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by shawnee_ 15y ago
This is a tough one. Obviously, as more people start driving electric cars, hybrids, and more efficient gasoline vehicles, the revenue from the "gasoline tax" will be decreased. But they seem to be attacking the wrong side of the equation:
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Pay by the mile? More states considering pay-by-the-mile car taxes(thedetroitbureau.com)
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This is just plain disturbing (also, does not require a bunch of clicking) http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the...
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Television content distribution has historically been push model marketing. One problem was that nobody ever really "knew" with any measurable degree of accuracy how many people were actually watching any given show. Nielsen ratings (and
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Berkeley entrepreneur's backyard solution to urban planning(newscenter.berkeley.edu)
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Really surprised that nothing by Michael Crichton is on that list. Semi-related: I am somewhat annoyed by the tendency to categorize SciFi with Fantasy. They are completely different genres. SciFi I love because it is usually at least a
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
ESFP
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
A little bit of a shame that the insurance industry is going to bank on this. The article doesn't state specifically, but some kind of complex underwriting has to be going on. Interesting, tangentially related: 'Insurance' is the most expe
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
The headline is a bit too much, even for TechCrunch. EJ is not "homeless". She almost certainly has never been homeless and will never be homeless; this is an insult to people who have been homeless, broke, and literally have nowhere to
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
There are only two things that a company can do with its profit: 1. Invest the proceeds back into the company. 2. Pay profits out to the shareholders. That is it. These days, companies tend to do more of #1 and less of #2 -- they define "
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
.. also works; this is the first I've seen of ... for a numerical range find, which is VERY useful for date searches. A couple years ago, I gave a lesson to a class of mostly senior citizens for how to use Google to do genea
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Yelp. The only site I block, as of about a week ago: http://bit.ly/odVtMg Background: Had an account since April 2007, had reviews removed, last month had my account deleted without notice or warning. I emailed asking for a reason, but
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Socrates wouldn't trust the Web. (bigthink.com)
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There's a great slide from my "Taxes for Hax0rs" (SHDH 44) presentation http://www.transparentaccounting.org regarding the history of the Federal Income Tax. In a nutshell, the way it was originally written was meant to tax corporate in
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Good points, but default is not the automatic consequence of failing to raise the debt ceiling. The issue is just creating more noise and static that distracts from the core issues that the GOP doesn't want people to notice: that the GOP w
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Comcast's primary goal right now is to prevent a raising of the debt ceiling. Once this is done it will be much easier for the FCC to be eviscerated and destroyed -- or at the very least, maimed. With that pesky FCC out of the way, Comcas
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Amid Stacks of Paper, ‘E-Court’ Is Finally in Session(nytimes.com)
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
While we're on the topic, I'm just going to say that those "anonymous" job postings here on YC drive me nuts "YCW11 company hiring front end dev! New office space! We <3 Django! Fridge stocked w/beer! " There are a only couple YC com
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Paydirt in the mud of the Pacific(inventorspot.com)
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Pay for execs at big companies rose 23% 2009 - 2010(nytimes.com)
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Supreme Court: Video games qualify for First Amendment protection(techland.time.com)
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
It's not the food industry that needs disrupted; it's the real estate industry. The small ethnic dining establishments operated by first or second generation immigrants tend to be easy targets for real estate scum. The landlords suck up a
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States join Google anti-trust probe by FTC(ft.com)
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
So $185k buys what essentially amounts to the right to "broker" a gTLD suffix. This is building into the system a prohibitively high barrier to entry, which almost guarantees that the interests of the conglomerates will once again trump th
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
It could probably be rationally argued that cartel behavior is as destructive as (or more destructive than) monopoly behavior in a capitalistic economic system. In a monopolistic situation there's almost always incentive for those "outside"
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
There's a decent mix of dev/design talent on Forrst
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US Dept of Education releases weakened 'gainful employment' rules(youthtoday.org)
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Best part of the article is at the end: Will Google be going commercial? Page has no opposition to it, but said there's no particular hurry. "We're Ph.D. students, we can do whatever we want," he said. And what they want is to find the rig
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Ubiquity was awesome; I hope it makes a comeback soon. It was/is headed in the right direction as far as the future of the "minimal" browser goes. Instead of telling the browser "where we want to go," (go to URL) we'll tell it "what we wan
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
LinkedIn was smart to go public before Facebook. However, $8B for what essentially amounts to a glorified harassment tool for recruiters is a bit ludicrous.

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