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by jordanb 9y ago
Alta Vista allowed LexisNexis style querying against the web. It was magical. I only reluctantly switched off of that search engine after they quit indexing the web and their database became uselessly stale. I always hoped that Google would
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by jordanb 9y ago
What you see with the collapse of these companies is more concentration of market power, not less.
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by jordanb 9y ago
I think one could make the case that the Republicans are not corrupt because what you get when you elect them is exactly what it says on the tin. Their arguments may be lies, but their loyalties are not hidden. It's corruption when y
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by jordanb 9y ago
Interestingly this was the premise behind Brownback's tax plan in Kansas: Small businesses were being held back by their tax burden. They wanted to invest more capital in their businesses, to scale up and hire more people. They had unt
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by jordanb 9y ago
Have you seen Adam Curtis' Hypernormalization[0]? The word "hypornormalization" was created by a soviet thinker to describe the soviet world in the 1980s: Nobody really believed in Communism anymore and everyone could tell ev
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by jordanb 9y ago
To be clear that comment is a joke. It was made in 2003, the XFL collapsed in 2001. Amazon was already a success in 2003.
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by jordanb 9y ago
If you're an international student, a physical presence in the US is one of the things you're buying with your grad school tuition. Conversely American grad school attendees are mostly career switchers who already have an establis
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by jordanb 9y ago
> And yet, 2017 looks a lot different than 1917. Yeah inequality is worse in 2017 than it was in 1917. http://peakwatch.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452403c69e20120a57377...
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by jordanb 9y ago
http://s3.amazonaws.com/CHINFO/USS+Fitzgerald+and+USS+John+S... The McCain entered the TSS at 20 knots and varied between 20 and 18 knots until the steering problem began. The OOD ordered the vessel slowed to 5 knots b
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by jordanb 9y ago
The real cause of the collision was poor seamanship and failure to follow the COLREGS on the part of the bridge crew of the destroyer. Most specifically they were seriously in violation of Rule 6: the Safe Speed Rule http://nav
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by jordanb 9y ago
> In Sweden this is effectively the only way you can make the "stack ranking": you move a bunch of workers to a special branch or factory. Stack-ranking has been horrible every place it's been tried so I'm not really
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by jordanb 9y ago
As I said above shipping is always high to islands. You can say the same thing (small business hurt by shipping) in Bermuda or Tahiti or Antigua, in all these cases the cost of shipping has nothing to do with the Jones Act. If Jones Act shi
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by jordanb 9y ago
There was no zoning at all in the United States when this occurred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_real_estate_bubble_of_... """ As a result of these factors, prices for land in the Chicago Loop r
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by jordanb 9y ago
Why don't foreign shippers set up a route from Florida to the Bahamas to Puerto Rico? This would be perfectly legal under the Jones Act. Or alternately Florida - BVI - PR. If they can't make that work because of the slight additio
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by jordanb 9y ago
Some people from PR who argue against the Jones Act claim that ships in the trans-Atlantic trade used to call on PR on their way to Florida. But that was back in the age of sail and coal-fired steam when ships sailed south to catch the trad
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by jordanb 9y ago
El Faro wasn't unseaworthy because it was old. There are plenty of old seaworthy vessels at sea today and there are also newer coffin ships. In fact, flags of convenience and competition between international Classification societies h
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by jordanb 9y ago
Paint is surprisingly heavy.
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by jordanb 9y ago
I'd like to see his data on that. I find it difficult to believe that there are twice as many programmers now than there were in 2012. At least, not in the United States.
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by jordanb 9y ago
> It wants to own the app store for enterprise services. For this to work the way an app store works they would have to be able to control access by service providers to their tenants. Like, if you're a lawyer and you want to meet w
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by jordanb 9y ago
This is old but to be clear the Greek heroes were not golden age men. The golden age occurred before the heroic age and it was explicitly pre-agriculture: > [Men] lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and gri
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by jordanb 9y ago
There's a false dichotomy between hyperglobalization and complete autarky. Tariffs were common US policy when they served the interests of the elite. They only became ideologically unthinkable when they might have been used to protect
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by jordanb 9y ago
> An interesting fact about Oligopolies is that they often degrade into very low margin businesses If the oligopoly fails, then the result will be low-margin businesses for everyone due to market forces. If an oligopoly is successful the
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by jordanb 9y ago
Cellphone bills only became deflationary after the government blocked the T-Mobile-At&t merger. With this merger, and a new administration, they stand to "correct that mistake" and you can bet that cellphone bills will return
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by jordanb 9y ago
Of course those other parties, at your closing, bear no risk themselves if you sign (regardless the contents of the papers) and stand to lose their commission if you don't.
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by jordanb 9y ago
> it's clear that agriculture and husbandry were historically more desirable over pure hunting and gathering, even in warmer regions like Egypt. It's clear that agricultural societies were more fit than hunter-gatherer socie
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by jordanb 9y ago
Wow yeah now it all makes sense actually. Spain's actions in all of this seemed completely bizarre to me. They could have diffused the situation so easily. They did the one thing that makes it all worse. But yeah, once you realize that
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by jordanb 9y ago
Yeah, Spain was looking like the good guys at first: rich Catalonia wants to keep all their tax money and not help anybody else. Nobody was supporting Catalonia and their illegal vote was completely irrelevant and wouldn't have been ho
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by jordanb 9y ago
That's because the story is bogus. Weighing products for QA (to make sure there wasn't underfilling) is extremely common. It's called "checkweighing" and you can buy COTS scales to do exactly that. https:/&#x2
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by jordanb 9y ago
Yeah lots of variants of it too. I've heard it told in terms of nationalities too "In nation X they built a multi-million dollar sensor, in nation Y they just used a fan." In that format it's similar to the NASA space pe
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by jordanb 9y ago
I'm saying that's the only conceivable scenario in which the UK would agree to "reunion" with the USA.

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