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by ramanujan 15y ago
Marco's heart is in the right place here, but campaign finance reform actually ends up disproportionately empowering media outlets. While various kinds of direct donations to candidates are capped or made more difficult by CFR, newspapers a
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by ramanujan 15y ago
^ This kind of post just drags HN down, and is the kind of thing that jacquesm was talking about. Seeing something this rude at the top of HN for a post this guy worked hard on is probably not what he expected, and made his lunch taste a li
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Can you put your contact information in your profile?
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by ramanujan 15y ago
For the business market, the most important Google+ feature for Apps has to be the ability to limit Google+ sharing to within your domain. The weird thing is that they allow this for Google Docs for Apps, so it must be some sort of oversigh
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by ramanujan 15y ago
This might be a contrary view, but Cython has been ready for production for quite a while while PyPy has still been getting its boots on: http://cython.org/ It actually works right out of the box. You can download it and get real world ex
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Let's consider this from a pure econ perspective: 1. In terms of supply, there are millions of people who spend long hours at sea for often far less pay and creature comforts than the people aboard this cruise ship would be getting. They ar
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by ramanujan 15y ago
The background here is that the SEC is currently seeking the power[0] to impose fines without judicial review: Even as Judge Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Manhattan rejected the Securities and Exchange Commission‘s pr
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Much of the commentary on seasteading is underinformed. It doesn't have to be "libertarian", as the concept can just as equally be used to build states for progressives, or North Korean refugees, or any displaced or oppressed people. The en
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by ramanujan 15y ago
The intranet search engine concept is interesting and will help this grow. Anyone know of anything else which is a search engine in a box, basically an open source competitor to the various Google Search Appliances?
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The FAA/TSA alway justify things in terms of "safety" and "security", but never calculate the massive costs associated with seizing billions in toiletries and productivity. Let's calculate that. There are about 800 million[0] passengers on
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Well, it's not just tu quoque. Relatively few people know that the NYT charges you for reprints when your company appears in a story: http://www.nytreprints.com/services/reprints/ Professional custom article reprints feature high-qua
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Which brings the Haggler to his latest million-dollar idea: a review site that reviews the review sites. It’s genius! Grade them all on trustworthiness, candor and so on. That's a great idea. Let's start with the New York
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Yes, for me personally caffeine and loud music also work. Didn't have a cite, which is why I removed it. But: next time I feel like procrastinating, might self-prescribe a Red Bull with vodka plus some music at 120bpm. Let's see what happen
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by ramanujan 15y ago
There was a recent highly cited paper describing the concept of willpower as a measurable, physiological, depletable quantity, strongly affected by glucose levels: http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~lchang/material/Evolutionary/Bra... And there
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Good question. In theory this is possible, and there are a number of biotechs and medical device companies that are looking overseas. Europe is the preferred place right now for traditional biotechs & medical device companies, as gettin
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Hmmm. My point is that innovation speeds up dramatically during wars, in part because the involvement of dot.mil organizations can supersede the regulations imposed by dot.govs. Taking your points in turn: 1. August 1939 in Nazi Germany was
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Look at the arms industry and you will see a similar pace of advancement - mostly due to the bottomless and nigh- unchallengeable defense spending of Uncle Sam. But I don't think you're really disagreeing here. The DoD is a lot
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by ramanujan 15y ago
It's absolutely true that risk aversion is not the only thing holding back drug trials. But it's definitely part of the problem. Think about insulin. In 1921 Banting and Best had the idea. It was in a patient's arm by 1922. And they won the
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Jared Diamond notwithstanding, WW2 led directly or indirectly to: 1. The atomic bomb 2. Jet aircraft 3. The digital computer 4. Modern rocketry And the Cold War gave rise to 1. The internet 2. The space program 3. The i
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The fundamental reason that most innovation has occurred in the computer/internet sector over the last 40-something years is that failure is acceptable in this sector. That is, when a computer or webapp crashes it's not the end of the world
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by ramanujan 15y ago
This is really very awesome. The keyboard shortcuts [1] are particularly well done and worth trying out. Just a really great version 1. Down the line, it'd be amazing to have some sort of Github/Github Enterprise integration and/or Salesfor
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Indeed. http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/andhra-pradesh/article25... A leading light of the Telangana Armed Struggle, a first generation communist leader and veteran trade unionist Raj Bahadur Gaur passed away here on Friday
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Worst parts of Lion over OS X: 1) Removed "Save As". You now have to duplicate and then save the file. 2) Smaller resize/minimize/"maximize" buttons. 3) The green maximize button still doesn't maximize. 4) Switched default behavior with mou
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This is a pretty good concrete example of why Kryder's law[1] and related laws are phenomenological observations rather than laws of nature. Good to cite in a slide deck if you need an explicit example of when exponential progress was stopp
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I usually don't do this, but this article is long. The summary (tl; dr) is as follows: 1) Large institutional long investments in a certain type of wheat future (Chicago soft red winter) started crowding out the real customers of physical w
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Relatively few people want to spend money on lobbyists, but when Washington or Sacramento changes the rules on you, what can you do? To remain silent might mean your business dies. To make your voice heard is to lobby. All right, then lobby
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At the time some said that the upstream cause of the Arab Spring was increased food prices. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/world/july-dec11/food_09... More controversially, some blamed this on the Fed's inflationary QE2 policy (print
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Ok, let's take a crack at this. 1) iPhone as remote: First, they would probably allow iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches to be used as remotes. That would be the recommended use case, and in fact they've already got this with the new iOS5 Air
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Hmmm? Generally agree with the plane flight example, but linear programming seems like a surprisingly bad example to pick. Karmarkar's algorithm has allowed the essential insight of linear programming to be generalized into a programme for
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Indeed. Not to criticize, though, but the underlying premise that industrial scale "charity" is necessarily good deserves a critical reassessment. Investment works and turns countries and companies into net producers. That's the story of co

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