msrpotus

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by msrpotus 9y ago
Very interested in this as well.
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U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem(axios.com)
186 points by msrpotus 9y ago|261 comments
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Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests(nbcnews.com)
142 points by msrpotus 9y ago|42 comments
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“Slam Dunk” Antitrust Case Against Alphabet-Google(precursorblog.com)
2 points by msrpotus 9y ago|0 comments
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by msrpotus 9y ago
"Kosher" has never been a set of objective standards. Jews have been arguing about it for thousands of years. It's not a scientific law; it's rules set out by rabbis and basically every aspect of it has been contested at
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Full Tilt Capital Progress Report: Not as Crazy as You Thought(startupsventurecapital.com)
1 points by msrpotus 9y ago|0 comments
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by msrpotus 9y ago
Hey everyone, I'd love your feedback on the site, too: http://shakingnews.com/ It's very much a work-in-progress but would appreciate your guidance on how to improve it.
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Why start: I just couldn’t sit back(medium.com)
2 points by msrpotus 9y ago|1 comments
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The Dildo of Damocles: What happens when you connect sex toys to the internet?(theawl.com)
2 points by msrpotus 9y ago|0 comments
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by msrpotus 10y ago
They legally aren't allowed to check but if a staffer or politician recognizes someone's name and remembers that they met at a fundraiser, it obviously influences them, at least subconsciously.
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by msrpotus 10y ago
What about a new media organization focused on covering politics in a way that contributes to strengthening democracy? Is that something YC would be interested in? I'm exploring this idea and trying to figure out how to make it work.
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by msrpotus 10y ago
Arguably not the first time, if you count Nixon firing his Attorney General and then Deputy Attorney General because they wouldn't fire the Watergate prosecutor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacr
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by msrpotus 10y ago
Would you be arguing that if Hillary Clinton had won and ordered the FBI to stop communicating with the public? Somehow I doubt it.
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by msrpotus 10y ago
There's no rule that says that rich cities will continue to have bad schools. To take one counter example, there are plenty of well-off parents in NYC who send their kids to public schools because New York has built a number of public
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Never built New York: the city that might have been – in pictures(theguardian.com)
66 points by msrpotus 10y ago|10 comments
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by msrpotus 10y ago
I've tried to do that for relatively routine care and it's a headache and a half. I spent half a workday (because, of course, I could only do it during business hours--good thing I have a job with a flexible schedule) calling up d
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by msrpotus 10y ago
I've been using Battery Time Remaining for a while and it has some useful features that even the old indicator didn't have (for instance, which apps are draining the battery the most). https://itunes.apple.com/au&#
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Evernote's new not-so-privacy policy will let employees read your notes(zdnet.com)
30 points by msrpotus 10y ago|2 comments
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Functional versus Unit Organizations(medium.learningbyshipping.com)
2 points by msrpotus 10y ago|0 comments
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by msrpotus 10y ago
Pita isn't necessarily baked; is it in some other category?
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Amelia Earhart's last chapter was as a heroic castaway(amp.cnn.com)
4 points by msrpotus 10y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley Etiquette(medium.com)
2 points by msrpotus 10y ago|0 comments
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by msrpotus 10y ago
But iPhones aren't catching fire.
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Apple responds to diversity criticism: “We had a Canadian” onstage(mic.com)
2 points by msrpotus 10y ago|1 comments
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by msrpotus 10y ago
The DC Metro system (the subway) is designed so that it could be used as a bunker.
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by msrpotus 10y ago
If they aren't living there, why don't they just rent a lot of the houses out? I guess they don't need the money but that has always struck me as weird.
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by msrpotus 10y ago
Read the article: recipients (and people who formerly received assistance) are not happy. The opposite of what you write is true--they have to deal with more onerous requirements and aren't getting good jobs.
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Keep earning your title, or it expires(sivers.org)
1 points by msrpotus 10y ago|0 comments
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by msrpotus 10y ago
He's really wrong about the kosher example in a way that makes me wonder whether he really understands a lot of what he's talking about. Anyone who is familiar with kashrut knows that only vegetarian foods (with a few exceptions)
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by msrpotus 10y ago
I really hate the new look. Maybe I'll get used to it over time but right now it seems make a major step backwards.

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