stretchwithme

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by stretchwithme 17y ago
instead of asking why Africa's conflicts never end, ask why there is peace on the others. Europe and Asia are perhaps more stable today than they have ever been in most centuries. Could the reason be that a particular economic system that
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
perhaps he means classical liberalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
the US's advantage is not that people are self employed. it is that one can start a business and grow it rapidly (or slowly and steadily), eventually hiring a lot of people and/or creating efficiencies for those using the product or servic
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
and they are utterly failing to prevent with medicare. so I don't see how magically they will solve all these problems if they can't even manage what they are already responsible for. 15% of medicare spending is lost to fraud apparently.
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
I wish there were an idiot mode for unix that would tell you exactly what the command you just entered is going to do. I'd be turning it on all the time when using commands I rarely use. It would be nice to know I'm about to do something t
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
he he. good one, paulster
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
Fish oil helps my mood too. You may want to be make sure that the fish oil is molecularly distilled to minimize your exposure to mercury and PCBs.
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
I think you see things very clearly. Such is the quagmire of a declining democracy where most people are intent on shifting the costs of their decisions to everybody else.
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
If you want to see how successful government health care will be, look at Medicare. Its a great example of how the true costs of things, low quality and large amount of fraud can be overlooked for decades. The main objective is punishing t
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
one more illusion dismissed
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
so many people follow the crowd that any time someone doesn't, the crowd assumes there's some ulterior motive. I wish people would recognize that it is oppression that is wrong and not the latest form of oppression to be declared politicall
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
Cloudomatic looks great. startup weekend with multiple teams seems so much better and more productive than the original version, which was simply chaos the first time in sf. there were literally dozens of developers all going their own way
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
yeah, status is very interesting. understanding how it works is real power. we actually tell each other where we think we rank and lower-status-thinking people usually submit first
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by stretchwithme 17y ago
In my experience, when I am working with others or for a customer, I have no problem taking the actions needed to deliver on my commitments to them. But when I am working on my own thing, setting my own goals, with little interaction, I ten