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by jfornear 17y ago
There is definitely money to be made from empowering journalists. But the underlying problem has to be solved on their end first, and all they need is pen and paper. We can build things like Wordpress VIP, but ultimately it's up to CNN to p
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by jfornear 17y ago
Sounds like an aggregator/CMS hybrid, a purely technological solution to the problem. EveryBlock does something similar ( http://everyblock.com ).
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by jfornear 17y ago
Aside from crawlers, aggregators, CMSs, etc., I don't see how a small team of programmers without any kind of editorial insight can really do anything innovative for journalism. The real problem lies in the content, not the distribution cha
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by jfornear 17y ago
We already have Medicaid and Medicare. I've read so much about their role in the rising costs of health care that I wouldn't even know where to start. I like Mankiw's thoughts on the public option: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/06/wh
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by jfornear 17y ago
I actually take this back. Obama uses this wording as well, because he is trying to bring down the costs of health care , too. Regulating the insurance industry effects the prices of health care (sometimes negatively). I wish I could expla
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by jfornear 17y ago
My dad's income does have something to do with it because I didn't notice anything change for us financially despite all that he had to go through. Ergo, it couldn't have been that much. I know most doctors don't care how much you make when
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by jfornear 17y ago
Of course our Congressmen/women aren't going to be performing medical procedures on us (thank God, ha). You know what I meant. I'll edit it for you though. :) And again, I don't believe you can blame private insurers for that. The governmen
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by jfornear 17y ago
I would disagree (and others share this view) that the economic collapse was the result of unregulated markets. It was the result of bad regulation (e.g., the CRA of '95 caused the amount of mortgages issued that were subprime to jump from
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by jfornear 17y ago
I don't know, but it couldn't have been much since my dad makes less than $50k a year. In the Canadian example, you need to figure in taxes.
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by jfornear 17y ago
We already have Medicaid. http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/06/whats-point-of-public...
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by jfornear 17y ago
I've heard Rep. Jan Schakowsky say some things about wanting to destroy the private health insurance industry straight up. Her supporters erupted into a wild applause, too. Disturbs the hell out of me.
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by jfornear 17y ago
To counter your Texas anecdote... I live in Texas, and my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic melanoma (extremely low survival rate). The cancer doctors we have in Dallas are some of the best in the world. My dad had insurance and it
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by jfornear 17y ago
You're right that there is a philosophical difference, but opponents of Obama's plan are being represented unfairly by those who frame the "debate" in the way in which you just did. All anecdotal arguments aside, the premise that more gover
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by jfornear 17y ago
Do you go to SMU? I haven't met anyone there that frequents HN
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by jfornear 17y ago
Like Mystalic said above, Twitter is purposely trying to get away from the status updates.
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by jfornear 17y ago
I do the same. I read easier books that don't require in-depth understanding on the iPhone Kindle app, and I go ahead and buy books that I know I'm going to have to look back to again and again.
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by jfornear 17y ago
I disagree. I think it really comes down to motivation. Everyone knows you have to practice and practice to get good at anything. It's the motivation to practice that is the hard part. It's easier to stay motivated when you set goals that y
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by jfornear 17y ago
I agree. Just take a look at every Twitter-related TC post up until this debacle. The first few commenters are always complaining about the excessive reporting on Twitter. Now randoms are coming out of the woodwork to thrash TC over this. E
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by jfornear 17y ago
I've read that the ability to discriminate between "vivid red" and "vivid green" is actually very important for parts of the US military... I'm not really sure why though. Maybe for airborne jump signals?
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by jfornear 17y ago
I think technology is getting too much credit for this uprising
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by jfornear 17y ago
I don't feel sympathy for this self-inflicted situation at all. I found the Sims 3 to be way too easy. They could have easily found a job in the newspaper (can basically just sign up for one), showered daily at the local gym (free), and mad
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by jfornear 17y ago
I think it's offensive, but not enough to get rejected. Couldn't they have just asked you to remove that page of the comic or something instead of rejecting your entire app?
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by jfornear 17y ago
2nd igrigorik http://www.igvita.com/
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by jfornear 17y ago
do you not have a checkbox on your sign up form that asks if your customers would like to receive updates? something like that would have skirted this argument altogether. this is an example of why marketing needs to be implemented into the
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by jfornear 17y ago
Way to commit the fallacy of composition.
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by jfornear 17y ago
Comments like this should not be condoned on HN...
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by jfornear 18y ago
Nope. I don't think pg cares about generating any kind of financial gain from HN aside from leads to successful YC companies.
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by jfornear 18y ago
I doubt that model would hold considering the fact that ad-blockers are too cheap to subscribe to a service like that, but why not just pay the magazine a little more in subscription fees? The aura of anti-advertising among the tech crowd i
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by jfornear 18y ago
What? I find their logic/reason driven analysis refreshing when it comes to emotional topics such as war.
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by jfornear 18y ago
Your characterization of online social interaction is plain wrong. You can't assume everyone else approaches Twitter or Facebook the same way you might. People learn from each other online, argue with each other, start relationships, start

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