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by padobson 10y ago
> Alternatively, the businesses owners in their distract want more work and are willing to donate to get it It's either: Congress members are voting for job programs for their constituents so they can convince their constituents to
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by padobson 10y ago
Said contractors hire employees to build the ship. They also hire other contractors who hire employees to build components that are used to build the ships. So some of these congress members were going to bat for their constituents. Now, yo
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This is the best argument I've heard to vote for Trump.
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Excellent comment. Especially this: Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of c
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It's strange to me to read a gifted author lavish such praise on another creative talent. It felt very genuine and inspired - which is pretty much how I feel when I visit Disney World. For all the flaws of Disney, the creations of the
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by padobson 10y ago
This is fine advice if you're talented enough to startup without a co-founder. It's also fine advice if you're lucky enough to find a co-founder in your local talent pool. However, if you find that starting up is beyond your
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The idea that stock exchanges provide disincentives for long term strategic planning at public companies is not just an economic problem, but a political problem. As an entrepreneur, I'm proud of Reese for trying to tackle a big politi
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LinkedIn closed public trading on Friday at ~131 per share. This deal represents a $196 per share price - so anyone that purchased on Friday is looking at ~50% ROI. Is this the best non-Facebook ROI for a social network that's been ava
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Agreed. I won't discount the benefits of infrastructure now, pay later, so long as the infrastructure being built is economically maintainable later.
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I find it worrisome that the author starts from a place of advocating borrowing to support building more infrastructure. I was pleased, at least, to see that he seemed to believe that infrastructure funds needed to be invested prudently. I
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I find the moral outrage against sex by my fellow Christians to be a perversion of the teachings of Jesus. Two C.S. Lewis quotes on the subject: "The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins." "...a c
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I think I'd add another layer to this: Charisma wins undecided voters, and undecided voters win elections. ~60% of the country (~30% GOP, ~30% Dem) vote along party lines. It's the ~30% in the middle that decide elections, and I&#
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The agriculture, restaurant, and food industry. Quite a bit, actually.
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Yes! It's incredible how many things we think we need to do that we don't actually need to do. 1) Finding a better solution and 2) Finding out you didn't need to do it at all are two great outcomes from procrastinating.
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I remember the first time I put together a parallax-scrolling background in a 2D video game. The extra sense of immersion you get for the amount of effort required to add it is absolutely worth it. What I found most refreshing about this vi
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by padobson 10y ago
The Disney/Iwerks and Jobs/Wozniak analogy is a good one. In fact, you'll rarely find a world-shifting industrialist who didn't work with some co-genius.
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It makes sense to me. A religious person in pain without hope looks at suicide as an option and thinks, "I've got it bad now, but it's only going to get worse if I do this..." Whereas a non-religious person is thinking,
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by padobson 11y ago
I'm wondering why we're not seeing any accusations of malfeasance. 126k voter registrations disappearing on election day seems a bit fishy to me. I'm all for streamlining voting processes to make it easier on the voter, but I
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The Northeastern megalopolis, stretching from Boston to Washington, contains more than 50 million people and represents 20 percent of America’s gross domestic product. Greater Los Angeles accounts for more than 10 percent of G.D.P. These c
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It doesn't help that Google and Facebook figured out how to make those business models insanely profitable on the Internet.
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The former should be public, while the latter should be commercially driven as much as possible. I think there's a recipe for consensus building here. Granted that you'll never be able to pay for universal health care by elimina
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I was more asking whether or not the quality and advancement of the healthcare in the United States justifies what it costs. Are we getting what we pay for? Another way to phrase it: if we trade market forces for universal access, will the
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by padobson 11y ago
So the US spends a ridiculous percentage of it's GDP (15-20%) on health care. Many treatments for serious diseases are far too expensive for a family living on a median income to afford, so health insurance is a requirement in order to
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by padobson 11y ago
Yahoo!, one of the original pillars of Internet media, is being carved up right now. So it seems fitting that Twitter, one of the pillars of social media, is trying to adopt their business model: try everything, specialize at nothing. At th
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by padobson 11y ago
Thanks for the PG article. Here's the money paragraph: The problem is, the world these kids create for themselves is at first a very crude one. If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the
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by padobson 11y ago
You mean Europe's Canada?
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Introducing a bug at voting machines that makes them break in unfavorable precincts would probably be the most effective election hacking strategy.
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Housing, education and healthcare are strange markets. The argument against nationalization is huge, monopolistic bureaucracies eliminate efficiencies that markets naturally create. But what happens when the market creates an environment wh
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Start 10 businesses and stick with the winner(s).
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This is a great illustration of what reducing the labor pool will do for the demand for labor. Every laborer that turns entrepreneur will have a positive impact on wages, because it reduces the labor supply while simultaneously increasing t

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