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by miked 16y ago
Shorter Kedrosky: "Goldman Sachs says that if lots of Americans start buying lots and lots of stuff -- which might or might not happen -- then the GDP will go way up." No attempt to identify a reasonable set of underlying factors beyond pri
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by miked 16y ago
The article is largely trying to, in effect, refute the usefulness of HN. If merit counts for little, i.e., if reading about and doing all the things that are discussed on HN is a waste of time, then why is this site here and why are you re
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by miked 16y ago
>> Comcast Corporation Comcast is or soon will be, the owner of the left-wing station MSNBC. Does that mean that we can safely disregard everything said on there? And libertarians are NOT pro-business, they are pro-LIBERTY. In a wo
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US government assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus(projects.washingtonpost.com)
9 points by miked 16y ago|0 comments
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Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the “dihydrogen monoxide” petition(wattsupwiththat.com)
10 points by miked 16y ago|15 comments
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A software CEO and liberal Democrat on red tape and innovation(washingtonpost.com)
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by miked 16y ago
However, they failed because of systematic falsehoods being injected into the system by managers -- who were afraid to tell the truth... Hedrick Smith gives many examples of this kind of lying in his book _The Russians_. While that's cert
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by miked 16y ago
> Now you can get a job at an exciting startup instead of a 12 year old advertising company with 15,000 programmers. I assume you're referring to Google.
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by miked 16y ago
New York State law requires that one out of every five Thomas Friedman columns make some sense. This one bags his quota for the month.
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FTC Drops Investigation of Google After Company Exec Hosts Obama Fundraiser(biggovernment.com)
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by miked 16y ago
I believe that the people doing the "digital breaking and entering" are called "programmers", just as pg claimed.
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Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy(boingboing.net)
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by miked 16y ago
HockBox.com
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U.S. Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority(foxnews.com)
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by miked 16y ago
The bakers usually start out small but end up ENORMOUS. Another data point for discussions of low-carb diets.
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UC Berkeley Students Denied Genetic Test Results(futurepundit.com)
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by miked 16y ago
"A kindergarten teacher reports that the hardest part of her job was watching her pupils die of starvation. A pediatrician says much the same about her patients." As it happens, my brother-in-law came into town today. At dinner, he asked my
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SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure(foxbusiness.com)
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by miked 16y ago
If you take vitamin D, make sure it is D3! In his book _The Vitamin D Solution_, Dr. Michael Holick ( the discoverer of the active form of Vit-D) debunks this myth with data. I haven't read most of it, but it looks interesting.
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by miked 16y ago
The US is still the world's largest manufacturer, by a hair: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_has_the_largest_manuf...
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by miked 16y ago
I believe that the NYT still has all their obituaries "approved" in advance by their subjects. I.e., when a person the NYT considers notable gets older, the NYT sends a copy of their proposed obit to the individual for suggestions. That's w
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by miked 16y ago
Other measures of health care quality, such as infant mortality, are worse in the US... Nope. The US spends far more on trying to save the lives of premature and sickly newborns than any other country. Many these don;t make it after being
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Democrats block amendment to ensure press access to oil spill(washingtonexaminer.com)
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by miked 16y ago
>> So this is by the guy who ran Northern Rock into the wall. Umm, no. Ridley was a non-executive director. He accepts blame for its demise in the book. He wasn't an executive running the company, though as a director he certainly s
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by miked 16y ago
As far as Japan is concerned, the theories about how they would have fought for every house, etc. are false. One of the most astonishing facts about the Pacific War was how few Japanese soldiers ever surrendered to the Allies (before the
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by miked 16y ago
Vox Day...is a racist...Taki is a well-known antisemite. This article is fucking stupid. Why do I keep seeing articles from racist websites on Hacker News? Now that's insightful thinking! Evidence? Since it's so well-known, I assume it
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by miked 16y ago
So: low interest rates caused the housing bubble. Could you explain how that happened exactly? Many things caused the housing bubble, but printing money (causing low interest rates) was a huge part of it. It works like this: when somethin
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White House admits violating lobbying pledge with Google(washingtonexaminer.com)
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by miked 16y ago
It's worth hitting the link just for the three Paul Samuelson quotes at the beginning. And this from a man awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics.
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90% of young Philadelphians unfit for military service(cbs3.com)
1 points by miked 16y ago|0 comments

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