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by fnid 17y ago
Seems then that a public option would be good for health because the insurer of the public would want to reduce costs over the life of the member. If a lot of the costs are due to diseases that could have been prevented cheaply earlier in
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by fnid 17y ago
The link in this article to "95% of businesses fail" points to an article titled, "95% of online businesses fail" and he disputes it with statistics for ALL businesses. Be honest. If you start your article with a lie, why should I believe
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by fnid 17y ago
It's not saving that is for suckers, it's savings accounts. This is link bait. You have to get to the second page to find out he recommends investing in the stock market when savings accounts and stocks are two entirely different things an
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by fnid 17y ago
I've only had the flu one time in my entire life and it was the same as the only year I got vaccinated. I haven't had a flu vaccine since and I haven't gotten the flu since. Edit: Not saying I don't believe in vaccines in general. But I'm
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by fnid 17y ago
I'm kind of shocked that you are using SQLite to power this site. I suppose it'd be easy to move to something better, but still...
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by fnid 17y ago
if it was done right and thoughtfully and thoroughly These really sound like a "No True Scotsman" arguments. I, and I'm sure several others here, have completed lots of different systems in less than 5 or 6 months. If you use the righ
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by fnid 17y ago
I googled it and i didn't see calacanis's post anywhere in the first ten on any major search engine.
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by fnid 17y ago
France higher on the list than Russia?
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Justice Department Will Not Prosecute Medical Marijuana Use(tech.mit.edu)
21 points by fnid 17y ago|1 comments
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404 error on that link...
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by fnid 17y ago
I would say Questions are the greatest accomplishments of philosophy. There are many questions out there, the meaning of life, where we came from, what happens when we die. These are philosophical questions in origin. Philosophy is the b
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by fnid 17y ago
I suspect you knew this, but many religions suggest we actually are living on the back of a gigantic turtle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_and_tortoises_in_popula...
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Faith and Belief: Richard Dawkins evolves his arguments(latimes.com)
12 points by fnid 17y ago|60 comments
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by fnid 17y ago
And the "compromise" part hits their Mac commercial as well.
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Do you know how much money they are making off the API and App? How do you know it isn't a genius decision?
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by fnid 17y ago
A very high percentage of kids tend to revolt against parents by choosing paths in life that are the opposite of theirs. I don't see how what you are saying there is at all reasonable. These are kids. They aren't adults and haven't had th
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by fnid 17y ago
I'm still not convinced. If it's 90% heritable, then the average of the shortest population needs only be 5' tall. That's pretty short. Nutrition could account for the rest. Yes, nutrition is environmental, but it doesn't change my origin
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by fnid 17y ago
People choose their behavior. You can be born with gifts and choose not to use them. I do not deny that practice makes perfect, but the amount practice benefits the individual is largely due to the genes that power them. All things being
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by fnid 17y ago
I suspect the parents and the children are taller. I don't see how two separate populations of people evolving different physical traits over time is evidence that that height is not inherited. Your quote says, "Presently differ." Three
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by fnid 17y ago
here in lies the problem. Being good doesn't make money. Making no money means you have no power. Power gives the advantage to make more money and more power and the good get squashed.
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by fnid 17y ago
everything is heritable, including that which controls our responses to nurture. Everything.
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by fnid 17y ago
should both go one sale by the middle of 2010 Is anyone else noticing a lot more typos in articles and blogs lately? Can these respected publications not afford copy editing anymore? The typo above is obvious and in the first sentence
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by fnid 17y ago
Evil maid is modifying the boot record with a hook to their own code. If the boot record where this function is located is hashed and verified at the next boot, couldn't truecrypt alert the user to the compromise?
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by fnid 17y ago
That's basically what is happening. Wait until the inflation kicks in. See Argentina as an example: http://academic.reed.edu/economics/course_pages/201_f06/Case...
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by fnid 17y ago
The problem with this line of thinking is that games have rules. If people at the top, the bankers, the politicians, et al break the rules, the govt bails them out. If we break the rules, we go to jail. It's like getting points by enter
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by fnid 17y ago
Part of the problem with ORMs isn't the ORMs, it's the programmers of database systems who don't understand relational models. They understand OO models so they need something to do the conversion for them. ORMs make programming easier, bu
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by fnid 17y ago
I didn't say they purposely weren't removing apps to promote growth. I'm saying they aren't doing other things to avoid inhibiting growth. Things like a review process, monitoring, etc.
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More evidence that it's all about marketing.
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I'm not sure it's valid to say Facebook can't do anything. They did take infected apps down. That's one thing. They could have an approval and monitoring process to protect their users. People blame Microsoft all the time for viruses and
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by fnid 17y ago
I went to my aunt's house once and she was distraught because there was a pop up on her screen that said she had a virus and needed to click here to clean her computer. I said, "Don't click that, it's fake." And she looked at me shocked. I

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