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by hugh3 15y ago
They're the government. They have something better than equity: they automatically take a seventeen percent share of every profit made by every company in Chile... not to mention personal income tax on every employee's salary. Just one medi
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's a great move by the administrators of the scheme. Not because hiring locals is a problem (though it very well may be depending on what skillset you need and the language barrier) but because the bother of administrating such a scheme
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd be very interested in reading regular, photograph-rich updates on how it's going. Either from you, or from any other of the startups.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Is this "petitions" feature on whitehouse.gov brand new? I've heard of a couple of petitions today, and never before. I see right now that there are only 32 petitions there, and every one of them is either a neutral or leftish cause. The on
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by hugh3 15y ago
Anyone who doesn't have extensive experience with both is poorly qualified to comment, I think. There are great things and lousy things about the US healthcare system. In terms of the people and the facilities, nothing is better. But the fi
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by hugh3 15y ago
The US is still the leading destination for wealthy medical tourists. If you want the best medical treatment and money is no object, you'll almost certainly get better treatment in the US than in your home country.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Is the Moon that interesting?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't want this to turn into a huge thread listing all current NASA missions, but I just want to put in a word for Kepler, which to me could be easily the most important NASA mission going on at the moment. In 1994 we knew of zero plane
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sounds like a lot just for the Moon. The whole Juno mission to Jupiter is currently budgeted at a mere $371.1 million. (Or for $500 million, we could give a loan guarantee to Solyndra and watch it go bankrupt!)
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by hugh3 15y ago
Newtonian gravitation: it approximately works, bitches!
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by hugh3 15y ago
At this point I'm 99.9% certain that we're looking at some kind of experimental error, but being unfamiliar with the details I'm not about to start speculating on particular things that might be wrong. Any possible error that I could thin
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by hugh3 15y ago
Usually I hate people who comment only with "I stopped reading at...", but in this particular case I'll make an exception. For myself. I stopped reading at: "As far as I know, no book on the history of physics mentions Tesla" which is a s
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by hugh3 15y ago
You do realize that proving "Einstein was wrong" is a favourite activity of the many physics cranks who hang around sending letters to physics departments year in year out? And that of all the thousands of folks who have claimed to have a
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by hugh3 15y ago
While I share your concern that this is poor protection of privacy, are you really sufficiently concerned that someone is desperately interested in the location of your car to bother to put yourself to any inconvenience?
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is only in Australia, where all cars have (iirc) front and back plates.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, the vast majority of cases are caused by failure to use (sufficient) contraception by unmarried couples, which is a bad lifestyle decision. And even for divorce the vast majority of cases are caused by marrying an inappropriate person
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by hugh3 15y ago
Is that true, or just oft-repeated political rhetoric? (Telling the middle class that they're being ripped off is, of course, a time-honoured political ploy.) I'm sitting in the middle of the income curve right now, and it looks fine around
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by hugh3 15y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I was having recently with some engaged friends of mine, who are in their early 30s and were worried about whether they were really financially ready to have children yet. Of course they were extremely midd
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed, the poverty line is chosen arbitrarily so that... well, roughly one sixth of the population get to be "poor" at all times. Any less than that, and people who make their living off providing free stuff to the "poor" will get annoyed.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Ah, I see. Sorry, the ambiguous "it" made me think "it" was hipmunk. Somehow.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Good to hear. You also have one killer competitive advantage: an adorable logo.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Unions are happy to take anyone's money. In fact they'd rather represent happy workers rather than unhappy workers -- happy workers pay their dues and don't cause any trouble. I know from experience that unions are very good at forcing re
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by hugh3 15y ago
What do you mean by "integrates it into their search results"? Hipmunk's killer feature is the ability to easily visualize the flight in terms of the time you leave, the time you arrive and the time spent at various intermediate locations.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, now you have! It's a much simpler problem to solve first.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Once you've done your search, click on the little calendar icon, and it gives you a lot of information about prices on other days.
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by hugh3 15y ago
That really is good. Hipmunk is still better if you know what days you want to fly, but this is great if you haven't yet decided precisely when, or precisely where, you want to go. A pity it only works within the US so far, but I'm sure the
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by hugh3 15y ago
"It's ironic that Ikea looks on the U.S. and Danville the way that most people in the U.S. look at Mexico," Not really. With Ikea furniture being so cheap, so heavy, and so apparently labor non-intensive (only three hundred employees at t
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm rather skeptical of any "workers at factory are mistreated, unhappy, et cetera" story that just happens to coincide with an attempt by a big-labor union to unionize said factory. Where did this story come from? Why are we reading abou
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by hugh3 15y ago
The inflation rate has huge error bars, at least in terms of how official inflation compares to "real" inflation. So comparing one "inflation adjusted" number to another from 43 years ago and getting concerned over a difference of a mere co
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by hugh3 15y ago
A presentation is someone telling a story. it's an emotionel Endeavour, not a presentation of facts. if it was you could just write a report or send out a memo. As a presenter you need to bear this in mind. Not always. For instance, a sci

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