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by chishaku 11y ago
If there is any silver lining... "The settlement expressly preserves the government’s ability to bring criminal charges against Goldman, and does not release any individuals from potential criminal or civil liability." https:&#x2
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Hacker News Onion(twitter.com)
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"839 people convicted in the savings-and-loan scandals of the 1980s." "1 Wall Street executive convicted for actions during the recent financial crisis." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/m
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> ...pesky facts... Estimated budget of Koch network in January 2015: "The political network overseen by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch plans to spend close to $900 million on the 2016 campaign, an unpara
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by chishaku 11y ago
There's a well-trodden argument that much of financial innovation has little positive effect or even negative effect on the larger economy. Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group: "The job of finance is to provide capital to compan
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In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA(latimes.com)
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> One interesting side-thing with list comprehensions Just to clarify, this is the behavior of py2 for loops in general, whether in a comprehension or not.
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> Being against the prison industrial complex feels good, but in doing so you become directly, personally responsible for the fact that there are now 3 people in a cell meant for one... Is there any evidence that people "against the
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"The evidence from South Africa suggests that divestment, while ineffective in a financial sense, can have an impact by shaping public discourse. If universities across the country divested from fossil fuels, this would again be the ca
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> it has to treat those people who become addicts instead of just imprisoning them. I'm not sure if you're implying that the rate of addiction would increase due to legalization but regarding that claim, the Netherlands and Por
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by chishaku 11y ago
Yes. There's no silver bullet for protecting and preserving rights. Better technology (e.g. secure software, encryption) are part of the solution but this does not preclude the requirement of citizens and their associations (e.g. corp
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Obama Administration Denies Record 77% of FOIA Requests(hosted.ap.org)
19 points by chishaku 11y ago|3 comments
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A few more resources along the same lines: * Tracking Congressional bills, Congressional representatives and voting history: https://www.govtrack.us/ * General resource on local, state and federal elections: https:/&#
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> Demilitarize the police at the same time. Unfortunately, we're going in the opposite direction. -- http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-america... SWAT teams were deployed about 3,000 tim
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The Ungoverned World(bloomberg.com)
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> Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn't they? A couple notes on the war drum: The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force [0] targeting the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks has been invoked to deploy U
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> At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government. > Only one economist, William D. Nordhaus of Yale, se
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Million Dollar Blocks(spatialinformationdesignlab.org)
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Full transcript: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/jefm-v-lynch-deposition-... The comments in question start on page 18. --- Q. It must be true that there's some children that are so young that even if they r
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by chishaku 11y ago
I wonder if this is open to all 1,649 presidential candidates, or just 2 or 5? http://www.fec.gov/data/Form2Filer.do?format=html On another note, I wonder if this has anything to do with Medium who has been positioning
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> ICQ, Microsoft instant messenger ... slack like tools... I think people too often overlook Slack's integrations. Yes, Slack is "just" chat or "just" a glorified IRC. Or is it? I don't know how long it wo
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by chishaku 11y ago
Get good sleep and drink water. Two of the simplest pieces of advice that can go a really long way for your mental and physical health.
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A few commenters are noting that Gross is just talking his book with this pessimistic outlook. To be fair, he's had a consistently pessimistic long view over the years. 2010: Several months ago I rhetorically asked whether it was possi
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Filling out setup.py and other package boilerplate used to annoy me as well but that all changed after I started using cookiecutter. https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
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What's the worst that could happen for any of these companies or their senior executives if they refuse to cooperate? Most corporate criminal penalties we hear about these days have become minor costs of doing business. And it's
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No, the monopsony designation is key to the comment I was responding to and the point I was trying to make. If there is no monopsony power, it's hard to make any claim of abuse on the part of the government. Single payer governments a
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by chishaku 11y ago
Is that a monopsony though? The market for drug companies is global. If you were talking about doctors or some type of medical provider that was limited to providing goods and services within a single jurisdiction, you might have a point.
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Bank of America’s Newest Mortgage: 3% Down and No FHA(wsj.com)
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When it comes to Medicare, there is a much easier win: just allow the government to negotiate prices. The government should have massive bargaining power. > When Congress created the Medicare drug benefit in 2003, it specifically prohib
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by chishaku 11y ago
Very nice. I much prefer this to howdoi. A couple suggestions: Does the `-l lang` flag correspond to stackoverflow tags which aren't necessarily limited to languages? This should be specified because the right tag can significantly in

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