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Democrats nix putting pre-vote health bill online(google.com)
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Chart: U.S. Federal debt as a percentage of GDP(johnbtaylorsblog.blogspot.com)
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by miked 17y ago
A Washington power grab at its finest. The FCC has announced that it, and it alone, is ruler of the internet, although of course the announcement was couched in terms of "openness". It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the co
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by miked 17y ago
The article didn't mention this, but in my experience, the person who most negatively affects the team's chemistry is the first one out. Negativity gets people fired more than anything else. If it's true, it inevitably reflects on the man
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by miked 17y ago
This was interesting: ...the question is why bankers bought those triple-A mortgage-backed securities, and the answer may well lie in the regulations promulgated by government officials.[6] Had bankers been looking for the safety connoted
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by miked 17y ago
Japan engaged in quantitative easing for a decade and never had inflation. Correct. Instead they had the "Lost Decade" of economic stagnation, as it is known there (and here). It's actually been much longer than a decade now (it started i
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by miked 17y ago
Good point. People sometimes use expressions with operators as arguments. My take now is that, because comments are required for cases such as the above, they require them everywhere. What should happen is that they be optional. Also, it ju
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by miked 17y ago
Interesting answer, and goes to my suspicion that "this is the way we've always done it" is part of the answer. But see the comments above. The trouble with that is that on a line printer those '.'s really don't stand out very much and if
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Why do most programming languages use commas in argument lists?
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by miked 17y ago
Last but not least, never underestimate the ferocity and tenacity of the Serbs. The Ottomans and the Nazis sure learned their lesson. So did the Bosnians, Croats, Kosovars, and Macedonians.
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by miked 17y ago
But do NATO air forces other than the USAF have AWACS aircraft? Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Early_Warning_and_Cont... ...do note that a soldier does what he is told. As far as I know, Zoltan did not murder any civilians.
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by miked 17y ago
I very strongly suspect that these were not American planes at all, but rather those of certain other NATO countries. Indeed, Zoltan, as quoted, seems to continually conflate the terms "NATO" and "American". There was a lot of grumbling amo
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by miked 17y ago
I'm curious, are you saying that you know a lot about the oil business. And do you think that calling someone's position names ( free-market fundamentalism ) is a strong argument?
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by miked 17y ago
While I largely agree on most of your points, I think there's a porblem with this: The incentive structure for a CEO or other executive at a large multi-national oil firm is likely such that he/she would much rather have a lot of oil drill
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by miked 17y ago
I'm married to an immigrant (from China) and I and America are lucky to have her. Plenty of her fellow Chinese immigrant friends as well. On the other hand, since we're on the subject of Middle Eastern immigrants to Norway, here's something
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by miked 17y ago
Olsen gives al-Kasim much of the credit: he pushed the government to increase extraction rates; insisted that companies try new technologies, such as water injection in chalk reservoirs or horizontal drilling; and threatened to withdraw op
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by miked 17y ago
Key passage from the article: "Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to "direct the national response to the cyber threat" if necessary for "the national defense and security." The White
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by miked 17y ago
Graham's Razor: If you have to choose between two theories, prefer the one that doesn't center on you. . (With apologies to Mr. Occam.) BTW, I think the last line might be better phrased as "See indifference." The ubiquity of causation req
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by miked 17y ago
More recommendations of books that can change our thinking, please... In the tradition of Darwin and Dawkins, I heartily recommend Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature . Pinker's always worth reading, and fo
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Flickr yanks image of Obama as Joker(yro.slashdot.org)
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by miked 17y ago
It's no surprise that the revolutionary technologies of the internet were developed and deployed by (gasp) the Government. It wasn't until the internet was already well-established that commercial interests started to pay attention. Actua
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by miked 17y ago
FWIW, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and medical care for soldiers are all pretty good on the US scale. Ahoyhere's comment isn't the half of it. The incident happened at Walter Reed Army Hospital, which is the same place that US president's
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by miked 17y ago
Do people really think poor people choose to be so? Nobody wants to be poor. That no one wants to be poor is obvious enough, but it's hardly the same as whether or not they choose to be. The poorest person I know has an IQ of 186 and a Ph
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by miked 17y ago
Here's another perspective on the mother of the little girl who was "randomly selected" because Obama didn't want anyone thinking he was "just taking questions from a plant". "I have been honored to work with Kathleen Manning Hall on the Ne
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by miked 17y ago
I agree completely. Disjointed mentions of all and sundry, somehow adding up to another economic meltdown here in the US. As it happens, I'm guessing there will be will be another meltdown, but mostly because Obama and Congress are continui
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by miked 17y ago
But they are not even identical in appearance--I'm decent at telling them apart, and their mom does that very well. That rather sounds to me like they're very similar in appearance. In any case, it's brains and personality that count the
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by miked 17y ago
The best part is they're paying $300 a pop for what is probably ground-up chicken bones, or some such. Love it!
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Hold it: Cuba has run out of toilet paper for the next 5 months(news.yahoo.com)
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Worldwide Slump Makes Nigeria's Online Scammers Work That Much Harder(washingtonpost.com)
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by miked 17y ago
I wonder if his supplements also contain B vitamins. It's been known for a long time that certain B vitamins will ameliorate hangovers. My understanding is that alcoholic drink makers have been trying for years to supplement their product w

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