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by newbie12 14y ago
What is the EPA doing about it right now? You'd be surprised to learn that many U.S. environmental laws were passed by Republican presidents. There's a "Nixon-goes-to-China" aspect to it. Indeed, Nixon created the EPA...
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by newbie12 14y ago
The environmental movement in America is worthless. They spent all of their time on lifestyle issues like battery cars, recycling, and global warming (issues that also line the pockets of their large donors) when there are real, profound i
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by newbie12 14y ago
SIDs, while still too common, has dropped 70% in the U.S. since the "back-to-sleep" effort and the general awareness of the situation. Children under 6 months don't have a reflex to carbon dioxide poisoning, and their respiratory systems a
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by newbie12 14y ago
Yeah, I'd much rather have the 12.4% a year of salary that the US government takes from my paycheck (and from my employer on my behalf). We are already getting cheated on our returns, and the Social Security program is still going off the
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by newbie12 14y ago
The federal government's Medicaid mandate is destroying state education budgets-- Medicaid is literally crowding out state public university education spending. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/medicaid...
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by newbie12 14y ago
Diversification is rarely good business, if it doesn't leverage some existing core competitive advantage. That's particularly true for public companies-- Amazon investors wanting some social game company exposure can easily buy some Zynga s
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by newbie12 14y ago
Ford also has to fund retirement benefits in advance. Because taxpayers are 100% on the hook for a USPS failure, and not for a Ford failure, the rules are tighter for USPS, which is appropriate. See: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/CNBC/Sect
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by newbie12 14y ago
No one could have predicted the horrors about to befall France in the 20th century...the bloom of her youth destroyed on the battlefields of the First World War, followed economic depression and then defeat and occupation by the Nazis. In
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by newbie12 14y ago
I would love to visit these sites someday in person.
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by newbie12 14y ago
A little funding for basic computer science research is not big government. Bailing out banks and giving private solar companies loans is big government.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Even the cool look holds a fatal flaw....never again will we design rockets where the cargo rides adjacent to the fuel, rather than on top.
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by newbie12 14y ago
They do. It is called the "revolving door". After a few years, most senior SEC staff go on to work in the banks they are supposed to regulate.
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The key is to make the bribes matter less, by limiting the size and scope of government's power.
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by newbie12 14y ago
This tech is far better for the environment than the air travel it would displace.
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by newbie12 14y ago
This is spot on. After four years as an independent, burnout is a huge issue. I'm 1/3 as productive as when I started down this path.
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by newbie12 14y ago
This technology is badly needed today for skin cancer screenings. We could save tens of thousands of lives a year with better detection of cancers and pre-cancerous growths. It is crazy that most screenings in 2012 are still 3 minutes a
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by newbie12 14y ago
The answer to runaway health care costs is less government, and more innovation and competition.
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by newbie12 14y ago
That is correct, the two fastest growing entitlements are Medicare and Medicaid.
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by newbie12 14y ago
I respect the work, but the samples look a lot like Symfony2, which has a huge community behind it. Sf2 has a learning curve but I'm not sure what problem Laravel solves that Sf2 (or its simplified kid brother Silex) doesn't already solve.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Ironically, the German war plans were geared towards the conflict starting in 1944. If they had held off and gone to war later with vastly greater numbers of submarines, jet fighters (Me 262), and perhaps even a nuclear weapon...
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by newbie12 14y ago
Well put. Additionally, German industry was under heavy strategic air bombardment, further complicating their ability to mass produce tanks. And Tigers were vulnerable from the air, and the U.S. had nearly complete tactical air superiorit
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by newbie12 14y ago
That's not what "compassion" means. It is "a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering." What you really mean to say is "empathy" http://www.di
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by newbie12 14y ago
Of course, the Axis Powers were Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy. Plus the site name's black and steel lettering has vaguely foreboding, retro-fascist feel. Or maybe it is a Star Wars Imperial vibe. Either way, just saying
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by newbie12 14y ago
Of course, Capitol is ancient Latin word.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Agreed. The market will sort this out. RelayRides needs to completely protect its car lenders.
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by newbie12 14y ago
She has clear liability. She agreed, after reviewing the request, to rent her car, for a profit, to someone who was a reckless driver and did serious harm to others (and, sadly, himself). I hate the U.S. tort system but some liability in t
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by newbie12 14y ago
It is conceivable that renting your car to a complete stranger, who might be a reckless driver, could result in serious harm to others. Even worse, in this case, RelayRides makes you partly responsible because you are allowed to interview
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by newbie12 14y ago
RelayRides is not carrying enough insurance. Individual coverage from car owners is inadequate, and car owners can't be expected to purchase commercial car rental insurance just to participate in RelayRides. This kind of reminds me of AirB
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by newbie12 14y ago
No doubt. This is a huge win for Facebook, as the article sort of mentions. There's no money left on the table, Facebook got full value for their stock.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Roman times were unique. Writing was widespread and the continent-wide infrastructure was without precedent. At the peak of Pax Romana, one could travel generally without protection from southern England to Syria, speaking Latin or perhap

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