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by ddw 15y ago
At my last job I biked through North Philly everyday. There are some ok neighborhoods, but there are plenty of abandoned strips that look like they were bombed in WWII. It's so sad because you can look at them and say "that used to be a de
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Women have to have a PhD to make as much as men with a BA(kaysteiger.com)
1 points by ddw 15y ago|0 comments
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by ddw 15y ago
Could an anonymizer such as Tor help get around this?
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by ddw 15y ago
What's interesting to me about stories like this is that with content creators can deliver their art/entertainment without the middlemen and actually make good money doing it to the point that they don't need traditional broadcast formats.
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by ddw 15y ago
I honestly can't think of any positives that come with being a truck driver. You aren't even "traveling" in the sense that you get to see different places. You're just burning away life with no time to do anything besides listen to radio
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by ddw 15y ago
> True, but there are real families that incease their income by robbing better off families If you consider taxation theft, then yes.
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by ddw 15y ago
It's oversimplification. Getting in and out of a war isn't as easy as stopping pizza night on Fridays. And the mechanism of raising tax rates isn't similar to asking for and getting a raise from Father's boss.
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by ddw 15y ago
Please, no more family analogies. This metaphorical family can't increase their income by taxing better off families and most families don't have such a debilitating, unnecessary monthly payment like numerous wars to pay off.
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by ddw 15y ago
Code for America is a good project. I know that here in Philadelphia they are trying to make the city government more efficient/productive for citizens.
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by ddw 15y ago
Thank you for writing this. I think the Airbnb story itself is getting kind of stale, but it's continuing to garner discussion on this site and elsewhere because of the underlining issue, namely that valuations and revenues shouldn't over c
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by ddw 15y ago
No matter how true it may be, it's depressing that "vote with their wallets" has replaced just being decent and inclusive to other human beings. That feature decisions should be only a monetary calculation and nothing else. Maybe I'm just
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by ddw 15y ago
It's amazing what a real journalist will be able to confirm compared to TechCrunch.
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by ddw 15y ago
Thanks for clarifying, I should look into it more but it's sometimes difficult to follow these legal things. I know it's not unusual, that's my basic question. I can't imagine anyone reading the patent excerpt in that article and going "oh
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by ddw 15y ago
This is ridiculous. How were they even approved a patent for something so broad and general? Is it a matter of the judges not understanding the technology? There are a lot of recent law school grads out there that are having a hard time f
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by ddw 15y ago
I'm not trying to be crass, I really don't know: what does he mean by Google is "forcing governments to be more open, forcing corporations to play more fairly"? I'm racking my head on how this could be true as I would really like it to bel
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by ddw 15y ago
This article actually looks a little too optimistic to me. I see a lot of chaos with millions of desperate people robbing and hurting anyone that has any food or money, especially in inner cities. "So what good will come of this?" is a lit
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Political start-up set to take on the two party system(nytimes.com)
5 points by ddw 15y ago|1 comments
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by ddw 15y ago
That's what I'm wondering, but they are still heavily promoting cell phones like the recent HTC Evo for Evo 3D trade-in. I don't think they can be a relevant DIY shop and standard electronic store at the same time. All of the stores I've
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by ddw 15y ago
If I buy a CD, burn it to my computer and then sell that CD, do I have to delete the MP3 copy on my computer? The law says yes; I "owned" the music while I possessed the CD. When I sold the CD I gave my ownership and my copies are illegal
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by ddw 15y ago
It would be interesting if Cisco will take advantage of this in any way to allow the control of their networking devices. Not that it's too hard to plug in with an old laptop, but still, the iPad is convenient. It's a little confusing to m
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Cities Report Surge in Graffiti(nytimes.com)
1 points by ddw 15y ago|0 comments
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by ddw 15y ago
Interesting. I imagine it wouldn't have been too hard for the creators of this graphic to include that, but for some reason they left it out (hmm!). Good example of how data visualization can be misleading.
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by ddw 15y ago
Unless someone lives in the woods and is off the grid, they benefit from taxation in some fashion. Perhaps not as much if you don't have government contracts, but still indirectly.
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by ddw 15y ago
Sorry, the "they" was too vague, I meant politicians. There are many in Congress that don't believe that climate change even exists. It seems that most scientists believe that it is the case though.
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by ddw 15y ago
> We leave the economics to the economists, the physics to the physicists, and the medicine to the doctors. But we don't really. Are economists deciding if the U.S. will default in less than two weeks? They can't even come to a conclu
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by ddw 15y ago
Even if Lulzsec gets some of your data, they aren't going to create a huge database of it. The FBI on the other hand...
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by ddw 15y ago
> EDIT: There is a simple unstated question that this thread brings out, though: are you an enemy of my country? Why are you putting this on some kind of George W. Bush paradigm? The government and the country are not the same thing. &
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by ddw 15y ago
So if the Montgomery public transit system went down in 1955, it was the protestors' fault?
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by ddw 15y ago
An uninformed electorate isn't helping, but I don't see how voting is going to fix this. I'm starting to believe that the smart people just don't want to be politicians. It's a good way to become rich and famous, though.
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by ddw 15y ago
I'm racking my brain to think of a way to make a government "listen." Nope, can't think of any.

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