tylee78

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Marscoin aims at bootstrapping space colonization via cryptocurrency venture(marscoin.org)
2 points by tylee78 13y ago|0 comments
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by tylee78 13y ago
the German welfare system (healthcare included) is taxing the living hell out of the working families. It's insane. I'm pretty sure that like anything else, there is a ton of beaurocracy in Germany that loves to "list" p
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by tylee78 13y ago
yes. that's an amazing piece of research. this article really opened my eyes. after studying that article it's much clearer how healthcare can and should be reformed.
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Avalon Asic factory(imgur.com)
3 points by tylee78 13y ago|0 comments
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by tylee78 13y ago
this is an industry not just ripe for disruption but instead ripe for some anti-trust laws and investigation for fraudulent behavior
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by tylee78 13y ago
indeed. again, looking at world affairs, that might be a greater motivational force than anything else.
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Whitehouse Petition to investigate healthcare providers(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
2 points by tylee78 14y ago|0 comments
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by tylee78 14y ago
I just went through some of the posted reports. There is one that caught my eye. Someone developed a "bidding" portal to reduce cost. Quite intriguing: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-930984 At least it seems that getting a handle on the
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Bidding on Healthcare - cut the middle man(ireport.cnn.com)
2 points by tylee78 14y ago|0 comments
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by tylee78 14y ago
maybe they should increase the 'streets' budget (and not just have 1 company get all the contracts) and then clean up that gigantic pile of trash that the city is. never seen a more filthy city than Philadelphia
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by tylee78 14y ago
I highly recommend Robert Zubrin's "The Case for Mars" - you'll be surprised what else is possible on Mars with current technology: http://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Mars-Settle-Planet/dp/1451608...
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by tylee78 14y ago
Buddhism does not really fit the (Western) context of a "religion" anyways - probably that's why. That is especially true for the more ancient forms of Buddhism - which the author of this book subscribes to.
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by tylee78 14y ago
...my experience (originally from Germany, in the US since 2005) as well. It's a question of mentality. While in the US a vast number of people want to create their own business or already did when they are quite young, running a business o
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by tylee78 14y ago
no. just a "honor" murder each week. usually knives though, so does not count.
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by tylee78 14y ago
I really am surprised by most of the (young) parents I have met so far in the US. My father used corporal punishment for even little things on us and left a (psychological) scar - I could never touch my kids - on the other hand, in our home
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Longevity gene that makes Hydra immortal also controls human aging(kurzweilai.net)
2 points by tylee78 14y ago|0 comments
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by tylee78 14y ago
The idea behind meditation is not that difficult to understand. However, it is watered down quite a bit, especially if you learn it in a New Age environment. If you go back to the old schools of meditation, the techniques are very clear and
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by tylee78 14y ago
Happens to me all the time. I am working on a piece of code in the afternoon, and can't move forward or looking to identify a bug or optimizing some algorithm - wasting hours. After a meditation session I walk back to the computer screen,
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Bina48 is first humanoid robot to address a conference(kurzweilai.net)
1 points by tylee78 14y ago|0 comments
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Southampton engineers build a Raspberry Pi supercomputer(southampton.ac.uk)
2 points by tylee78 14y ago|0 comments
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by tylee78 14y ago
...which goes to show that socialized health-care can even be worse.
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by tylee78 14y ago
nice system! sounds like it has a market principle built into it...
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by tylee78 14y ago
After 15min ER due to a strained wrist the bill was $4100 dollars. We demanded detailed itemized bills and send letters to the doctor (billed separately) and the hospital. The doctor dropped his bill from ridiculous $900 dollars (for saying
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by tylee78 14y ago
compared to Germany the percentage of criminals seems the same - it's just that our criminals are on the streets, yours in prison.
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by tylee78 14y ago
being German myself, I cannot agree more. I was sometimes wondering if the author of this article was in the same country that I left. But I have seen this tendency before: people who visited Germany in the 60s, 70s and 80s have a "mental p
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X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future(wired.com)
2 points by tylee78 14y ago|0 comments
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by tylee78 14y ago
one example: it is used that way in Germany and applied (mostly) to right wing parties
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by tylee78 14y ago
Yes, was going to mention it too. It's incredible and works so well... It's basically a khan academy for Latin and a shame not more people know about it. Definitely the way to go if you want to learn Latin the way a roman child learned it :
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by tylee78 14y ago
reminds me of the 400 dollars the hospital charged me the other day for part of a splint (the wrapping cloth) which was probably manufactured in China for $.50
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by tylee78 14y ago
Now seriously, as a software developer, what would be the best skill set to help these guys... As soon as I can afford it I would knock at their door and work for them for free. What would be most usefull for them (or spaceX)... A lot of C,

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