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by leot 6y ago
The Upton Sinclair quote has seldom been more apt. Assuming it could be effectively and efficiently administered, replacing all income taxes with a wealth tax (and VAT) would massively simplify the tax code while making it significantly mor
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by leot 6y ago
The headline shouldn’t use the term “voter fraud” as it’s a concept invented after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act [1] to (one presumes) restrict democratic participation. “Election fraud”, “electoral fraud”, are all far better for
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Can anyone explain why Tuesday C19 deaths have been 2x Sunday's?(twitter.com)
1 points by leot 6y ago|2 comments
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by leot 7y ago
Or maybe extreme, frontier-inspired individualism went obsolete once the West was Won? I’m all for smart people being paid well to work hard. But there has to be a better model. Perhaps something similar to the massive payouts we see lawyer
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by leot 7y ago
You could say the same about not voting.
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by leot 7y ago
What does “earned” mean when we are the inheritors of 100s of trillions of years of brutal, ruthless, evolutionary work done by those who came before us? We are able to at best apply a light touch to the tiller of the massive, complex ship
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Why Shared Channels are So Cool(slackhq.com)
3 points by leot 7y ago|0 comments
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by leot 7y ago
You realize that the physician could have done both eyes in the same sitting, and then used the saved time to perform a procedure for someone else, right? Doing so would have been better for everyone, rather than riskier and much less conve
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by leot 7y ago
I have direct knowledge of an ophthalmologist splitting surgeries over two days that could have been done in one session, because it nearly doubles their billings. They justify it by pointing at their less educated yet better-compensated co
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by leot 7y ago
"Shareholder value" misses at least two critical bits of context: 1. over what timescale? 2. at what level of risk? As soon as they are incorporated, it's obvious that firms have both more leeway and more responsibility to t
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by leot 7y ago
This is exactly the approach we're using for hackerpet (hackerpet.com)
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by leot 7y ago
"Spark" the IoT company renamed itself to "Particle" and it seems to have gone ok.
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by leot 7y ago
Excellent example of strawman click-bait: 1 take a newsy subject involving something many people like 2 choose an aspect of it about which to adopt the "sober skeptic" stance 3 write the article as though this aspect is the only
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by leot 8y ago
One object lesson in how this can go wrong: REI This "cooperative" ostensibly elects its board. In reality, nomination by existing members of the REI board is the only way to stand for election by the REI membership, and when you
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Wikifying scholarly canons (2013)(blog.scholarpedia.org)
2 points by leot 8y ago|0 comments
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by leot 8y ago
The mode of the distribution in the video appears to be zero. How is that possible?
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L'Anse aux Meadows(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by leot 8y ago|0 comments
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by leot 8y ago
Utter hogwash. The author's mistake, often made by physicians when presented with technology that gives consumers more information, is that consumer knowledge and attitudes remain static. In fact, while this may at first lead to a bunc
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by leot 8y ago
They weren't the kind of visionary founders that we know the names of.
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by leot 8y ago
Name a time when a genuinely ambitious and innovative company booted its visionary founders, and it went well.
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Sono Sion: a solar-powered commercial car(sonomotors.com)
1 points by leot 8y ago|0 comments
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by leot 8y ago
The amount of skepticism here from those who otherwise have nothing to contribute to solving this problem is, at best, asinine. Is there some kind of glut of initiative and capital being directed to genuinely ambitious "zero to one&quo
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by leot 8y ago
Prior to the destruction of North American light rail systems, a process accelerated by US auto companies (which bought urban rail cos only to then neglect them) public transit companies were entirely private and often entirely capitalized
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by leot 8y ago
Underground space is more expensive than above.
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by leot 8y ago
Netflix is an Amazon Prime video competitor.
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by leot 8y ago
Few things in American law are more reprehensible than the retroactive extension of rights that only exist as an incentive to create.
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Cavendish experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by leot 8y ago|0 comments
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by leot 8y ago
Infrastructure (ops, software, hiring, social) matters. Hiring some dude won't give you that.
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by leot 8y ago
When a company is more vulnerable to short sellers and FUD it may make more sense for it to be private. And there are reasons a company may be thus-vulnerable apart from mismanagement. E.g. if its success depends on fantastical sounding but
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by leot 8y ago
Why not relay that, too?

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