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by rw 18y ago
OK so look up income-insensitive goods.
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by rw 18y ago
This is an awesome blog - read some of the other posts.
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by rw 18y ago
Search for "inferior good".
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by rw 18y ago
Does Glassfloor only survey white-collar jobs?
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by rw 18y ago
How does this (and TextMate) compare to vim and Emacs?
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by rw 18y ago
I'm in SW Ohio, you? I do not think there are many Ohioans on HN, and we ought to find each other!
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by rw 18y ago
Steve, I'm sorry, but the universe may not be a Von Neumann architecture!
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by rw 18y ago
The one that bothers me is "better". The reason it bothers me is because that type of American exceptionalism is very close to nationalism, which, in turn, works to build mental walls of ethnocentrism and classism.
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by rw 18y ago
> the belief that the United States differs qualitatively from other developed nations, Is that belief that the United States is better , or just different?
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by rw 18y ago
Could you precisely define what you mean by "American exceptionalism"? I'm not getting what you're saying.
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by rw 18y ago
If you were born elsewhere, and could never get to America, would you be fine with American exceptionalism?
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by rw 18y ago
Note that patriotism can also take on a worldly, cosmopolitan and peaceful interpretation, if you want it to.
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by rw 18y ago
What is your opinion of the Polywell? Its proponents claim it will be much cheaper than your 35 billion plant.
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by rw 18y ago
Look up excludable and rivalrous . They help describe the problem patent laws attempt to solve. Here, I'll do it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_ (economics)
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by rw 18y ago
If you "just want to code" then you fail. The reason to hack is to build, explore and fulfill your passions. From "the one in London"'s website: "The London Hacklabs Collective is a group of people interested in using technology to bring
526.
by rw 18y ago
What was this?
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by rw 18y ago
... + Linkbait
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by rw 18y ago
Article is from Summer 2007.
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by rw 18y ago
What we have in the U.S. is not democracy (literally, "rule by the people"). We have, instead, a quasi-accountable tyranny of politicos and lobbyists. Do not call that democracy .
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by rw 18y ago
Civilization is possible because we redistribute our lessons learned from experience.
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by rw 18y ago
I picked arbitrarily between all of the choices; do you guys have any informed guesses as to when we will see recovery?
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by rw 18y ago
In what way(s) is Ioke superior to, say, PLT Scheme or Clojure?
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by rw 18y ago
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534.
by rw 18y ago
Well adsense and wozad both do not work without Javascript...
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by rw 18y ago
You said: Presumably if there were a free market in ISPs, this wouldn't work. You might have wanted to say "competitive market" or "perfectly competitive market", not "free market". A free market is one in which laissez-faire is the only
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by rw 18y ago
Did they fail to hire him?
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by rw 18y ago
I am qualified, but I happen to be majoring in Economics. Why do you care about the degree?
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by rw 18y ago
Dani: There are a number of papers discussing the emergence of a "global superbrain". You might be interested in the work of Francis Heylighen and the ECCO group at the VUB (Brussels).
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by rw 18y ago
Paul said: History suggests that, all other things being equal, a society prospers in proportion to its ability to prevent parents from influencing their children's success directly. I am studying development policies and growth economics
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by rw 18y ago
Try searching any question like this with "X for Y programmers". Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22java+for+php%22+programmer... These results aren't as good as some, such as "Java for Lisp programmers". It's a useful heuristic,

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