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by watchandwait 16y ago
French universities are a disaster: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/world/europe/12france.html
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by watchandwait 16y ago
As a class, the rich do not want Joe Average investing in startups. It creates more competition and dilutes the power of their capital. So the rich conspire with Congress to create laws that block Joe Average from these markets. Most "pro
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Fair enough, fascism also has non-economic context and that's not the point I was making.
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From Wikipedia: "An inherent aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigisme, meaning an economy where the government exerts strong directive influence, and effectively controls production and allocation of resources. In general, apart f
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So policymakers have wrecked traditional capital markets through regulations on raising capital, interest rate distortions, twisted tax policy, patent law abuse, and anti-hiring labor policy, and now they are going to "fix" VC markets for u
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This makes me hate Experts Exchange even more.
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Hong Kong's government is very well run and largely corruption-free. It is an institutional legacy of the British civil service. They also have arguably the freest economy in the world, which reduces the potential for corruption. America'
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Yeah but the economy is a lot bigger now too. It is an indisputable fact that the U.S. IPO market smaller in both size and frequency. It isn't the only cause, but Sarbox has hammered public companies with huge regulatory costs for absolute
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I blame Michigan's anti-business labor and tax law.
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It is a lot better than collisions at lights. A NJ DOT friend says the jughandles are a lot safer-- the principle is keeping stopped and turning cars away from moving traffic.
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These schools are awash in money. Per capita student spending has gone through the roof the last three decades, and NY spends as much as any place in America. http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/the-highest-p... The unions and
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For what it is worth, Mubarak has been a peacemaker in the Middle East, and largely a protector of Egyptian minorities.
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The state is hardly the "guarantor of justice and peace." Governments use deadly force and have created the greatest horrors of humanity. In the 20th century alone the state created the Holocaust, deliberately starved tens of millions to
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"public/private initiative" == "crony capitalism"
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The number one health problem among America's poor is obesity and its related illnesses. The American poor mostly own cars, TVs, and air conditioners, and often live in residences bigger than middle class homes in Europe. Sorry, poverty i
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A lot of the physical decay in New York in the 1970s was the result of rent control, which led to abandoned buildings as landlords could not operate the buildings at a profit. At one point the city owned 70% of Harlem.
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I was paddled in public school and I'd say that works pretty well for maintaining order.
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Ireland and Greece are COMPLETELY different. Greece's government budget is wildly fraudulent. Ireland's government was responsible, but decided to encumber taxpayers with private banking losses. Irish voters, like those in Iceland, may y
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Regulations are only as ethical as the regulator -- just ask Bernie Madoff's victims how well that worked. Indeed, more regulation leads to a false sense of security, and certainly stifles innovation. Better to have the market, and market
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Article fails to mention that the U.S. is actively considering internet "kill-switch" authority. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029282-281.html
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Yes, the first 26 weeks are insurance, but the remaining weeks are federal welfare checks paid for with borrowed money.
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Duff's ignorant anger is why the program was killed.
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It will be interesting to see how Gmail treats email messages from Amazon SES.
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America's very own corrupt and stupid central planning....actually central planning implies some greater purpose, American ethanol policy is a kind of petit fascism because it is designed to benefit a handful of insider corporations (ADM, e
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I would love to be able to build my own PC that runs OSX.
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The wasteful corn ethanol subsidy is another example of American agri-corporatism.
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Do not complain about a two-hour security line for a domestic flight. Do you want the terrorists to win? I will wait 15 hours and submit to a TSA full body cavity search if it makes the flight safer.
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What is interesting here is that the U.S. govt is not a monolith. TSA is clearly ignoring the will of Congress, which voted in 2009 to block the scanners. They are also certainly violating the 4th Amendment limit on government searches.
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Some of the TSA's "customers" in this case aren't really the traveling public. They are the insiders, like former DHS chairman Michael Chertoff, who are making money from lucrative government contracts for the scanners. The public fallout
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The incoming Chairman of the House subcommittee which oversees TSA calls the entire screening process "a Kabuki dance" and the U.S. House already voted overwhelmingly 310-118 in June 2009 to ban the use of the scanners as the primary means

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