jpadkins

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by jpadkins 13y ago
If I get a travel visa to England, I can get free cancer treatment?
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by jpadkins 13y ago
It might be a step, but the obvious first step is remove the laws that make employer based insurance so much more attractive. Specifically the huge tax advantage, and group insurance laws. The whole ACA is a really complicated partial fi
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by jpadkins 13y ago
can't give cash because of drugs. Addicts will spend money on meth instead of their kids shoes. If you have a better solution, fire away.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
stinky people aren't caused by lack of access to sanitation and hygiene resources in America. It's much more likely to be a personality or mental disorder.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Riot games is making over $100m/year off virtual goods. WoW never had tens of millions of subs. They peaked at 12m. They made over 100k in the first day of selling their first virtual good (the infamous star pony). Their next MMO is rumor
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by jpadkins 13y ago
I disagree to a bit. You need people who really believe that they are going to take down myspace (or friendster...) even if they are irrational. Was there any serious, rational reason why any engineer would believe facebook would grow lik
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by jpadkins 13y ago
what is inherently better about non-profit running a service? Functionally, the only difference is they can't pay dividends to shareholders. Non-profit's can (and do!) turn profits into executives bonus's or perks, or bloated organization
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Do corporations regulate the internet? or consumer electronics? The flaw in your logic is in the absence of government regulation the buyer, not the supplier is the primary regulator in the market. Consumers are more in control of cost/qual
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by jpadkins 13y ago
C# / .net runtime. Seriously, why not provide a migration path from Azure.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
demonstrably false. The major wall street banks have lobbied for arcane regulation for decades. See of all the inclusions at their request into the Dowd-Frank bill, or SarbOx, etc. The federal reserve act of 1913 was the a major step up in
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Using your logic, shouldn't access to knowledge and information (the internet) be a public service too? Shouldn't management have the imperative of increasing living conditions for the populace rather than generating capital apply to intern
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by jpadkins 14y ago
why?
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Not really. You start from the solution cells and work backwards. It might be easier than reviewing a functional programming language that does the same work. Think about all the accounting and financial decisions that is reviewed in excel.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
The author uses the term 'mono culture' but I think the better term might be 'network effect'. There are a lot of positive network effects of all these projects hosting on github.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
actually, wouldn't the cost be the marginal cost to pull gold out the earth? I thought that was around $500/oz.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Most likely falls into Fair Use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Agreed, but isn't international trade economics the study of economics over multiple currencies?
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by jpadkins 14y ago
inflation vs. deflation: I have three points for your consideration 1) High tech sector has been experiencing massive deflation for decades and is thriving. Why? Is deflation really that bad when it comes from productivity? We know defla
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by jpadkins 14y ago
isn't recorded history only 150 years? How long have we had accurate thermometers with reliable, consistent recordings?
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Ah. Thanks for clarifying. For very small markets, like classics or nostalgic, maybe you could up the price because your potential buyers are price elastic? If you are selling to 10,000 older, rich guys who crave old school arcade action,
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Why would the author expect big sales from a polished version of a 30 year old genre? Look at his competition: Here is another $4.99 game in the action/indie category http://store.steampowered.com/app/211400/ The recent big indie hits ar
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by jpadkins 14y ago
might be the same amount of overhead needed for an OS to keep tabs on it's hardware, cluster, etc. Just like brains need to translate to the physical world via the nervous system, pure software needs to translate to the physical world via
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by jpadkins 14y ago
no, soon we will find ways to travel to the next lemon tree (again limiting factor is smart people's time). We will experience a renaissance like we did when the New World was discovered and explored.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
the limiting resource on our information economy is smart people's time. We don't suffer from a lack of raw materials. The only natural resource I can think that may be limiting economic growth is energy, and that is largely going to be so
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by jpadkins 14y ago
I don't understand why we can't all be happy with euro social-democratic levels of spending done at the state level, with minimal federal spending for military, justice dept, and programs that 80+% of the population agree with (~10% GDP).
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by jpadkins 14y ago
$93k dental work sounds like an outlier. In a free market, $93k dental work should be as rare Bentley's on the road. There are very few people who can afford $93k procedures, so dentists/doctors will have to figure out how to do the proced
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by jpadkins 14y ago
How is the US Healthcare system in anyway like a free market? It's by far the most heavily regulated industry, every aspect of it. I believe government pays ~ 1/3rd of all healthcare costs. Free market healthcare is veterinary, plastic surg
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by jpadkins 14y ago
CPI is only one measure of inflation. For example, substituting housing price index for owner equivalent rent raises the CPI a lot recently. Look at asset prices, they are going up very fast (historically). Or healthcare or higher educati
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by jpadkins 14y ago
http://www.reddit.com/user/thisisbillgates Not the best interface, but it is what you asked for...
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by jpadkins 14y ago
quick tip for the author: If you are doing a 2x2 grid, the convention is you want better to be up and to the right. So you want snapchat to be in the upper right quadrant. I was initially confused when I glanced at your table and thought

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