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by stvswn 11y ago
"If only the plan worked as intended! We were close!" -- the same refrain after every single failed socialist endeavor. But in this case we had the smartest people study the problem! Economists from the top universities designed
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Where in the link does it say that?
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What I want to know is, how much does it cost to provide that service to you? Not how much do you pay, but how much does it cost? If it's greater than $100 a month (how could it be less?), then someone is paying. What portion of Can
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by stvswn 11y ago
It's was pretty easy to predict: allowing enrollment after a diagnosis was politically popular but a terrible economic disincentive to not buy insurance (because at that point, it isn't insurance -- it's a subscription plan f
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When a little bit of socialism fails, why is the answer always more socialism?
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Risk adjustment is definitely appropriate, but I think the author is being conservative even with this in mind. You're right that "Senior" is still mid-level, but the author is being conservative. The reality at a healthy, pr
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Sure it is.
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So you stopped investing in Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple? Each has formally hired MBAs for years. Google just promoted one to CEO. I assume you're calling the top of each of these companies? How have they managed the MBA deat
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Why is it that every couple of weeks the tech world has to re-adjudicate the MBA argument? Is it just a fun debate? Why do so many people care about other people's degrees? I have an MBA, I normally go around saying it doesn't m
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Haha cracking up over here. I went to West Point, was an officer, got an MBA and now I work at a big tech company. I must really suck.
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Fiduciary duty applies to all agents acting on the behalf of principals, all the time. If an agent were to honestly believe that it was in the best interests of shareholders (financially) to keep Yahoo! jobs, it would be fine for him to vo
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by stvswn 11y ago
Fiduciary duty is in fact a legal duty, and it requires that agents act solely in the best interests of their principals. I have no idea what value investing has to do with this concept.
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I agree generally, but I don't think it's inconsistent from the investors' points of view. They could have hired her with hopes for a renaissance and then just lost patience. Mayer's performance might have disappointed
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It does matter that we gave up five Taliban commanders for him, if you're interested in winning the war. The president should have weighed the costs and benefits -- among the costs could be this wacky idea that soldiers will abandon
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I remember well. The Iraq Resolution had resounding support among the public, as well. One act of bipartisanship doesn't prove your point -- but I suspect that "we were capitulating to the Bush administration" is a better p
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If you're advocating that the hedge fund managers and pension funds accept a smaller return on investment in order to save Yahoo! engineers from layoffs -- that's a breach of fiduciary duty and against the law.
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Which is their right. Investors own the business. If you don't want to lose control, don't sell voting rights for money.
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I don't remember George W. Bush being given credit for anything by Democrats. The "Republicans are obstructionists" argument is just so silly. The argument against Obama is that he was eager to empty Gitmo of the most danger
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Nothing there surprises me -- some of it is just the kind of bitching soldiers do (like complaining that everyone has to stop what they're doing to look for a rifle, or complaining that NTC was hot, or that the 1SG is nuts and mean and
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No, I think he was attributing potential future deaths to poor leadership -- at the time of his capture, only one soldier in his larger unit (battalion level) had died -- 1LT Brian Bradshaw. This wasn't in his platoon or company.
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I was a platoon leader in the same era and same type of unit with similar experiences as Bergdahl's unit -- although I have no specific knowledge about his story beyond what I've read in the news. My perspective: he's lying l
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"One could say that, in theory, these needs and roles could be satisfied in a completely marketized society—but we have seen that they are not. Indeed, as amply documented in 2001 (following the collapse of Enron) and 2008 (following t
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They do not require a doctorate in nursing -- it's a masters degree. ("MSN-NP")
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I did reply. And I have no cognitive dissonance, just moral clarity.
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It's not simply anecdotal about me and my conduct. It's a firm knowledge of the U.S. military's internal policies and controls. As for that video -- I wasn't sure it's one that I had seen, so I watched it again. I
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by stvswn 11y ago
You equate "they felt terrorized" with "terrorism." Terrorism is the deliberate targeting of civilians in order to cause fear for political ends. It's not "civilians being scared" and definitely not &quo
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What would be bad about donating to a right wing organization?
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If we were to grant your premise that GMU is a conservative university -- why the hell would that matter? What argument are you trying to make?
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"Indescriminately(sic) bombing?" "conducting terrorism?" I led a platoon in Iraq, and we did nothing of the sort. I'm fine with opposition to U.S. foreign policy; this is just lazy slander, and it shows a very shall
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This is a naive viewpoint masquerading as cynicism. There exist sane true-believers. The puppet-masters are true-believers, as well. It might be more uncomfortable to accept this fact -- but it is a fundamental truth that people out ther

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