scottkduncan

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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Of course the innovation curve has been steep on broadband over the last fifteen years when compared with legacies like electricity and water. It could have been much better though, and many other developed countries have faster broadband
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Dividing and Conquering the Trash(nytimes.com)
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
The difference between the two examples you cited and the one from the article is that both condos and education are investments that are likely to have a positive ROI, whereas renting a couch and taking on debt for other day-to-day necessi
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New Office Flashpoint: Who Gets the Conference Room?(online.wsj.com)
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The Best Places to Find a Mate (Who Has a Job)(nytimes.com)
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Most gun deaths in the U.S. are not accidents, they are suicides. Then homicides, then accidents. And I'm not proposing banning guns, I'm challenging the commonly-held narrative that guns "keep us safe." The statistics
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
What a ridiculous article. Yes, in the context of rapidly declining crime rates of all kinds, gun homicides are down. And yet it's the specter of omnipresent crime that many Americans hold up as the reason we need guns to keep us safe
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Keep in mind that fatal car accidents still far outweigh homicides and that sexual assault - whether you are in suburbs or the cities - are far more likely to be perpetrated by acquaintances than strangers lurking in alleys.
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Or you know, not allowing more consolidation in the cable industry.
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Comcast Response To Netflix's Opposition To Time Warner Cable Transaction(corporate.comcast.com)
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A Non-Techie Tries to Build a Tech Company(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by scottkduncan 13y ago
Not that this is the best place to hash out a buy vs. rent argument (the answer of course is, it depends), but there are loads of uncertainties associated with buying. How high will my property taxes go? Will the market where I am go up o
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by scottkduncan 13y ago
Do you see the overall demand profile for self-storage changing accordingly, i.e. it could be headed for a secular decline because younger demographics don't accumulate as many physical items? When I was brainstorming startup ideas onc
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Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job(time.com)
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Meet the Company that Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter'(theatlantic.com)
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by scottkduncan 13y ago
It is in fact the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Railroad Station that Amtrak trains arrive in.
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Comcast Mulls Time Warner Cable Acquisition(venturebeat.com)
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Former NSA Chief on XKEYSCORE: It's Real, and It's Spectacular(slate.com)
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For Medical Tourists, Simple Math(nytimes.com)
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Russia enacted its own SOPA the day it granted Snowden asylum(washingtonpost.com)
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How "One Weird Trick" Conquered the Internet(mobile.slate.com)
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Google is spending half of Apple’s annual marketing budget promoting Moto-X(qz.com)
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by scottkduncan 13y ago
Great comment. As someone who works for the U.S. government (all opinions here are my own!), one of the most frustrating things about working there is the extreme sense of risk aversion in trying new things. If you stick to the status quo
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Google's Washington Insider(nytimes.com)
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Mitt Romney Inc.: The White House That Never Was(swampland.time.com)
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Find Your Color Scheme(colourco.de)
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by scottkduncan 13y ago
Just to be clear, it was a terrible joke. :)
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by scottkduncan 13y ago
"It was with this in mind that I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin', a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce." I'm going to need at least a 50%-off coupon
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Why High Schools Should Treat Programming Like Algebra(theatlantic.com)
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The Revolution Will Be Forked(github.com)
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