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Uncle Sam, Venture Capitalist(online.wsj.com)
3 points by uuilly 16y ago|0 comments
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by uuilly 16y ago
"Gridlock is not an American problem, it is an American achievement! When James Madison and 54 other geniuses went to Philadelphia in the sweltering summer of 1787, they did not go there to design an efficient government. That idea would ha
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by uuilly 16y ago
As near as I can tell it makes 14 y/o girls happy. I can wrap my head around a lot of small companies going big, but I never could find a way to rationalize the hype behind slide.
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by uuilly 16y ago
"You should tell your coder friends that you are a designer and your designer friends that you are a coder."
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by uuilly 16y ago
Sowell quotes him heavily.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Love it. I've been reading a bunch of Thomas Sowell recently. That seems like it could be straight out of "A Conflict of Visions."
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by uuilly 16y ago
Economics: The study of the distribution of scarce resources with alternative uses. It would be great if more people knew that.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Schmidt makes great arguments for why government should not meddle with newspapers. Unfortunately the same arguments could be made to say government should not meddle w/ ISP's who charge web services for premium pipes.
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by uuilly 16y ago
It's mostly minorities demanding, and benefiting from School Choice. If it's segregation, it has a funny way of showing it.
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by uuilly 16y ago
A far as telepresence for Chinese / Indian factories goes, wouldn't it be cheaper / less awkward to hire a guy to walk around w/a laptop running iChat / google voice-vid? Labor in those countries is practically free.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Yes. I actually stopped reading "news" and I only read people's opinions. Opinions are much more concise and it's far more informative to read two opposing opinions than to read one long meandering piece that tries to avoid having an opin
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by uuilly 16y ago
The teachers unions hate school choice. They managed to kill the program in DC even though parents were really happy with the results.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Congrats Immad. To other HN'ers looking for a job talk to this guy. Besides technical expertise, he has a very crisp notion of what HeyZap is and is not and why. It's not surprising that they were able to raise this much money.
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Yahoo CEO vs. Arrington [VID](insignificantthoughts.com)
2 points by uuilly 16y ago|0 comments
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by uuilly 16y ago
I didn't down-vote you but I was talking about the raw statistics used as input to the visualization engine. I had assumed you wanted to build some data-visualization software and was pointing out the places to get stats.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Many places. World Bank, Census, IMF etc. Do a text search on this page: http://uuorld.com/portal/ for "set:" Each set is free from its source but they require lots of tedious massaging to reformat.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Thx. Me and http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=martian wrote the software to make it. Martian made that particular map.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Yup: http://uuorld.com/gallery?image=89
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by uuilly 16y ago
Didn't know about it. The stuff will be there until tomorrow.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Our company moved into a larger office and threw a bunch of furniture away. There are a number of great desks and some chairs. Just come and pick it up. Location: http://bit.ly/cx4jkM
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Free Office Furniture in Berkeley - Very Solid(dl.dropbox.com)
2 points by uuilly 16y ago|4 comments
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by uuilly 16y ago
Looks like he's also in an upcoming documentary about the broken US public school system: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/waiting... Some of those scenes are from the lottery to get into the DC voucher program. DC is
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by uuilly 16y ago
There are few places on earth with the natural, intellectual and creative abundance of California. It's absolutely inexcusable that we are in this situation.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Don't forget the 10% sales tax.
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Unpaid Interns are Exploited?(realclearpolitics.com)
4 points by uuilly 16y ago|1 comments
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by uuilly 16y ago
Not at all. This bill is notable for its complexity, scope and unpopularity. Day by day people disliked it more and more and everyone involved wanted to get it off the TV as soon as possible. When a bill is more popular there is less thr
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by uuilly 16y ago
Thousands of pages of barely parsable legalese, constantly changing in different places to keep different politicians on board, the final copy rammed through before the ink dried, what could possibly go wrong? From an engineering perspecti
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by uuilly 16y ago
I'm actually bummed they ditched the picture frames. I tried to order one from the first batch but they were out. My mom and dad would be stoked.
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by uuilly 16y ago
I've always read it pah-steer-eee-us. I know that's wrong but the word has always looked like posterior to me. Fun service though.
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by uuilly 17y ago
Wow. Thanks.

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