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How the IRS Helps the Rich Get Richer(bloomberg.com)
2 points by chishaku 10y ago|1 comments
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by chishaku 10y ago
Does anyone have experience with ZomboDB? "ZomboDB is a Postgres extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch. In order to achieve this, ZomboDB implements Postgres' Access Me
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by chishaku 10y ago
Yes. The Bank of International Settlements ("the central bank of central banks"): Why does financial sector growth crowd out real economic growth? (2015) [0] "In this paper we examine the negative relationship between the r
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Why do you do what you do?(wdydwyd.com)
1 points by chishaku 10y ago|0 comments
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by chishaku 10y ago
State Department policy on Syria is regime change going back to at least 2011. The method/means is still fluid. See the article and State Department testimony below, emphasis mine. NYT, from 2013: "Last summer, as the fighting in
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by chishaku 10y ago
https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
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The Problem with 'Areas of Interest' on Google Maps(citylab.com)
3 points by chishaku 10y ago|0 comments
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Lessons from 20 Years of Kauffman Foundation’s Investments in VC Funds (2012) [pdf](kauffman.org)
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Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line(nytimes.com)
55 points by chishaku 10y ago|18 comments
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A New Low: The New York Times’ Children’s Bedtime Story of Private Equity(nakedcapitalism.com)
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Can Turkey’s Republic Survive Erdogan’s Purge?(bloomberg.com)
17 points by chishaku 10y ago|5 comments
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by chishaku 10y ago
> China's cavalier attitude ... and the cavalier attitude of those buying China's exports. "A significant portion of Chinese emissions of air pollutants in recent years has resulted from the manufacture of goods intended f
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Watching America: International News and Opinion about the U.S(watchingamerica.com)
1 points by chishaku 10y ago|0 comments
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Rclone – rsync for cloud storage(rclone.org)
20 points by chishaku 10y ago|3 comments
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by chishaku 10y ago
> note that it is illegal (and not just a civil issue) to falsify this kind of statement in some states. While true, the Yes Men have a long track record with this type of parody. On this basis, I assume that the legal and monetary repe
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It's Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses(foreignpolicy.com)
4 points by chishaku 10y ago|1 comments
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It's Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by chishaku 10y ago|0 comments
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by chishaku 10y ago
I've mentioned this before and I'm still curious to hear more. > Barry Warsaw, one of the core Python developers, once said that it frustrated him that "The Zen of Python" (PEP 20) is used as a style guide for Python
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Guide to Figuring Out the Age of an Undated Map(xkcd.com)
2 points by chishaku 10y ago|0 comments
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Norway’s $850bn oil fund to sue Volkswagen(ft.com)
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by chishaku 10y ago
I agree. It reads like I'm positing them as models of success which wasn't my intent. I'm just saying that the US gov has tremendous financial resources. Take a small drop ($10B) of those misallocated resources and you can
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by chishaku 10y ago
> The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes It's really a question of political will. Just think about the amount of resources the US spends on the "war on terror" or the "war on drugs" compared to
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Modern Pandas(tomaugspurger.github.io)
1 points by chishaku 10y ago|0 comments
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Federal Reserve Economic Data(research.stlouisfed.org)
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by chishaku 10y ago
> the NSA doesn't have a domestic email archive or even domestic email envelope metadata "Eventually, the NSA gained authority to "analyze communications metadata associated with United States persons and persons believed
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by chishaku 10y ago
Can't the FBI just query the NSA's impressive archive? They don't even need a warrant. https://www.aclu.org/doj-report-fbi-activities-under-section...
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Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Challenge(tomdispatch.com)
119 points by chishaku 10y ago|82 comments
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Panama Papers: John Doe's Manifesto(panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de)
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by chishaku 10y ago
> what did JPM do that involved "outright criminal fraud?" It's hard to know. "One of the terms of the agreement was that the Wagner complaint would never see the light of day." JPM initially offered $1B, saw th
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by chishaku 10y ago
> How come we could find that evidence for all sorts of people, up to and including CEOs, after the S&L crisis? The perspective of Bill Black, senior regulator and litigator during the S&L crisis: "So at the peak of the savi

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