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If Greed Is Good, Why Is Insider Trading Bad?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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How Gangs Took Over Prisons(theatlantic.com)
6 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway344 12y ago
Is there a source that you have on that? I typically use city-data for that sort of thing, and their page doesn't tell the same story. http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Santa-Cruz-California.h... While theft an
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by throwaway344 12y ago
There has been a previous discussion, if interested, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7291008
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The Facebook Experience Without a Like Button(theatlantic.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway344 12y ago
I would be curious to see your source on that, beyond Eurocentric racism.
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by throwaway344 12y ago
http://www.canistream.it/ seems to work for me.
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The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)(worrydream.com)
47 points by throwaway344 12y ago|10 comments
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by throwaway344 12y ago
Yeah, further European integration is really good for separatist politicians all over Europe, from Veneno to Scotland to Catalonia to wherever. As Artur Mas, current leader of the goverment of Catalonia said: "I think that the right an
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by throwaway344 12y ago
Ah, sorry, I was misunderstanding the rules. Thanks!
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by throwaway344 12y ago
Someone would only pay taxes on the stocks if they sold it, via capital gains. If they're just being taxed on income, they can use that income to pay their taxes. Or am I misunderstanding you?
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by throwaway344 12y ago
Wealth of Nations is old, all the way back from 1776, but many of its simple points on the nature of capitalism still ring true today. It predates the math-ification of economics, so it remains reasonably accessible to the lay-man (if I can
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by throwaway344 12y ago
I think that the obsession with "doing well" is by no means an exclusively American trait. Just look at the Indian obsession with IIT-JEE, or Koreans with the CSAT, or the English with A-levels, or the French with the bac. America
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We should ban the phrase "thread safe"(blog.paranoidcoding.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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Is College Really Harder to Get Into Than It Used To Be?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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A Timeline of the Great Lime Shortage(modernfarmer.com)
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by throwaway344 12y ago
In general, I think the average human being provides some good for the world. If nothing else, the average person in most[1] of the world can vote, hopefully on average stabilizing the political system. [2] They also act as an allocator for
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by throwaway344 12y ago
This is in the Million Next Door, kind of theme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door
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Will Europe Censor This Article?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway344 12y ago
Is this because of the lack of diversity in Finland, or what?
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by throwaway344 12y ago
One of my all-time favorite programming books, about Smalltalk, is Smalltalk-80. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201113716/ That may be interest to those who want to investigate more.
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Spark – A Java Web Microframework(sparkjava.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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Programming with Nothing (2011)(codon.com)
59 points by throwaway344 12y ago|10 comments
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by throwaway344 12y ago
My theory would be that people of all ages who don't know much about computers will always say slightly odd things about computers. I think this is the same phenomenon as when people say that their OS is Dell, or that they user Interne
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Run, Joe, Run: Why Democrats Need a Biden Candidacy(theatlantic.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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Report: Journalists Are Miserable, Liberal, Over-Educated(theatlantic.com)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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Opium – A Sinatra-like Framework for OCaml(rgrinberg.com)
3 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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Groovy 2.3 Released(infoq.com)
3 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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Babel Programming Language(babelscript.net)
1 points by throwaway344 12y ago|0 comments
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L++ Language(bitbucket.org)
86 points by throwaway344 12y ago|39 comments

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