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by rrggrr 9y ago
Keep in-mind this household debt is above and beyond each household's share of their municipal, county, state and federal debt. If you live in LA County, CA: - about $4,200 in State Debt. - roughly another $4,000 or in LA County debt.
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Not having to pump gas in the freezing cold. I don't need any other reason to drive an EV. Not this one in particular: >“The electric drive-train is so much more powerful. The gasoline and diesel cars cannot possibly compete,” Seba
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by rrggrr 9y ago
None of this is what the article is about. The article, as it relates to your comment, is about imbalances in GDP growth between the developed and almost-developed world, and how the expected upside for the developed world hasn't mater
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by rrggrr 9y ago
> innovation is the true source of value. Nations that are more innovative will ultimately prevail. Really? Because the upside (spread) for innovation and productivity gains is much higher for developing nations (eg. China) than it is fo
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Its not. Gucci? BMW? Sony? Smirnoff? But brands don't deliver employment... manufacturing does.
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Manufacturing employs people, not brand value. How many ad agencies do you think Nike needs? You are tragically ill informed.
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Most serious issue facing the US - period. Why? Because without economic growth, serious economic growth, the near insurmountable entitlement debts facing Municipalities, States and the Federal Government will result in massive tax increase
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Police militarization is the not the non sequitur many believe it to be. The top two spenders on military hardware are US border states fighting very well armed drug gangs, and episodically its own well armed populace. Chicago is in Cook Co
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Underfunded State pensions are an even bigger problem. Insurmountable actually.
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“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change." - Milton Friedman Age 45 and up comprises the smallest number of HN readers, the largest number of Americans, the largest quantity of American voters, and the greatest conce
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Why publish this and not public the code they used to interface with MonkeyLearns API? Missed opportunity.
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Fault will be leveled against Bitcoin for facilitating the ransom, against Microsoft, against NHS budget underfunding... everywhere EXCEPT where the blame belongs. Products liability law applied to IT security would put a quick end to most
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by rrggrr 9y ago
>“I’ve lost everything, my career and everything,” he said in a message circulating online. “I think many people misunderstand me. I’m fighting fraudulence, but now I’ve become the target.” Its often the same for INFOSEC researchers and
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by rrggrr 9y ago
No. She ran a fund of funds.
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A hedge fund manager once told me: "The only free lunch in my business is diversification". Her fund imploded three years later. There is no free lunch and portfolio theory is an inadequate hedge against theta decay and mean rever
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Title 28 (CFR), Chapter VI, Part 600 Specific allegations of criminal behavior by the President require a special prosecutor, or they require a finding of no merit. As Sessions has already recused himself, the deputy AG makes the finding. A
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by rrggrr 9y ago
It was never getting shut down. This story is never going away. Regardless of the veracity - and I'm not taking sides - the alternative to the Russia narrative isn't up for discussion. HRC, etc. will never answer for having lost a
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by rrggrr 9y ago
I have to agree with this, and I want to believe that was the needle Comey was threading. I am concerned, however, that his tone in the last hearing (eg. "mildly nauseous", Abedin email forwarding mistakes, immigrant investigation
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Comey's book deal is going to be enormous. His great, great, great grandchildren will be buying Maserati's with the proceeds. He just needs to withstand another six months of testifying on the hill in front of at least two standin
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by rrggrr 9y ago
> But has all of this made us safer? This is the key takeaway from the article. Most of the expense isn't making anyone safer, and the advantage is held by the aggressor who only has to be successful once to inflict unpalatable phys
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Emergency Declared at Hanford Nuclear Plant: Tunnel Collapse(washingtonpost.com)
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by rrggrr 9y ago
This was the direction I expected Apple to take prior to Jobs passing. It seemed the rumored Apple TV would combine Siri with traditional television. Apple faces serious threats across the entertainment spectrum, from content to device. Eve
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by rrggrr 9y ago
This is correct. The goal is not to elect La Penne.
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> As is typical, decisions by politicians placed us in this situation. Decade after decade, 4-year term after 4-year term, the government has spent money it does not have. Every time every one of us votes for any politician who favors an
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Money isn't a mechanism for the exchange of sovereign assets anymore. That role has been supplanted by debt. You wouldn't cash in your USD anymore than you would trade in your car because petrol prices have fallen. You might cas
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This is AWESOME. The type ahead support is terrific.
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1. Sweeping funds from one account to another based on business events. 2. Fraud detection. 3. Real-time reporting.
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The most likely leaker to Wikileaks? The CIA itself. Its tools already compromised, perhaps by Russia or by someone internal, the sensible thing to do is to leak the exploits in such a way that: (a) they can be patched and rendered largely
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Perhaps the US might not act as NK regime tries to overrun SK. This would force China and Russsia to support SK to prevent unificAtion. The economic and political consequences of a unified Korea are contrary to its neighboors interests, but
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Author has an agenda. He's piggy backing on NYT piece the other day. Timing is interesting with correspondent's dinner fast approaching.

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