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by danielnaab 12y ago
> As for my own question, it does look like the majority of the markets will see prices increases. Health spending was growing at an average of 7.2% / year from 1990-2008, vs an estimated 3.6% in 2013. Certainly the slowdown is the
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by danielnaab 12y ago
This should be titled, "two big screens aren't better that one big screen." I've had multiple desktops with two 21" CRTs, back when that made you a fancy boy, and had considerable improvement in workflow from it. No
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by danielnaab 12y ago
I've never understood why people put up with the ridiculous fees banks are charging these days. My credit union charges me one $5 fee per year, and I have checking, savings, overdraft protection, an ATM Visa check-card, Visa credit car
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ACLU Comment on U.S. Supreme Court Action on Wisconsin Voter ID Law(aclu.org)
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by danielnaab 12y ago
I understand the distinction. To clarify, I initially intended "properly value work" to refer to economic value, not moral value. The fact that employers benefit from low wage workers who are productive because they are healthy, p
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by danielnaab 12y ago
I don't disagree with your wording... However, economics _is_ culture. If I pay my workers less than the cost of living I can justify it by the logic of the market, but it is still my choice. The "greed is good" mantra allows
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Let me reframe your question. What is the economic justification of deficit exploding tax-cuts? http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-debt-outlo... Generally speaking, though, I don't think most o
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by danielnaab 12y ago
I think these "sharing economy" companies are going to lose out to the software that makes them possible. There's no reason that a local cab company, co-op, or simple non-profit listing service can't offer the same UX as
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by danielnaab 12y ago
My initial thought after seeing this is Windows support is interesting, but the real value is in making bash friendlier. Something that brings syntactic sugar to bash is welcome in my mind, as I always find myself putzing with Google to fin
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by danielnaab 12y ago
npm supports git repositories as dependencies already (git://github.com/...), so that feature doesn't seem like much added value to me. And considering that any real project needs a manifest, the versioning syntax doesn&
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Having previously lived in Phoenix for several years, I can tell you that the amount of citrus on public property that falls to the ground and rots is huge. Even at high density apartment complexes, people don't pick near capacity (alt
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by danielnaab 12y ago
USPS has authority to run its own deficits quarter to quarter or year to year, and they have significantly improved their financial situation since the financial collapse and large drop in first class mail usage. Last year they would have r
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by danielnaab 12y ago
It's an artificial debt... their pension plan is way oversized. Congress has put them in the ridiculous position of literally pre-paying pension obligations of employees who haven't been born yet.
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by danielnaab 12y ago
The USPS doesn't cost the taxpayer a dime.
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Pressure treated wood is toxic. Cedar is a better choice for food applications.
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by danielnaab 12y ago
There is certainly a convergence point, but when it's $500+ for an iPad... how many teenagers can afford that? The utility of the screen size is secondary when put in those terms. I find it more likely that we're entering a worl
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by danielnaab 12y ago
It depends how you define "lie." The administration created its own shadow intelligence operation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans ) that, effectively, ignored CIA National Intelligence Es
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by danielnaab 13y ago
The question is: do you require pricing data in advance of those you are trading with to earn your spread? If you do, you are not providing a service to the market.
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by danielnaab 13y ago
Well, Googling for research around latency arbitrage lends me to believe the opposite.
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by danielnaab 13y ago
This seems like a back and forth that's quibbling about words. I didn't say there's anything wrong with arbitrage; the critique is the privileged access to market information and the ability to profit off it without adding a
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by danielnaab 13y ago
You can pay for a lot of things, but that doesn't mean it's in the interest of society or the market as a whole. You don't require faster access to provide liquidity, but it sure helps with arbitraging trading activity.
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by danielnaab 13y ago
The problem is that market making is different than the critique, which is that having privileged access to exchange data centers is an unfair advantage that allows rent-seeking. To access information before the general public allows trade
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by danielnaab 13y ago
I am as skeptical about media personalities as anyone else, but I find this explanation hard to swallow. I don't think I would misunderstand a statement like that from a non-native English speaker. In any case, I have no animosity tow
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by danielnaab 13y ago
I'm confused by all this. I find the drama interesting, but Newsweek quoted this: "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand.
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by danielnaab 13y ago
Under what scenario would having an ID number be more useful in identifying someone versus just their name combined with their face? And in the example you give of a security officer not having time to stop someone, are they really going t