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by ckinnan 17y ago
It is nicely done. If I may ask, what does it cost to run each month? What was your business plan for making money from the site? I would try to sell it directly to a likely buyer. It seems like a music school, a foundation, or independen
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by ckinnan 17y ago
This implementation of blunt text search undermines the hash tag innovation on Twitter. They really should have some kind of two tiered search that recognizes that users are already self-organizing conversations...Twitter should be figurin
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by ckinnan 17y ago
A reminder of how brutal unemployment is at the margin. A 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate is not a huge jump statistically but when you are looking for work on the ground it is thousands more people chasing the same job as you
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by ckinnan 17y ago
To look at this politically, the more educated an American, from high school dropout through college graduate, the more likely they are to vote Republican-- a pattern that flips dramatically at the very top. College grads are more likely t
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by ckinnan 17y ago
Same issue for me-- I couldn't readily determine whether this was an open source project, like MediaWiki, or a hosted service that I'm going to pay to use. A lot of the corporate and pricing info I look for was under a different URL, EdGen
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A more comprehensive look at hosted DNS performance(blog.tech.stylefeeder.com)
2 points by ckinnan 18y ago|0 comments
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Ah, Indian Luddites. We fought this battle during our industrial revolution as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Here's a great parody of these ideas from Bastiat. It is a petition from candle-makers to the government, complain
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Delaware has a significant state income tax. Maybe you're fleeing the state for non-payment? http://www.bankrate.com/brm/itax/edit/state/profiles/state_t...
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by ckinnan 18y ago
That's a false choice. I'm proud that the US crew resisted and that the US Navy is involved. The Somalis will be less likely to target US flag ships in the future. It should be a crime to pay a ransom-- the "negotiators" in these cases are
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The international community's willingness to pay these ransoms is making the problem far worse...
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Soros used leverage so his actual profits were vastly greater than 10%.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Housing prices in America can only go up. Buy something now or get priced out forever!
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by ckinnan 18y ago
I've bought a lot of advertising over the years and would use a site like this. Homepage has too much nagging to register without a clear value proposition or explanation of the site's purpose. It isn't clear what the service is from the o
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by ckinnan 18y ago
From the book: "Sadly for Micropro, the one thing they could not do very easily was update their product. After their luck at getting the CP/M version of WordStar running on the PC, they could not seem to get an updated version out the door
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Vouchers are a public education. It is just the delivery mechanism that is private.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The vast majority of the unfunded liabilities of the government (most Social Security obligations, Medicare, pensions, various new bailout programs) aren't captured in the official national debt data at all...total federal obligations under
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Microsoft gets $11 million from stimulus for campus bridge(cnn.com)
5 points by ckinnan 18y ago|6 comments
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The article also mentions Microsoft is shuttering Encarta-- a victim of Wales' Wikipedia. Win some, lose some.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The thing I'd worry about is that a collapse seems most likely when the kids are using the pool. It is irresponsible. He should have poured concrete, perhaps on bearings so the whole thing could be removed in the future.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
60 minutes just ran a story on Ghostnet. It is a terrible development-- these networks undermine online trust and e-commerce everywhere.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
It is, to large degree, the tragic outcome of dysfunctional tax, educational, and regulatory policy. Newt Gingrich gave an interesting speech on the fall of Detroit last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNM6HHJTUMM
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The global taxation feature of the US code is a double taxation on income, as you typically pay taxes in the foreign jurisdiction as well (There are tax treaties that reduce this double taxation in many jurisdictions, but only to a certain
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The tax code is an outrage. The sad thing is that we waste 22 cents in compliance and complexity for every dollar raised for the treasury from the income tax. Obama's plan makes the complex code even worse, increasing the deadweight loss
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Many parts of the US still don't have DSL or cable broadband options.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Ironic that Obama's approach to tech is open source and decentralized, but his approach to the economy is command and control.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
It is interesting, for cultural and for business reasons, most tech companies do not use debt markets. (Tech companies-- especially software companies-- generate lots of cash flow and aren't as capital intensive as other industries). There
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by ckinnan 18y ago
This incident was widely reported at the time.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Only one broke the buck, the Reserve Fund. And they shouldn't have been anywhere near risky Lehman debt. That's what sparked the run-- people wanted out of the Reserve Fund and other investors were freaked that other money markets holding
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by ckinnan 18y ago
"Mexicoke", with sugar instead of HFCS, is the real "classic" Coke!
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by ckinnan 18y ago
It is far more offensive that Citi is still using tax dollars to pay its shareholder dividend.

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