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by temphn 13y ago
This article fundamentally misunderstands what profits mean in a financial statement. "Record profits" are recorded because companies are afraid to expand. They expect a macroeconomic contraction. Remember: profits aren't inc
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by temphn 13y ago
A paper can resist government regulation, but a normal business cannot (or could not in 2010). Bezos is philosophically an opponent of government regulation[1] and may have bought the Washington Post simply because he hated backing down in
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by temphn 13y ago
> Is it just me or would the material strength of 3D printed items have to become exponentially better for them to become a success for any kind of serious use? Well, right now with today's technology you can 3D print multishot guns
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by temphn 13y ago
You can't run an airline that is free to exclude any passenger at will. TSA pre-check is based on the fallacious inference that rich frequent flyers and terrorists are a distinct set. Saudi royal-funded operatives may well be more like
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by temphn 13y ago
> I trust the city government to keep the neighboring landlord from turning his apartment buiding into a ghetto hotel without the proper noise-mitigation measures, more than I trust AirBnB to do it. You do? Section 8 ring a bell? Many mo
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by temphn 13y ago
Cool man. Thanks for being civil as I was probably too heated in my response. I'd say that many regulations, like many political policies, sound good in the abstract. But the devil is in the details. It's the execution, not the id
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by temphn 13y ago
> And no, saying your K-nearest neighbor algorithm's got it covered is not going to be enough. This is sheer assertion. What do you think is better? Uber - where you can see your driver's name and photo, know that he has a five
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by temphn 13y ago
But of course they are, or more general the web of DHS/TSA/FAA/etc. regulations is the reason why commercial air travel has not advanced in door-to-door speed. Without the regulations you could imagine an airport that pre-scr
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by temphn 13y ago
If they didn't vet, people wouldn't use the service. And the government demonstrably does not do a better job of vetting than private individuals. Some examples: has lower quality employees, it makes it impossible to "discrim
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by temphn 13y ago
This is a bit comical. Brin, Zuckerberg, and Page don't have the "experience" that JWZ does? I think your statement can only hold if you define "veteran" on the basis of sheer age. I think JWZ would be the first to
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by temphn 13y ago
Interesting thought experiment, but I think the case can be made that the software industry has already dealt with this. 1. Matlab and other expensive per-seat licenses are indeed shared, and there are license managers available 2. Other SA
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by temphn 13y ago
http://jontaplin.com/2008/03/11/eliot-spitzer-the-nsa/ "I’ve been tough on Spitzer, but we can’t forget that the reason he got in trouble was because of the new NSA domestic surveillance apparatus t
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by temphn 13y ago
The numbers are quite different. Detroit is 82.7% black, while Atlanta is 54% black: http://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/atlanta_ga/detroit_... Numbers matter. Political control and on-the-ground police haven
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by temphn 13y ago
OP is being polite. Obviously the point is that Maureen O'Connor's problems have very little to do with Facebook's usability and very much to do with Xing with 36 guys, where "X" rises to Maureen's internal thr
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by temphn 13y ago
You're so hostile that you kick the ball into your own net. My question was whether LME was free to "change" the rule by abolishing it, or whether this was related to an underlying CFTC compliance issue. Because trying to i
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by temphn 13y ago
You prompted me to dig in further to see what the source of the underlying distortionary rule is. Looks like the LME or London Metal Exchange[1]. But that in turn is governed by the government[2]. And the government, including the CFTC whic
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by temphn 13y ago
No one can "fix" Detroit because no one can even discuss the reasons why Detroit is Detroit. It's not Democrats (Seattle and the Bay Area are fine). It's not big companies (there do happen to be auto plants in other area
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by temphn 13y ago
An alternate hypothesis by Stephen Thomas of Harvard Medical School is that medicine has been getting so good that many crimes that would have been murders in a previous era are becoming attempted murders. http://people.wku.edu&#
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by temphn 13y ago
The only way that Goldman could possibly make more money by artificially delaying shipments would be because of a market-distorting regulation. And sure enough, here it is: industry rules require that all that metal cannot simply s
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by temphn 13y ago
I'm thinking that the US Government would have a much harder time prosecuting a high-profile, wealthy CEO http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a... "Only One Big Telecom CEO R
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by temphn 13y ago
You didn't just say that it was not relevant (wrong as that might be). You denied intent, denied that it was purposeful.
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by temphn 13y ago
Even if you believe Nissen, the actual increase in risk was from .3 to .6%, and people who were denied Vioxx still want it back. An arthritis drug that vastly improves my life with probability 1 while maybe shortening it with some small pro
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by temphn 13y ago
It was a Holocaust - millions died - and you did deny it ("didn't intentionally set out to kill people...a bad system...history is quite complicated"). Zero hyperbole involved. Exactly the same weasely language as you'd
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by temphn 13y ago
There is another important bit here, which is to think of it in terms of individuals rather than startups. The companies that get big (FB, Twitter, Google) hired hundreds or thousands of people before IPO'ing. AirBnB, Dropbox, Uber, an
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by temphn 13y ago
> I'm no expert but, first of all, the peasants who died weren't a different ethnic group or a social class antagonistic to Mao http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign The Hundred Flowe
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by temphn 13y ago
“Imagine, if you will, someone who read only Reader’s Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman. Which reader would have been better informed about the reali
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by temphn 13y ago
I think we need to mention the sins of Mao quite a bit more before we're in danger of Godwining. You know some history. Most people who are reading that Atlantic article don't have this context at all. This is because people get t
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by temphn 13y ago
Hard as it may be to imagine, there are things that are more important than whether someone said something nice once about the US civil rights movement - such as hundreds of millions of Chinese lives. The USA is not the center of the world
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by temphn 13y ago
never mind the damage Mao inflicted on the country. China became more materialistic, less ideological, less idealistic. "Never mind" the damage Mao inflicted? 65 million people died during his reign. Post-Mao China
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by temphn 13y ago
This author has an incredibly solipsistic worldview: Mao issued another statement of support in April 1968 after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But despite these expressions of support, there is scant evidence to

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