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   by nw 17y ago

   I strongly agree that email should be taxed. However... 3c per email is a bit steep! The price should be just enough to upset the spammers' ROI calculation. If, on average, 1 in 100,000 spam messages results in an average $50 sale, the emai
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   by nw 17y ago

   Labor has become so specialized that individual workers are too often disconnected from the final product or outcome. It's hard to remain motivated and engaged under such conditions. I'm not an entrepreneurial hacker like so many on this si
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   by nw 17y ago

   We can certainly look at the natural world for clues, but how would one use math or empiricism to get at God? Can you describe God mathematically in order to plug him into a formula? Of course this is absurd. 'Science' is just a fancy word
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   by nw 17y ago

   Generally the Dutch like their system, and I think it works pretty well for them. But as the article suggests, it works because they have such a communal spirit and sense of shared values. Americans have that individualist spirit and we are
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   Aardvark intelligently routes your question to someone who knows the answer(vark.com)

   1 points by nw 18y ago|0 comments
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   by nw 18y ago

   Conceptually, styles and positioning are two different animals. We need a tripartite model of 1) content, 2) styles, and 3) layout/positioning. Unfortunately neither tables nor CSS handle positioning well in all cases, hence the perpetual a