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by webXL 13y ago
tl;dr Connectivity counts: More intersections mean more walking, and more disconnected cul-de-sacs mean more driving. People who live in neighborhoods with latticeworklike streets actually drive 26 percent fewer miles than people in the cul
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by webXL 13y ago
That certainly depends on the complexity of the product. Many take longer then that to successfully market. The last thing you want is a bigger competitor with a huge marketing department to copy your idea and get it out to market before yo
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by webXL 13y ago
The classic definition is what most people think of: socially liberal, fiscally conservative. These two ideas are coherent because they both require minimal intervention on the part of the state. But libertarians are often attacked for not
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by webXL 13y ago
As part of the world's population, isn't there a high chance that the FDA contains some fraction of the "stupid" majority? Is it possible that a majority of the FDA could be labeled "stupid"?
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by webXL 13y ago
Wha? Venture capital is moving to the cloud???
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by webXL 13y ago
Oops. That's what I get for commenting on my iPhone! Handsontable is pretty active, so perhaps they can address your issues soon.
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by webXL 13y ago
Might not be totally relevant here, but I highly reccomend Handsontable for rendering/manipulating spreadsheets client side: http://handsontable.com Edit: In fact I'm headed home right now to integrate your lib with th
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by webXL 13y ago
Yep. Pretty snappy in iOS7 at least.
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by webXL 13y ago
One thing I was certain about before today was that my next phone would have 32GB. Sorry Apple, I probably would have stuck with the iPhone for $199. Now I'm actually on the fence!
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by webXL 13y ago
/ in the morgue
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by webXL 13y ago
Perhaps I should have tried to establish what was meant by "economic activity" before posing my critique. There are many definitions, but I took it to mean the production of wealth . Governments and other coercive institutions do
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by webXL 13y ago
Just a couple points: Involuntary exchanges also have externalities, both negative and positive. It turns out people prefer voluntary, so the vast majority of externalities occur under capitalism. Are "slavery, coercion, blackmail, for
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by webXL 13y ago
Awesome, but this almost drained my macbook battery dry, or at least that's my suspicion. It was in a background tab, but I noticed the name of the playing song had changed, even though my volume was down. Chrome should have some way t
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by webXL 13y ago
The only completely safe ____ is the one which ____. We can fill in the blanks all day long. There are ways to mitigate the earthquake risk and there are new designs that are incapable of melting-down. Using a combination of the two would c
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by webXL 13y ago
Oh, and I forgot about getting off of coal. Even if there were 10 more Fukushimas, it still wouldn't be as much radiation as what coal produces: "The radiation that fossil fuel plants spew into the environment each year is around
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by webXL 13y ago
I want new ones, not built in tsunami & earthquake prone areas , since they are the only practical way to eliminate greenhouse gasses, and to stop propping up theocracies in the Middle East.
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by webXL 13y ago
Please let us know of one equivalent using semicolons for this semicolon-less bug: a = b + c (d + e).print() Which is evaluated as a = b + c(d + e).print(); Taken straight out of http://mislav.uniqpath.com/20
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by webXL 13y ago
The only reason public sector unions exist is because they are so influential, despite FDR's warning against them and the conflict of interest that falls on the taxpayers representatives who often have their campaigns partially finan
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by webXL 13y ago
Candidate Obama and President Obama are two very different people, despite what many reporters and big supporters would have you believe. But it takes a strong willed human being not to give in to all the pressures that must be present in t
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by webXL 13y ago
As my wine (and Latin) loving father is fond of saying: De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API(vinaysahni.com)
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by webXL 13y ago
I totally agree. The brain is drastically more complex than a CPU, which could be reverse engineered in such a fashion. That's because we have a solid understanding of what happens when electrons flow through a series of specialized ci
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by webXL 13y ago
My brother was diagnosed with this awful disease about a year ago. He's 45 and has two children a few years older than Aaron's, so this definitely hits home. He already has a very hard time speaking, which means the disease starte
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by webXL 13y ago
> Bradley Manning, a soldier who released classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, has had a very different experience. Manning was held for three years without trial, including 11 months when he was held in de facto solitary confineme
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by webXL 13y ago
Or, the NSA story reinforces why limited government is important.
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by webXL 13y ago
The high costs of hiring and nature of specialization in certain industries makes it impractical to let employees determine how much time they will work each year. Now, if a new position opens up at a company and the fixed costs of bringing
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by webXL 13y ago
Have you ever considered that vacation might not even be possible without capitalism? After all, how else would employers allocate capital to make up for the employee's absence, and the employee allocate savings to make up for the additiona
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by webXL 13y ago
Or it could actually have nothing to do with regulations. Something called imperfect competition: very few people want and sell the exact same thing. That makes it very difficult to sell superior products at lower cost.
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by webXL 13y ago
Oh, a CON. Hayek probably had some fun with that.
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by webXL 13y ago
Nice story, but moz.com really needs to "body { color: black }" with that background of theirs.

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