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Attn Bloggers: FTC's stringent new guidelines take effect Dec. 1st(slate.com)
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by miked 17y ago
Obama spent years at the U of Chicago law school, a place that publishes by the pound. He didn't publish a single paper the entire time he was there. My guess is that's why they withheld the honorary degree.
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by miked 17y ago
in his defense it's not like he asked for it Let's see if he turns it down. Either way, it's a win-win of him and he'll get plenty of adulation.
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by miked 17y ago
I quite agree, but as you point out we don't have a lot of choices here. That's the best proxy I can think of.
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by miked 17y ago
the ineffective free-market principles that they knew to avoid Compare and contrast: The US, Canada, Japan, and western Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Maoist China vs. Hong King, socialist India, the Soviet Union, Germany under the Natio
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by miked 17y ago
That is a fairly profound statement when you consider the general state of the American educational system. I never fail to be amazed at how poorly US college and university systems are run. They are full of bureaucracy and little good tea
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by miked 17y ago
Of course that wouldn't work for a rich or famous person... True enough for O.J. Simpson. But Michael Milken could give you a different take on that issue. Prosecutors often want to make a name for themselves, and prosecuting John Q. Publ
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Congressional leaders fight against posting bills online(washingtonexaminer.com)
28 points by miked 17y ago|19 comments
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Obama Cuts Off Funding for Iranian Human-Rights Documentation(boston.com)
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by miked 17y ago
There's a slippery slope here, and it worries me, particularly as the FTC can pretty much just make it up as they go along. I want to live in a nation ruled by laws, not one ruled by men.
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by miked 17y ago
This resolution bears directly on anyone who publishes on the web, as UN resolutions have a way of becoming law. The purpose of this resolution clearly is to try and suppress all published criticism of Islam. Nut grafs from the article: Hi
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At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech.(weeklystandard.com)
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by miked 17y ago
I lived in Chicago for 5 years, San Fran area for 10 years, Los Angeles for 7 years, and Kansas City for about 8 years. I have to say that SF is probably the dirtiest, at least in parts, though Chicago always felt kind of rust-belty in many
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by miked 17y ago
Money in CA is allocated more in ways that benefit politically powerful groups, rather than what is most efficient for the public as a whole. The public sector unions are the very worst. It's incredible how long it takes them to repair a ro
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by miked 17y ago
In a word, greed. In a few more words, people failing to understand, tolerate, care for, and stand up for each other, especially people different from them. Greed wasn't just invented. Ditto for the rest. A scientific explanation requires
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by miked 17y ago
It's all part of the Gramscian Damage. The famous Unix guru Eric Raymond had a very illuminating post on this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260 If you ask most Americans who invaded Poland in 1939, most will simply say "Germany" or "the Nazi
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by miked 17y ago
At first I thought the title meant that he was selling $1.5 million Penthouse (magazine) photos. I thought "these should be worth looking at". I have a dirty, dirty mind.
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by miked 17y ago
My father-in-law was a mid-level Communist Party official (photo editor of the People's "Liberation" Army newspaper) who knew Mao personally. Years later Mao's people threw him in a concentration camp for "rightists" because he had made a j
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Is the Obama Administration Supporting Calls to Outlaw Supposed Hate Speech?(volokh.com)
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by miked 17y ago
Two typos: odd and even should be odd? and even? , since they are predicates. I'll cross-post this to the google group. Thanks for this. Much needed.
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by miked 17y ago
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Clojure yet. It was designed specifically to deal with multiple cores in an elegant fashion thru atoms, agents, and software transactional memory. It might just be the answer to the challenge. Che
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by miked 17y ago
A great piece. As a tie-in to Hacker News, note that the article it links to is by ucla prof Eugene Volokh, a successful software hacker himself.
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by miked 17y ago
I grew up in the sunflower state. The eastern half of the state isn't nearly as flat as has been reputed, but the western half, especially the southwest, is just amazingly level. I mean a landscape without a single feature anywhere . On th
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by miked 17y ago
Businesses in their first 90 days of life accounted for 14% of hiring in the U.S. between 1993 and 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ie., that 14% is just in their first 90 days.
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by miked 17y ago
The Democratic Party has controlled the legislature for several decades now, and the governor's mansion for much of that time. God forbid they take a little of the blame.
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by miked 17y ago
There's another open source port called IronScheme that's pretty far along. You can find it at: http://ironscheme.codeplex.com/
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Regulation costs California $500 billion a year(hotair.com)
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Key Computer Data on Global Warming Has Gone Missing (article.nationalreview.com)
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by miked 17y ago
Here's some data on the best and worst tax climates, by state: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/09/2010-state.h...
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2010 State Business Tax Climate Index(taxprof.typepad.com)
2 points by miked 17y ago|0 comments

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