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by markost 13y ago
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown...
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by markost 13y ago
It's not just marketing. I was in the manufacturing program of a large public university in Michigan, where you would expect all the staff to be heavily biased in favor of Detroit automakers, and the constant refrain was "Toyota,
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by markost 13y ago
But don't you see, you're missing the entire point. Banksy is a graffiti artist . At no time have any of his works been capable of being bought or sold. His graffiti has routinely been lost, painted over, weathered, or ignored. T
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by markost 13y ago
According to this U.S. Debt Clock [1]: The interest on the national debt is $260 billion per year, on nearly $17 trillion in debt, for an effective interest rate of 1.5%. If that interest rate were to rise to 1980 levels, for instance, at 6
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by markost 13y ago
In a chat with one of my older friends who I respect very much, he lent this advice: Mark, the first thing you need to do to be successful is make a decision on what you want to accomplish, and then commit all your resources to that goal.
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by markost 13y ago
Really? HN is full of fluff, and this post is decidedly un-fluffy.
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by markost 13y ago
Can I get a citation for any of this? It was my understanding that the USDA allows cattle to be fed "cage lining" which is chicken feathers, poop and feed taken from the bottom of chicken cages. The chicken feed, in turn, contains
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by markost 13y ago
I believe it was originally because of postwar wage/price controls, which led to employers giving health insurance to attract employees, which led to the IRS taxing health insurance, which led to Congress exempting health insurance fro
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by markost 13y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
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by markost 13y ago
Everybody has to worship something.
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by markost 13y ago
Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales? In fact, a little known feature of Costco's b
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by markost 13y ago
>post-election Pre-election. He flip-flopped about the wiretaps prior to his election, after winning the primaries.
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by markost 13y ago
Buddha said life is "dukkha", a word that his listeners would have recognized as sounding like a wheel with the axle slightly out of true: "Duka-duka-duka"... He indeed meant that life is suffering. English speakers toda
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by markost 14y ago
Has anyone else noticed that the music playing during the MM2 password screen is remarkably similar to the end of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer"?