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by mellis 17y ago
I don't get it. Friedman points out that while the U.S. government spends less on health care than almost any other OECD country, the country as a whole spends much more. And yet his solution is less government spending on health care? H
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by mellis 17y ago
I have Mac OS X, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux running on my unibody 13" MacBook. There are a couple of things to watch out for. You can only have three partitions, because the GPT / MBR synching only supports four and one is used as an
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Where Are We Now? Five Point Summary [of the financial situation](baselinescenario.com)
1 points by mellis 17y ago|0 comments
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by mellis 17y ago
For a concept that depends so heavily on invoking a personal / emotional response in your users, I don't think the graphic design is good enough. The pages are heavily themed (e.g. strong background image, handwriting fonts); if you're goi
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by mellis 17y ago
To me, this case illustrates a scary fact: we entrust large amounts of our data, visibility / reputation (in the form of search results), and revenue (ad sense) to a company that applies no human judgement to individual cases regardless of
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by mellis 17y ago
Invitation-only events are not only for people with "property". They also allow those with "energy" to keep an event from being diluted by those without it. Why shouldn't a group of hackers be able to get together with people they choose?
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by mellis 17y ago
So would many people (especially in today's economic climate), which is why gold is much more expensive than it was in the 80's and 90's (see: http://goldprice.org/30-year-gold-price-history.html ). If today's uncertainty subsides, gold c
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by mellis 17y ago
This seems overblown. If you look at the attached graphic, you'll see that the dollar is back to where it was at the start of October, two weeks after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and started a panic that drove flocks of investors to
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by mellis 17y ago
As someone who's used both the Silverlight and AIR versions of the Times Reader (for the Mac), I can say that the AIR version works much better. The application is more responsive, the window can be any size, the text layout looks better,
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by mellis 17y ago
As one of the creators of Arduino (and currently its lead software developer), I'm happy to see such a lively discussion of the platform. I'd also love to hear any suggestions you might have for improving it. I should note that we've done
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by mellis 17y ago
Woah, my last name appeared on the second page of results. I found the distinction between "order" and "buy" unclear, although the color coding helps somewhat. Perhaps "backorder" (what Go Daddy uses) would be clearer? An option to only s
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by mellis 17y ago
The ultimate recent example being Chrysler, in which Fiat got a 20% (later rising to 35% and beyond) stake for "free". (They're sharing IP, etc.) http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13610819
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The Fight over the Google of All Libraries(wired.com)
1 points by mellis 17y ago|0 comments
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Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software?(markshuttleworth.com)
7 points by mellis 17y ago|0 comments
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by mellis 18y ago
I hope this doesn't lead to one instance of the application for every program that needs updating. What would be more useful is a way for third-party applications to work with the existing Google Update. That way, you could update all you
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by mellis 18y ago
Non-competes are basically a source of friction in the employment market. They create inefficiencies because employees can no longer go to work for the company to which they will provide most value (which will presumably reward them commen
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by mellis 18y ago
Non-competes could be seen (from a company's point of view) as a form of the prisoner's dilemma: everyone is better off if no one requires non-competes, but if everyone else requires them than I need to. Therefore, a law of this sort could
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by mellis 18y ago
That number seems to be inaccurate. The Treasury Direct website http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np states that the total U.S. public debt is: 10,943,838,929,434.92 (~11 trillion dollars). The U.S. GDP is close to 1
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by mellis 18y ago
What's missing are CMS's with well-designed user interfaces. From what I've seen, Wordpress has one, and that's it (at least of the open-source options). There's room for a CMS that focuses on non-blog content but provides good and separa