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by leot 16y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. One estimate puts the number of houses destroyed at around 100k ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42025882/ns/world_news-asia-paci... ). Car ownership is around 1 car for every two people in Japan, no doubt more i
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by leot 16y ago
Attention economy.
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by leot 16y ago
This is particularly ill-timed for the rebels in Libya.
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by leot 16y ago
Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee claim the internet flourished because of the maintenance of a common carriage agreement, which net neutrality advocates want to cement. I can understand how common carriage rules lead to great things on the i
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by leot 16y ago
The fallacy here is the engagement of "long-run" reasoning, which assumes that market inefficiencies are static long enough for entrepreneurs to overcome the various barriers to entry (the long-run requires an assumption of stationarity). I
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by leot 16y ago
The conspiracy isn't particularly hidden -- this is just rational behavior by large ISPs. Like every producer of a service, the telcos don't want to see their product commoditized and subject to pure competition, and they are doing all they
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by leot 16y ago
Perhaps a good model here is that Boehner's position and ATT's support are dynamically coupled ... each causes and maintains the other. Kinda makes it tricky to assign blame (which is fortunate, for Boehner).
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by leot 16y ago
Canada has demographics comparable to the US's, but pays its teachers much more. The results are evident in OECD's "Programme for International Student Assessment" (PISA) http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/60/46619703.pdf A rewarding job wit
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by leot 16y ago
In fairness, as a Canadian living in the US, if I were really rich I might move here because of the quality of healthcare I could get. This doesn't mean the system does the greatest good for the greatest number (by any stretch). The US is e
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by leot 16y ago
It sounds like you're saying "government is the problem". But nearly every other developed country doesn't have this problem . Please, explain why government is the reason for why the US healthcare system is so much poorer than the healthc
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by leot 16y ago
Likewise in Canada. I think the wait time numbers are higher because people are waiting to see "their" doctor. But there are lots of drop-in private clinics, and it is always "free" to visit them.
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by leot 16y ago
For the last 30 years, 16,000 new doctors are let through each year, and this is very carefully regulated to keep guild members rich. There's nothing wrong with that, but the problem is that the government is used as a tool to
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by leot 16y ago
... perhaps because it should be h / 24 instead of h / 60 ? body.animate({"background-color": "rgb(" + parseInt((h / 60) * 255) + "," + parseInt((m / 60) * 255) + "," + parseI
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by leot 16y ago
If this were something the health insurance lobbyists wanted, why have the health insurance companies spent so much in the last election to try and overturn it?
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by leot 16y ago
Wouldn't I get phone calls from the disgruntled last person who had the phone number? I suppose even then at least it would be temporary ...
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by leot 16y ago
Possible uses of "free" (as in freedom/libre) ... There's free for whom/what: - the developer's freedom - the user's freedom ... and there are also multiple time-scales of "free" (much as there are multiple timescales of "wealthy"): - free
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by leot 16y ago
It seems that the majority of commenters here did not, in fact, RTFA. Let's not have the facts get in way of a prevalent collective delusion, though: that when every incentive and opportunity for malfeasance exists, bankers will consistentl
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by leot 16y ago
In fact, Don Norman is among the world's most qualified to say this kind of thing: he was founding Chair of UC San Diego's Cognitive Science department, where (among other theses) the notion of distributed cognition was developed (during No
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by leot 16y ago
I remember an article perhaps 10 years ago about how these were displayed in the a (public?) CIA museum.
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by leot 16y ago
By "relatively unprofitable" I meant "just profitable enough". When the a product becomes commoditized the market for it becomes (much more) efficient, and thus only minimally profitable, because the principal goal of the actors within it
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by leot 16y ago
The problem with Network Neutrality is that it's very easy to see the development of a monopoly/oligopoly that will have near complete control of the world's most valuable man-made resource. When it comes to the corporate behavior, only the
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by leot 16y ago
The lack of imagination of the unsympathetic knee-jerk skeptic who reads only the headline never ceases to amaze: "... I'd never see anything [with white pavement] ..." [right, how many roofs do you spend time scrutinizing?] "... now you ca
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by leot 16y ago
FTA: "lighter colored pavement". In any case, it's not like any "white" (walked-on) pavement would stay that way very long.
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by leot 16y ago
I believe the author is taking issue with the notion that "the truth will out" in the marketplace of ideas. In this I sympathize with Fish. It is as though the truth's-being-out was some final result, rather than merely an ephemeral change
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by leot 16y ago
"there is nothing wrong with rightfully earned monopolies." Market dynamics can create an anti-competitive, bad-for-the-economy monopoly without gov't help. Your assertion assumes that there exists no economic barrier so large that it is ir
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by leot 16y ago
Python, unlike any other language I've dealt with, lends itself very nicely to producing stuff that's reusable and easy to understand. I chalk this up to * lack of elitism in documentation (e.g. there are always plenty of examples) * lack o
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by leot 16y ago
... indeed, it is a bit rich to hear the US DoD, which appears ok with causing 10s of thousands of deaths in support of its (questionable) strategic aims, taking moral umbrage at the possibility that the behavior of another party might in t
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by leot 16y ago
Well, learned, or people who speak French: http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/vulgariser EDIT: I see that someone beat me to the punch ...
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by leot 16y ago
vi was released in, apparently, 1976. http://www.linfo.org/vi/history.html
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by leot 16y ago
Yes, you are. The only thing I inferred from the article was the existence of inter-agency political conflicts, turf wars, and bureaucratic risk-averse officiousness.

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