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Hidden Cobra – North Korean Cyberwarfare(us-cert.gov)
1 points by rrggrr 9y ago|0 comments
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Relax sparky. The chart demonstrates the decline only. Don't go looking to government to praise the private sector or free market solutions when their budget depends entirely on the opposite being true. At 40,000 inspections/yr it
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by rrggrr 9y ago
FACT: products liability law reduced accidental deaths in the workplace. (source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4822a1.htm ) There is no reason similar laws wouldn't work for consumers priva
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by rrggrr 9y ago
> When attacked [In Chess] he seldom, if ever, defended his position, rather he attacked back. Such a method of playing soon produces a very interrelated board. A truly brilliant former close acquaintance of mine plays an usual game of c
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by rrggrr 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness Lost major supplier responsible for about 1/2 our gross profit at about the same time our broad market entered recession, two key employees were mired in divorce
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Household debt should be measured against household income and not against GDP.
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Quicklinks had context within the active window.
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Google Kills Gmail Quicklinks
5 points by rrggrr 9y ago|3 comments
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by rrggrr 9y ago
1. Health Insurance 2. Marketing & Advertising. 3. Rent. 4. Employer Share of Payroll Taxes. 5. Other Insurance (eg. Workman's comp, General liability, etc.) 6. IT (Including AWS). 7. Legal & Accounting.
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Excellent comparison. China's current economic and environmental woes are a good example of what 'progress at all costs' outcomes look like. There ought to be a public debate about this and what costs are acceptable.
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I'm told the metal powders are still more expensive than equivalent traditional materials, and that in some cases (Ti) can be explosive. Anyone know what the real economics are in terms of materials and energy costs?
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Manufactured products are generally safe because the economic costs of shipping unsafe products is too high. Legal fees, litigation, products liability insurance, judgement costs, UL certifications, OSHA compliance and inspection costs, etc
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Extensions are tipping in favor of Chrome. Many of the extensions I use are Chrome only.
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Historically, rates above 200% (eg. Argentina) lead to disorderly corrections (crisis). Michael Pettis regarding the research you cite states: "What is usually missing from such discussions, however, is an explanation of how too much
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Nope. Add household debt, state debt and obligations, muni debt... its a sinkhole.
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There's nothing ideological in saying this isn't sustainable: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN
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Debt suppresses growth above 85% of GDP. At current levels it reduces net purchasing power. It depletes tangible foreign reserves. It causes legislative gridlock. It distorts the Federal Reserve's balance sheet. It also doesn't si
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/...
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by rrggrr 9y ago
70% of the US budget is inexorably allocated to entitlements, interest on debt, and welfare. The rubicon of 100% US Debt-to GDP will soon be crossed. Many US states are hanging on to solvency by a thread. Corporations and banks have sequest
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I'm confused. There are about 40,000 known species of vertebrate. There were 18,000 NEW species of life in general discovered in 2016 alone ( http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-new-spec... ). I
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I'm confused. There are about 40,000 known species of vertebrate. There were 18,000 NEW species of life in general discovered in 2016 alone ( http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-new-spec... ). I
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by rrggrr 9y ago
MIXMAX. It adds many great features to Gmail. Its too expensive, its pushing too hard to integrate with Salesforce, its probably too dependent on Gmail. But, all that said, I really cannot live without it. The founder Olof is a genius.
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> Every day he [Trump] remains in office, civil servants have to ask themselves if political appointees are being given their positions due to merit, or to personal loyalty to Trump, or someone else in the Administration. Sounds like it
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Ask HN: Will anything ever truly integrate and replace email&chat?
1 points by rrggrr 9y ago|1 comments
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Makes me think of Kevin Kelly ( http://kk.org ). His 1994 book Out of Control, read retrospectively, has held up better than any other prognostication I can think of concerning the nexus of business and technology. Neal Stephenson
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>Even if there was standing, the plaintiffs did not establish that they would “suffer harm or prejudice in a manner that cannot be corrected on appeal.” “They also fail to show that they lack an adequate remedy at law, as they may move f
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US small businesses, collectively, are the largest employer of US citizens, especially at the margins of society where the author's "right to say no" is at its weakest. Its these small businesses, trying to accumulate wealth
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Okay, so research the author to better understand the context. He rejects the Hobbesian ideal that a social contract, enforced by a central power, provides critical scaffolding upon which wealth and prosperity can exist in a society. On thi
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I'm not mixing anything together. The intellectual property, real property or personal property you are referring to is the product of all the risks and costs I'm talking about. And, the rent-seeking from that property is the rewa
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You are wrong. The author is very much concerned about the employer-employee relationship. Not only did I read the article, I also read the OPs bio and glanced at his philosophy toward property rights. He appears to have come to the conclus

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