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Nutrients for better thinking (google tech talk)(youtube.com)
2 points by dpatru 17y ago|1 comments
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Here's what I got out of the video: _Principles_ 1. Stress hurts problem solving. So minimize stress. Best state is to be a little happy. 2. Creativity is the ability to notice faint connections/associations. It helps to be calm and to damp
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Techniques to help you think better (google tech talk)(youtube.com)
4 points by dpatru 17y ago|1 comments
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A simple way to do this would be to limit some of the advantages of a corporation, which is itself a state-created entity. I've no problem with government limiting the freedom of its own creation which enjoys unlimited life, limited liabili
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If gold were used as money, money would be like any other good. Anybody could produce their own coins by marking on them their brand and their content of gold. The value of coins would depend on people's ability to verify their content or t
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by dpatru 17y ago
Detecting an unnatural decrease in the value of currency is not as simple as tracking prices and standard of living. You need to track productivity too. Normally, in an economy that is growing in productivity, your purchasing power should b
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by dpatru 17y ago
The reason banks can lend money at low interest even when nobody is saving is because they can create new money. A hike in interest rates means a reduction in the production of new money. If you define inflation as the increase of the money
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by dpatru 17y ago
While it's possible for gold to fluctuate in value, it's not as easy or common to change the value of gold as it is to manipulate the value of fiat currency. The whole point of a gold-standard is to make money a more durable store of value.
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by dpatru 17y ago
The point of gold-backed currency is to prevent the government from devaluing currency without the people's knowledge. When government does devalue currency by refusing to redeem, at least the people know it. There is a continuum of choices
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This illustrates why government should not be trusted with the control of money. What N. Korea is doing is massive theft, but so is the issuing of any fiat currency. The Federal Reserve is just a better thief than N. Korea because it steals
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by dpatru 17y ago
I think there's a fundamental misalignment of interests in the news business between 1) readers who want high-quality, unbiased reporting, 2) advertisers who want to sell something to the readers and are thus biased, and 3) the news compani
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by dpatru 17y ago
A Ron Paul presidency would have economically hurt people who make money by relying on the government to enforce anti-market policies. For example, the military spends a lot of money maintaining troops throughout the world. If troop levels
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by dpatru 17y ago
To test whether reducing corporate income taxes will spur economic growth and reduce government debt, just apply a thought experiment at the extremes: compare what would happen if the income tax were 100% with 0%. At 100% income tax, corpor
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by dpatru 17y ago
> Some commentators, including the former chancellor Nigel Lawson and the environmental campaigner and Guardian writer George Monbiot, have called on Jones to resign but Pachauri [chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang
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by dpatru 17y ago
The existence of reliable datasets does not contradict the argument that unreliable data should not be used. The fact that there does not seem to be an overwhelming call among the climate-science community to purge themselves of unreliable
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Help wanted: no private sector experience required(blog.american.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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Google tech-talk by the author at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpBAg4Ndi9w&feature=sub
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Search User Interfaces - free book(searchuserinterfaces.com)
7 points by dpatru 17y ago|1 comments
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Sparklines(edwardtufte.com)
4 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Some possible solutions: * some kind of congestion pricing * private routes (Could be roads, rail, tunnels, etc. Charge for access.) * private vehicles (Could use existing routes or new routes.) * reduce traffic (by increasing costs, reduci
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by dpatru 17y ago
Why is this article garbage? It points out a problem that millions have, some proposed solutions, and invites entrepreneurs to solve it.
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by dpatru 17y ago
Seliger cites a study showing that GRE scores for education graduate school students are 27 out of 28 disciplines. The only discipline with worse scores is public administration.
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by dpatru 17y ago
The easiest way would be to require a small payment to submit a "bid". Non-serious sellers won't pay.
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by dpatru 17y ago
Myopia is one of the characteristics of bright but late-talking children that Thomas Sowell talks about In his book, "The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late" ( http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Syndrome-Bright-Children-Talk... ).
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by dpatru 17y ago
Bill Mollison advocates intelligent farming or, as Larry Wall, the designer of Perl, would say, farming that emphasizes the three virtures of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris. The following quotes illustrate this. From Wikiped
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Sustainable farming: interview with Bill Mollison(motherearthnews.com)
2 points by dpatru 17y ago|1 comments
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To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996)(cs.virginia.edu)
6 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Reminds me of a passage from Philip Greenspun's article, How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates, http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/ : When I arrived at MIT as a first-year graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, I asked
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How Professional Writers Write(calnewport.com)
94 points by dpatru 17y ago|35 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Seems like this might be an anti-trust issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act

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