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by dpatru 16y ago
I think it's Jim Collins's book Good to Great that says that managers that perform at a high level for a long time are recognizable by the fact that they remain modest while their business units make great results.
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The whole point of a jury is that it is a check on government power. Before a person can be convicted of a serious crime, a jury of his peers, not just the government, must convict him. Your hypothetical of a jury maliciously convicting eve
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by dpatru 16y ago
The right to a jury trial in criminal cases is only available for serious offenses (possibility of six months in jail.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_jury_in_the_United_Sta...
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by dpatru 16y ago
To repeat: jury nullification is a check on state power. It prevents the state from convicting. A lot of US criminal procedure law functions the same way: it prevents conviction. The presumption of innocence, the burden of proof, the right
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Once a person can reproduce, that person should be able to live independently and support himself/herself. The current educational system keeps fifteen-year-old men and women couped up together in a "school" and treats them as children, giv
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by dpatru 16y ago
Unions are based on the idea that fungible "workers" need to unite against "management" to avoid being replaced with workers who will accept lower compensation. The primary interest of unions is to preserve for their members jobs that pay a
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Python Types and Objects(cafepy.com)
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Public schools could be improved if, instead of operating like prisons, they operated like recipients of public housing vouchers. Right now most public schools, especially the worst, are very similar to prisons. Students, like prisoners, ha
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IP disputes are drain on innovation in the sense of opportunity cost. When Google spends money on lawyers, it can't spend that money on engineers. Also, patent attorneys are smart people who, instead of being employed to create new technol
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by dpatru 16y ago
According to what I've seen and read, there is no special talent to knowing what another side is thinking. It's just good listening, not assuming anything, and asking lots of questions. People who don't do these things will rely on guessing
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Notes on Trimble's Writing with Style(uts.cc.utexas.edu)
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If this is not true about other news bureaus, this says a lot about Al Jazeera.
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One of the first cases in a law school tort class is Katko v Briney ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney ). Briney was a farmer fed up with a break-ins of an abandoned house that he owned. He set up a shotgun to shoot at an intrud
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Mauritius: A Glimmer of African Freedom(mises.org)
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RIP Jack LeLanne(rosstraining.com)
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Reply to Krugman on Austrian Business-Cycle Theory - Robert P. Murphy(mises.org)
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by dpatru 16y ago
I've seen it here before, but yesterday I happened to stumble across it again, learned something new, and figured maybe other people on HN would benefit from it too.
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Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow(stackoverflow.com)
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The article "Git from the bottom up" has also helped me understand git. http://www.newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up.ht...
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"What has government done to our money" by Murray Rothbard It's available free in pdf and audio from mises.org. http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie...
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Solving the energy crisis with affordable, renewable clean fuel(jouleunlimited.com)
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A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand - The Globe and Mail(theglobeandmail.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
Email for me is something to be processed. If it doesn't need my attention and response, I try to filter it so it doesn't reach my inbox. In contrast, my facebook stream is a diverse collection of stuff from people I care about that may i
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Beyond the RDBMS(philip.greenspun.com)
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Eating Advice From the China Study(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Pyke - Python Logic Programming(pyke.sourceforge.net)
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> I would especially argue against the idea that leisure is a virtue amongst the poor. . . Leisure may not be good for the poor (because it leads to depression and social alienation) but it is valued by the poor. Just like an alcoho
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The choice that welfare allows is: welfare (much leisure with little money) versus work (little leisure with X money), where X depends on your productivity. For people with little productivity, welfare looks very attractive.
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In societies without a welfare government, non-working poor people have to beg. In other words, they still work in the sense of trading their time for money. The poor do not have the option to live in idleness (like the rich do.)
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There are two ways not to be poor: either you're productive yourself or you are supported by someone who is productive. If you are not productive, it's because you don't want to be or because you can't. You may not want to be productive if

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