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by jljljl 13y ago
>>> I know this sucks. Libraries have been an invaluable part of human history, propagating our culture and knowledge over centuries. Public Libraries also provide free/subsidized access to that culture and knowledge, which th
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I know, i was just building on what you said :)
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Deconstructing arguments is difficult, and fact-checking is incredibly time consuming with often little immediately benefit (besides the smug sensation of knowing more that it often provides). This is why popularizers and journalists have a
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Spawning conversations on the basis of poor or misleading evidence is not a worthwhile endeavor. While nothing should be taken as sacrosanct, one needs to have solid evidence or a reasonable argument before they start prodding and examini
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This bothered me more than anything else in the response. Just because your book is popular does not mean it is not misleading.
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What is the appropriate cost for a health insurance marketplace that needs to support 33 states, with the security and privacy requirements such a federal system entails, and with the need to support millions of customers as soon as it open
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How much should it cost to build? This isn't just something a few freelancers can hack together over a weekend. A lot of people are complaining about the cost, even at the $60M-$100M, but I haven't seen anyone explain what costs w
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Reread the article, this is complete nonsense. The $634M number is 6 years of contracts, starting in 2008 (Obamacare was signed into law on March 23, 2010), which doesn't align with his claim that CGI Federal won the contract in 2011.
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This seems a little confusing to me. I'm using the site linked in one of the previous comments: http://usaspending.gov/explore?tab=By+Prime+Awardee&fiscal_y... This shows the $634M headline number as the amount of
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by jljljl 13y ago
>> Move closer to work – a short commute is worth more than a big house Ah yes, a simple thing I can accomplish today!
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The New Normal? Slower R&D Spending(macroblog.typepad.com)
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SecondMarket goes all in on Bitcoin(pandodaily.com)
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That seems pretty big doesn't it? Going from "we are doing this" to "we are going to release some of these to early adopters"?
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It's part of it, but Myst's allure was always more than pure puzzle solving. There were plenty of adventure/puzzle games before Myst, but it was the open world, exploratory nature of Myst that was its unique appeal.
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I came to link the exact study you provided. Here's the executive summary from the CEPR paper: "The report reviews evidence on eleven possible adjustments to minimum-wage increases that may help to explain why the measured employ
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I will admit I'm not well versed in how OpSec works. Are there no OpSec policies for what happens if something accidentally leaks? Are there no policies for what happens if a Top Secret file makes it to someone with the wrong clearance
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And even if there are safeguards in place to prevent this from happening (and I'm sure there are) with 99.99999repeating% accuracy, you still want something in place to mitigate or control risk if the safeguards fail. Which is no doubt
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Any smart information sharing agreement would cover contingencies like this. Not because they know it _will_ happen, but because they know it _might_ happen. Not making a statement on the information sharing, just pointing out that the exis
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There's a number of blogs and writers who take the nutritional supplement manufacturers to task for their outrageous claims. Furthermore, saying "They can get away with this because everyone else gets away with this" is kinda
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Microbrewers compete on taste, or on producing varieties of beer that are not reduced-calorie pilsners. I have not seen a solid explanation of how Soylent is distinct from Ensure. Rhinehart claims: "No MRP has been designed to be a sus
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>>> "This is why BuzzFeed has a major role to play in the coming years producing great journalism and compelling entertainment[...] There is a huge opportunity to be the leading news source for the social, mobile world."
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Sure, but this is true for any product, and has nothing to do with it being mathematically impossible to go bankrupt on Humble Bundle. If you haven't covered your fixed/dev costs, and if you misjudge the market quantity demanded a
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by jljljl 13y ago
If anyone wants data on whether Humble Bundle is more or less successful, a list of their sales and the amount raised is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_bundle#List_of_games_off...
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True, I suppose that once they have recouped their fixed costs and development/production costs, this would be the case. So HB a good method for generating demand/revenue once you've crossed that point, but not so before.
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>>> No, because its mathematically impossible for the participants to be driven into bankruptcy. ...Ok, I'll bite, why is it mathematically impossible?
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For those who have not heard it, the Tig Notaro special is the one covered extensively by NPR and various news outlets, after Louis CK declared it one of the "truly great, masterful standup sets". The set famously opens with her r
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>>> Higher interchange fees would necessarily "end up resulting in higher costs for consumers" only if the interest rates didn't also decrease. Businesses do not pass on interchange fees directly to the customer. It
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MSFT certainly didn't help. For example, a lot of netbooks were packaged with Windows 7 Starter, a seriously limited version of Windows. I'm skeptical that the hardware couldn't handle full Windows (because Starter also provi
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Thats their share of the total car market. Given that their portfolio only consists of one model, it's probably better to look at their specific segment: Luxury and Sports. In that segment, they had a 12% market share YTD.
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It was so, so easy to move on from Reader, which is why I think the shutdown was not such a big deal. Google gave months of advance warning, and made it easy to export your feeds and data in a cross platform, open format. The fact that thei

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