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Beauty and Music 09/01/2011(dilbert.com)
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Python Module of the Week(doughellmann.com)
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It's Lonely (And Pricey) At The Top – Why I aspire to be #3.(davidbullock.com)
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Third-World Squat(t-nation.com)
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I just listened to a talk[1] by Ori Brafman in which he mentions that one of the most important factors in professional collaboration and friendship is physical closeness. MIT dorm students were twice as likely to be best friends with their
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A regular Stanford student can expect to spend about $50,000 a year [1] or about $200,000 for a four-year degree. In four years, I believe that there will be at least one company that will offer trustworthy certification for a lot less, l
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> you're paying for the grade & the transcript, not the content. How much is the grading and transcript worth? How much does it cost? I think there's a great opportunity for a startup to just focus on offering transcripts. The harde
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If a person asks you to help them rob a bank, and you provide them with transportation to the bank, you're going to be found guilty as an accessory and you'll be punished the same as the bank robber.[1] Here Cisco knew why China wanted its
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World’s third richest guy proposes higher taxes… for other people(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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From Wikipedia[1]: Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads". Without this clause, Congress would not have
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I don't want to subsidize mail for people in rural areas. If you do, feel free to donate for that cause. I can't think of a good reason to subsidize mail. If people live where mail delivery is expensive, they should have to bear the cost. T
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The misunderstanding of economics contributes to poverty. The Austrian economists tend to write about this. For example, the minimum wage essentially makes it illegal for very unskilled workers to work. This was dramatically illustrated whe
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You can take the idea of non-coercion and private property pretty far, without even considering the role of charity. See Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty(1) for ideas of how it might work. Also people are naturally motivated by more than commer
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It's hard to feel sorry for an organization that is going bankrupt even as they maintain a government-enforced monopoly. If business is really so bad, why doesn't the Postal Service allow private businesses to compete with it? If there's no
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It's not unreasonable from the taxpayers' perspective to require the Postal Service to fund its pension obligations as they are incurred. And this is also not unreasonable from the employees' perspective. When the US government runs out of
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Stephen Covey gives a useful framework: Do the intersection of your ability, the existing need, your interest, and the important. Ask yourself, "What can I do (ability) that other people value (need), that I like (interest) and that I feel
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Productivity Tools | David Seah(davidseah.com)
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You're not finishing projects because your projects are too big. Choose smaller projects. It's a lot faster to plan than it is to code. Before you start coding, plan. Try to figure out the Minimum Viable Product. If you want your project to
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One solution might be for Google to spin off its EU datacenter operations into a company incorporated outside of US jurisdiction. The Patriot Act would then no longer apply and Google would not be force to break EU law.
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You're assuming that government spending is helping. What if it's the problem? To illustrate, imagine a hypothetical country where 90% of the working population is employed by the government to enforce needless bureaucratic rules on the 10%
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Peter Schiff (1) points out that the downgrade reflects S&P's doubt that the US will pay its debts without devaluing its currency. Does any reasonable person believe that? 1- http://www.youtube.com/user/SchiffReport#p/a/u/0/SgNLTb58K
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I think a lot of trademark law could just as well be replaced with existing law against fraud and defamation. The fake Apple stores in China which sell inferior knock-offs are defrauding their customers who bought thinking they were buying
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The reason why America doesn't have more good jobs is that America is no longer the preferred place to run capital-intensive businesses that can employ large numbers of semi-skilled workers at high wages. For a large part of the 20th centu
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Ideas: Collection of videos and articles explaining various technologies. Make money with ads. Same as above except feature courses teaching internet stuff. You can make your own courses and/or feature other people's courses. For example, L
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How To Build A Read/Write JavaScript API (2007)(ajaxian.com)
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This is a good quote generally, but not when discussing child porn and the sexual exploitation of children. In this context, everybody is not guilty.
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Scribblemaps.com: Draw on maps(scribblemaps.com)
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He's not saying that small inventors couldn't profit. Just that their profits as a result of monopoly rights should be capped at a dollar amount. Patent rights are already capped in time: 20 years from the time of filing. After that, invent
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It always has been and it's still the case in America that what is not prohibited is permitted. The problem is that in the last 70 years, the number of prohibitions have greatly increased. Technically we're still free; practically, there ar
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One good habit of thought not mentioned in the article is thinking in analogies. Comparison and contrast seem to be fundamental brain operations. Smart people express themselves in analogies, especially parables/stories. Always be thinking,

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