demagoguing politicians, lawsuits). As a result, crime shot upw
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by bokonist 17y ago
If the author's hypothesis is true, then if the state grants the lower class a level of material well being equivalent to the middle or upper classes, then then social indicators should improve. Unfortunately, we have tried this already, a
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by bokonist 17y ago
Well, virtually everything that gets spouted as gospel ends up turning out not to be true five, ten years later. Fats are good, then fats are bad, then they are good again. Then only certain kinds of fat, then other kinds of fat, etc. If
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The northern cities of U.S. were very unequal in the early 1900's, but had much lower murder rates than today. In Baltimore and Philadelphia mansions inhabited by old money sat blocks away from immigrant tenements. Yet the murder rates we
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The confusion of correlation with causation is everywhere in the social sciences. The entire profession suffers from the keys and lamppost fallacy. They study intensive mathematics and then they end up trying to attack every problem with

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