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by pj 17y ago
I find it humorous that it is sponsored by FICO, the credit card industry friend. College students are those most approached by credit cards. They are also the least likely to understand how to use them appropriately. FICO is really a syst
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by pj 17y ago
Perhaps I should have said, "A better evolutionary explanation for helpless babies is..." Babies began being born prematurely after humans started walking upright. It was after these helpless babies were born that we evolved the ability
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by pj 17y ago
I actually believe a free market would go a long way to helping correct the problems with our health care system -- even without the government providing that care. In a free market, there would be more doctors and therefore more clinics.
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by pj 17y ago
In most countries in the western world, except for the United States, and recently Canada, medical care is available for free. In Spain for example, women can get birth control pills without a prescription. They visit the doctor, not becau
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by pj 17y ago
It doesn’t make tremendous evolutionary sense to have these creatures that can’t even keep themselves alive and require an enormous investment of time on the part of adults. That period of dependence is longer for us than it is for any oth
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by pj 17y ago
The United States spends $2.5 trillion a year on health care, more than any other rich nation, and yet has poorer outcomes. About $700 billion is wasted each year. The reason is simple: Artificial controls on supply and demand of medical
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by pj 17y ago
You can patent anything. Whether or not they'll hold up in court is another matter entirely.
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by pj 17y ago
http://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/investments-an...
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You're right. Flagged!
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I'm wondering how it is different from mahalo or alltop or any of the other sites that do exactly the same thing...
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by pj 17y ago
And cost the world an educated work force... Everyone I have spoken to, from computer science professors to employers are dismayed at the quality of computer science students and graduates. I don't see how this is going to make the proble
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by pj 17y ago
How quickly we forget, from 4 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615528 "Report: Mint Considers Selling Anonymized Data from Its Users (readwriteweb.com)" Is it fun to have your financial data sold to, perhaps several of, the
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by pj 17y ago
It's not journalism I'm trying to save, but rather the journalists. I suppose in any industry, the cream of the crop will always have jobs. I was trying to think of a way to help journalists continue doing what they love: writing, researc
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by pj 17y ago
A librarian is close and I love them and use them a lot. It still takes time for me to read the books and comb through that info to find what is relevant to the particular question.
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I think this is quite in line with the idea actually.
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That's exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you!
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I think the point is that Adobe Air creates a "closed" web. Standards are open.
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by pj 17y ago
That's right, niche journalism. Could be called research. Perhaps a community of people could ask questions and they could contribute a certain amount of funds to the answer. When the amount of money people are willing to pay for the ans
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by pj 17y ago
Do you know of a market place for researchers? I'm thinking of something like elance or crowdspring for research. Here's some perspective on the topic of research for hire in the stock market: http://www.sism.com/independentresearchagrowin
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Ask HN: Good idea to save journalism?
10 points by pj 17y ago|25 comments
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by pj 17y ago
Before computers came about, the geeks were carpenters and mechanics. I find I get along well with both types of people and we usually have lots to talk about.
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by pj 17y ago
One of the driving forces behind hackers is that they (we) want to solve problems. Larger companies don't let us solve problems because of politics and bureaucracy. They don't have enough "interesting" problems, so we invent our own. We als
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by pj 17y ago
I should have been more clear. I do not develop in Flash. Unfortunately, I do have to install flash to view some content on the web. I also forgot that I do use FusionCharts and that is Flash, but I do intend to move away from it when time
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by pj 17y ago
Most users of the internet aren't aware of security issues. They don't know what to do and not to do. If a window pops up telling them they have to install something, they do and that might be a trojan or malware or a virus, who knows...
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by pj 17y ago
Anything that runs with its own executable code on the user's machine is a potential attack vector. Here's just one such example: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-20.ht...
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by pj 17y ago
I use Opera for my main browser, but I run firefox for app dev/debugging issues. FireBug is the best thing about firefox. I believe Opera has the best dev team out there. Their pages render correctly more often than any other browser. If e
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by pj 17y ago
I am not a Microsoft hater, but I still haven't installed Silverlight. I don't really like the idea of "web augmentation" through GUI tools. I don't like flash. I don't like any of them. I think they run contrary to the future of the web.
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by pj 17y ago
I'd like to see some correlations between how many users a site has and its longevity, exit, revenue, etc...
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by pj 17y ago
Three words: Blood and Gore.
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by pj 17y ago
The climate issue is the most irrational topic in the world right now.

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