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by ckinnan 17y ago
It is a very cool idea. The tough part is getting the balance right to where quality students will want to contribute (you may need to offer cash rewards) and businesses get value without risking their own IP (what if we have the same idea
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The unemployment numbers are also worse than the "more-adverse" scenario in the bank stress tests. http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/06/unemployment-compa...
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by ckinnan 17y ago
This is wrong. A number of economic studies show that taxpayer-funded stadiums reallocate dollars, they don't help local business on net-- they just increase the value of the sports team. https://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/302 h
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Has this guy never heard of op-code cache? You can easily avoid a lot of script compiling on a production web server.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
"Set Phasers to Stun!"
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How to automate EC2 instance setup with user-data scripts(alestic.com)
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by ckinnan 17y ago
China has a "second-mover" advantage in that they can copy the most successful models and technologies in the West (including Taiwan and Japan) and leapfrog ahead. But China's development isn't that sudden-- they've embraced more-or-less c
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by ckinnan 17y ago
He offers terrible advice telling people to not incorporate. He's stubborn about it even when the audience challenges him. You should incorporate at the very start for a number of reasons-- liability, taxes, IP ownership, banking, hiring c
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by ckinnan 17y ago
He's a political campaign staffer with no business experience whatsoever.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Regular free meals provided by your employer are taxable as income. I learned that the hard way at tax time with another startup...
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by ckinnan 17y ago
These guys can get paid from the state of Oregon which will in turn pursue the company. http://www.boli.state.or.us/BOLI/WHD/W_Whhowinf.shtml
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Yeah, the article includes SaaS as cloud computing. The SaaS portability problem has been around for years. Cloud computing as I think of it-- AWS, Mosso, etc-- is generally built on familiar and open technologies. If anything it is easie
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Sunlight Foundation is doing tremendous work, and Data.gov is a step forward. But we're winning the battle while losing the war...in the last 10 months the government has created a mult-trillion dollar array of bailout programs-- PPIP, TAR
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by ckinnan 17y ago
I just joined. DC is getting some momentum-- there is a great PHP community here and there were decent number of start-ups at the AWS Start-up event today. A lot of the DC tech business is federal government or contractor-related and not
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by ckinnan 17y ago
It was the first modern war...the machine gun, the submarine, and trench warfare were among many of the new developments that would later scourge the world in the 20th century. More importantly, the U.S. emerged from the civil war more full
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by ckinnan 17y ago
"If you want to see American democracy under great stress, the Civil War is the prime example." Yet the author misses the best example-- that in the middle of the war, in 1864, the U.S. held an election for President, even though it looked
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by ckinnan 17y ago
I was a staffer for the U.S. House Budget Committee in the mid-1990s so I've been quite informed for some time. This year's budget deficit is going to be greater than the entire federal budget in 2000. Basically since 2002 spending disc
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The frightening thing is that the U.S. is now pursuing Argentine-style fiscal policy with massive new borrowing and spending, and the specter of protectionism is emerging here with all of the new subsidies and bailouts for domestic automake
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Data.gov: Throwing Open Uncle Sam’s Data Mine(thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by ckinnan 17y ago
"The service seems simple enough, though Patzer says there are five separate patents pending to the technology." I wonder if this is defensive or if they plan to litigate their competitors.
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Welcome to the rotten fruits of crony capitalism 2.0. The millionaires who own Tesla got a $350 million loan from the U.S. government this year. Taxpayers only get downside, while a bunch of insiders and now a foreign carmaker capture all
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by ckinnan 17y ago
addslashes is NOT an appropriate way to prevent SQL injection attacks. Chris Shiflett explained the addslashes vulnerability years ago: http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/jan/addslashes-versus-mysql-re...
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The sad thing is that U.S. taxpayers made Russia whole on their multi-billion dollar investment in Fannie and Freddie bonds...both firms are insolvent and dependent on taxpayer financing yet their creditors are getting paid in full. http:/
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by ckinnan 17y ago
I saw some political polling a couple years ago-- people can't really conceptualize numbers this large. A slight majority of the poll actually thought a million dollars was more than a billion. People have a handle on the size of a millio
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by ckinnan 17y ago
"UP with me! up with me into the clouds! For thy song, Lark, is strong; Up with me, up with me into the clouds! Singing, singing, With clouds and sky about thee ringing, Lift me, guide me till I find That spot which seems so to thy mind!" -
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by ckinnan 17y ago
How exactly is state-controlled media good for democracy?
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by ckinnan 17y ago
The financial crisis was grand political theater-- namely banks, their creditors, and derivative counterparties created a panic in order to stick taxpayers with trillions of dollars in losses. The media and policymakers were either in the
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Bill of Rights, Sixth Amendment: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial...and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him..
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by ckinnan 17y ago
iPod Touch sales growth more than doubled year-over-year last quarter, and Apple has sold 37 million units of the iPhone and iPod Touch
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Interesting fact that Texas, despite having lower taxes, spends more per child on public education than California.

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