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by kgrin 17y ago
Fair enough; though insofar as we talk about removing the barriers to starting a business, "how will I provide for my [or my employees'] health care?" is a big one. Personally, I'd love to see a study of the impact on entrepreneurship/small
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by kgrin 17y ago
The latter point isn't entirely true - at its core, buying insurance isn't necessarily about using more than you put in over time, but rather mitigating risks (hedging). That's not necessarily how everyone treats the current system, or for
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by kgrin 17y ago
There's a pretty clear medical consensus (based on tons of data) that diet and exercise affects the development or progression of diabetes (well, type II). There's also a wide consensus that professional counseling and monitoring helps (th
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by kgrin 17y ago
I don't have the studies in front of me, but it generally depends. In the case of diabetes, for instance, a lifetime of diet monitoring and counseling by a doctor or nurse is still way cheaper than insulin or amputation.
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by kgrin 17y ago
That's true, though if you're on the hook for a person's catastrophic care, you may very well want to give them economic incentives (i.e. cheap/free doctor's checkups) to invest in preventative care. Now, this doesn't mean that we ought t
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by kgrin 17y ago
That's true enough (93 = "quatre-vingt-dix trois" = "four twenties and three"), but it's still the case that the more significant digit is listed first - it's just composed by multiplying.
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by kgrin 17y ago
Well, in a sense that's what he's doing now - the whole "Open source to open source, corporation to corporation" bit.
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by kgrin 17y ago
Rewound the DVD?
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by kgrin 17y ago
Different circumstances are sometimes, well, different. Sometimes a captive's life is more in danger if the captors consider him or her valuable (like a NYT reporter). Sometimes publicizing the situation helps bring attention in a positiv
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by kgrin 17y ago
Yes; it looks like it's more focused on a lightweight set of core features (obviously opinions as to what constitutes "core" features may vary). It actually seems more reminiscent of early mootools.
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by kgrin 17y ago
I suspect it's a practical concern if nothing else, having to do with mundane constraints like carry-on sizes. Also, as another practical matter, I highly doubt that the folks with severe air travel phobia would be even remotely trained to
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by kgrin 17y ago
Because unless most passengers are actually trained in how to use them, it wouldn't do much good; plus, for most reasonably sized planes, there simply wouldn't be enough time for anyone to jump with a chute.
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by kgrin 17y ago
> Women instinctively want to date and marry up. On what basis do you make that claim? And doesn't the same hold true for men? (Maybe along a different axis, e.g. physical attractiveness - see "trophy wife")
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by kgrin 17y ago
Well, since the current administration has at least made some moves towards transparency (e.g. setting up data.gov in the first place), it's reasonable to expect that the agencies who manage to do the coolest or most high-profile data relea
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by kgrin 17y ago
More importantly, that's hardly a consumer-grade solution, which is really what Adams is talking about. ("consumer-grade" meaning relatively affordable, reasonably straightforward to install and control, etc.)
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by kgrin 18y ago
To expand on the second point a bit more: one of the virtues of the department model is that (most) departments teach a particular way of approaching problems, a "discipline" if you will. They teach you to "think like a [computer scientist
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by kgrin 18y ago
As the study notes, a lot of the extra staff is there for good reasons, and not just bureaucracy for its own sake (that's not to say there isn't plenty of the latter, of course). So, can some of the extra staff be trimmed without affecting
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by kgrin 18y ago
Actually, I think they do... at least, comparing personal income tax rates (the factor most likely to matter to a new startup), MA does reasonably well: a flat 5.3%, as compared to CA's 1-9% (with the highest rate kicking in around $50K or
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by kgrin 18y ago
I'd second that, and add that pricing is particularly competitive if you're 26 or under (which I realize the OP probably isn't if s/he has a family of 4, but it might apply to others). This is one of the more startup-friendly features of li
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by kgrin 18y ago
One of the salient points that seems to be getting lost here is that the damage, at least as perceived by Jason (and to a large extent acknowledged by GS), was done in a very public way. So, simply fixing the problem going forward - as eve