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by ckinnan 18y ago
HFCS exists ONLY because of US government policy. The US sugar program drives up the price of sugar by limiting domestic supplies and imports. As as result it is profitable to mill corn into sweetener, and U.S. food makers use it as a subs
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by ckinnan 18y ago
This is huge. The autism community has long suspected that mercury is a driver, yet eliminating it from childhood vaccines hasn't lowered the rate. Could HFCS-borne mercury be the cause? HFCS was introduced into the food supply in the mi
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by ckinnan 18y ago
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson, 1816.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
That's a wreck in Ethopia where the hijacker grabbed the controls at the last moment before ditching and crashed the plane.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Right, sorry, 2017 is the year the total paid to retirees is greater than the incoming contributions. Medicare is already running in the red, by the way.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
On the whole, the Founding Fathers were extremists for liberty. They were quite radical, by the standard of their day and certainly by today's standards. Extreme liberty == Articles of Confederation (the first failed U.S. government, wasn'
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Social Security taxes are actually a rather large 12.4% of income. (this includes the employer contribution, which is economically part of a worker's compensation.) http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/taxRates.html Worker "contributions" als
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The world badly needs a hard currency that is independent of political control.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
No doubt this is a market segmentation play (or maybe a lead generation strategy), not really a new business model. Match.com also created chemistry.com to compete with eharmony.
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Get ready for a lost decade(online.wsj.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The deductible bribe was true in much of Europe until the mid 1990s, not just Germany. The US pushed them to change the laws.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Actually, more important to the deteriorating economics of outsourcing: the dollar is down substantially since 2002. http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/US/M
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Don't worry, TARP funds will ensure their executives all receive bonuses this year.
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WSJ made to believe Google abandons strict net neutrality(online.wsj.com)
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Funeral director had $250 million stash of IBM stock(portfolio.com)
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Mumbai terrorists used Google Earth, had tech edge over police(apnews.myway.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Complexity is deliberate in affairs of state. It provides politicians and lobbyists with power and secrecy.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The cool idea in this is that universal libraries like jquery basically become locally cached...no download needed even if it is the first time they hit your site.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
TRS-80 was good enough for me, should be fine for today's kids.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
At least the dotcom bubble produced world class companies like Amazon and eBay and Google. The housing bubble leaves us with only foreign debt and unproductive granite countertops.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
>>which got an ok from the SEC to increase their leverage. Agreed. But it isn't "deregulation" to give only the 5 largest investment banks (which were systemically important) an exemption to leverage rules governing all other banks
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by ckinnan 18y ago
A straight tax on carbon emissions is far more transparent and less prone to political abuse and self-dealing. The tax could be totally offset by a cut in the payroll tax (as Gore proposes-- tax carbon, not work).
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by ckinnan 18y ago
And if you feel that way, you should invest in Tesla. Don't ask taxpayers to subsidize private equity...this is cronyism, it is not capitalism.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Worked for the Olympics and Massachusetts.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Actually the average UAW salary is around $73 an hour. But the executives are far worse and totally undeserving of any taxpayer help: "While Uncle Sam debates a $25 billion rescue for the country's automakers, some 9,000 GM managers contin
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by ckinnan 18y ago
What about the hundreds of small businesses and startups that are paying the taxes to subsidize the Detroit Three's failure?
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The last thing America needs is another federal "czar," especially for specific product sectors. The Soviets lost, remember?
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Health Care Company Responds to Data Theft and Extortion with $1 Million Reward(bloomberg.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
He writes: "Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise." Again, this feels unethical. If this practice was widespread

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