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by ckinnan 12y ago
Lyme is now the number one infectious disease in New England. Until medical science finds an effective cure, the best solution is to hunt deer populations back down to historical and sustainable levels, around 10 or 15 deer per square mile
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by ckinnan 16y ago
This exercise shows a projected budget deficit in 2015 of $418 billion. Seems optimistic. The fiscal year 2010 budget deficit was $1.3 trillion, and the consensus estimate for the hole in fiscal 2011 is another $1.3 trillion...
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by ckinnan 16y ago
The vote was overwhelming 310-118 against the scanners. Here's the Roll Call vote: (June '09) http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll305.xml Unfortunately, the Senate didn't take up the bill. Still it is stunning that the Obama Administrat
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by ckinnan 16y ago
EPIC is fighting the machines in court and online. They have an incident report page: http://epic.org/bodyscanner/incident_report/
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by ckinnan 16y ago
Actually, by convention, Congressman or Congresswoman refers to the Representatives only.
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by ckinnan 16y ago
State budgets are growing but university education is getting a smaller share. The lost dollars are going to Medicaid.
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Venture Capital Was Tight for Tech Start-Ups in '09(nytimes.com)
2 points by ckinnan 17y ago|0 comments
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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson on Business: Make Everything Your Own(huffingtonpost.com)
59 points by ckinnan 17y ago|31 comments
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by ckinnan 17y ago
This is a factually incorrect description of the U.S. America already has massive government-provided health care systems for children, the poor, and the elderly.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Romania's society isn't especially healthy (life expectancy is lower than the U.S.). Neither is its economy, with a per capita GDP of less than $12,000 a year. Don't buy the myths of government-run health care. It increases corruption and
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Just to clarify-- the percentage increase in your taxes is much higher than 2.5%-- a 2.5% new tax rate is probably a 5 or 7% increase depending on your existing tax burden.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
I checked it out today, I was disappointed with the keypad, which is important to me as I have big hands. The Droid keys don't have much separation and aren't raised like Blackberry's. If you buy it online the $100 rebate is instant and yo
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The U.S. was one of the first nations to make it illegal for its own citizens to pay bribes overseas with the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The bill passed even though the US knew we'd lose business overseas. It was also very steady
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by ckinnan 17y ago
It is a keystroke to change from euro to dollars to buy oil and another keystroke for the seller to exchange those dollars for another currency. The fact that oil is priced in one currency has almost no impact on the underlying supply and
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by ckinnan 17y ago
This piece is rather poorly reasoned. It matters very little what currency oil is priced in...oil is re-priced constantly (as is the dollar), and the dollar can readily and immediately be exchanged with euro or yen or most anything else in
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Amazon needs to check its IPs against the blacklists before releasing them back into the AWS pool.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
HSA's are a step towards reform and are used by millions of people, but Congress is working to eliminate them: http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_ref...
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The problem is that the federal government explicitly penalizes this type of care through the tax code. Consumers pay these doctors with after-tax dollars while employers can use pre-tax dollars to buy insurance for their employees. This i
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US Govt Refuses to Disclose Recovery.gov Contract Details(propublica.org)
1 points by ckinnan 17y ago|0 comments
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by ckinnan 17y ago
A better comparison than Chicago is Argentina's neighbor Chile, which is far less endowed than Argentina and has been poorer historically. Chile, however, has pursued market economics since the 1980s and now enjoys a living standard that i
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by ckinnan 17y ago
While true that disclosure aids the minority party, and both sides pay some degree of lip service to the issue of transparency, it is still important for American democracy that our political leaders make bills available to the full Congres
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by ckinnan 17y ago
I've seen 40-50% improvements from APC in PHP, it would be interesting to see these same tests with byte code cache implemented in each platform.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
I'm a big fan of Mixergy-- Andrew's interviews are terrific and from the perspective of aspiring entrepreneurs. Definitely a site that will be of interest to HN readers.
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Tiny Electric Car Startup Gets $529 Million Govt Loan(online.wsj.com)
2 points by ckinnan 17y ago|1 comments
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by ckinnan 17y ago
It is not a net positive because they tax successful parts of the economy and, through a political process, redistribute that money to favored businesses and connected insiders. Anyway, the U.S. government already operates SBA ($28 billion)
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Do we really think that the Commerce Department can run a venture slush fund without political influence and outright corruption? This is not the responsibility of the U.S. government, it is another avenue for the political class to expand
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by ckinnan 17y ago
There's also a company "birth-death" adjustment that tries to account for startup job creation...some argue that it is overstating employment. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/birth-death-adjustment-... http://www.bls.gov/web/cesbd.h
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The Coptic Christian community in Egypt-- which numbers in the millions and predates the arrival of Islam-- raises pigs and eats pork.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
This is about Sarbanes-Oxley, the mindlessly prescriptive financial markets "reform" that did nothing to stop the massive fraud and collapse of the past three years but has added literally a trillion dollars in costs on US businesses. "I th
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Mint.com: Nurtured by Super-Angel VCs(businessweek.com)
36 points by ckinnan 17y ago|3 comments

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