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by dpatru 16y ago
Of course federal funding distorts science. How could it not? It's naive to think otherwise. Politics pervades all the other areas of government spending. Are you saying that scientists and their funders are somehow superior to everyone els
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Micheal Crichton on climate change(youtube.com)
3 points by dpatru 16y ago|1 comments
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Please critique my new app: reminderer.net
1 points by dpatru 16y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
You can get rich by following his advice to place a few big, good bets. Also, many of us would be happy to grow a 5 to 6-figure net worth into a 7 to 8 figure net worth. Munger's advice may seem like common sense, but common sense is not so
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by dpatru 16y ago
Investment, defined as current production used (saved and invested) for future growth, is critical to growth. Since the federal reserve has gotten control of the dollar, the dollar has been steadily dropping in value. This discourages savin
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by dpatru 16y ago
Good salespeople will create trust by deliberately making promises and then keeping them. So for example, if a client requests some information, the salesperson will promise to send it by a certain time, say in ten minutes, and then send it
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Natural Defenses in Preventing and Treating Cancer(youtube.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
> Under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, employers have a legal obligation to prove they are taking all reasonable practical measures to protect staff from inappropriate material. Companies and individual executives can also fac
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by dpatru 17y ago
I don't have a lot of sympathy for the argument that the video was released without context that would justify the American military action. If the American military had wanted context, they should have released the video themselves with ad
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by dpatru 17y ago
Government has been defined as a group of people that claim the exclusive right to initiate force against others in a particular area. Government and competition don't go together.
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by dpatru 17y ago
This American Life had a program on this last weekend: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/i...
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by dpatru 17y ago
I think schools are more about providing jobs to school employees and babysitting (keeping kids safely out of the way) than they are about education.
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by dpatru 17y ago
School choice is rejected because the people who have the most to lose from it, public school employees, are very organized and those who stand to gain, parents, are not organized.
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by dpatru 17y ago
Perhaps Apple products represent the progress of innovation. Since Henry Ford was young, the kids tinkered with gas engines and buggies. Now, automobiles are a mature technology and largely black boxes. Consumer electronics have gone the sa
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How Costco Primes Us To Spend More Money... | The Greenest Dollar(thegreenestdollar.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Why does NYC need a custom payroll system? Government agencies are supposed to be staffed by employees who can be trusted by the public not to abuse sensitive personal information such as is contained in tax returns. Yet, these same employe
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Security for GWT Applications(groups.google.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Upvoted for the witty analogies.
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by dpatru 17y ago
from an article "The American Gulag" at http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo79.html Lincoln certainly did unconstitutionally suspend habeas corpus. But the tens of thousands of Northern citizens who were imprisoned without due p
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by dpatru 17y ago
Look up "peter schiff was right" and "peter schiff mortgage bankers speech" on youtube. At the time when "credible" people were predicting no recession and prosperity in perpetuity, Schiff was a contrarian voice predicting recession and a f
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by dpatru 17y ago
As Peter Schiff has noted, if US dollar tumbles, holders of the dollar will be hurt, but the US itself will be wiped out. The situation is analogous to a stock market bubble. Holders of stocks with inflated values are hurt when the stocks l
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by dpatru 17y ago
So if I'm ever in an ironman race, I shouldn't follow another cyclist too closely...
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Introduction to Category Theory(cs.nott.ac.uk)
9 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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Parrot AR.Drone: Coolest iPhone accessory ever? [video](wimp.com)
2 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
No, slavery would be forcing someone to work for you (rather like what the government does when it forces people to pay an income tax.) Contracting with someone for a percentage of their income is rather like investing in their startup wi
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Harmony: procedural drawing tool in canvas(mrdoob.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Turning the perspective around, minimum-wage laws can be seen as having the purpose of preventing low skilled people from learning on the job. One of the best ways to learn is take a job is the field you want to learn in. You get paid to le
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by dpatru 17y ago
A large part of the value that first and secondary schools provide is supervision. Academic subjects can be learned by self-study with the aid of learning materials and the occasional tutor. But supervision still requires a real person and
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by dpatru 17y ago
That's an interesting theory. When can failure to respond to mail subject a person to legal penalty?
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by dpatru 17y ago
Your statement, "by spending $1 to provide a service to a group of people, you increase the size of the economy, and consequently the tax base in that area, by more than $1," even if it were true, is too broad: it applies to services which

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