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I don't think one or two hundred a visit is very much higher than in any other context.

The innovation is the method of delivery of that $100k medical education. The article actually sold me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_end_job

Government subsidized? You mean the library? Because IIRC the courses retail at a fortune (but are always on sale.)

Blog entry on new 'safe' rolling release Update Pack thing: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781

"I don't know how gridlock on the highway system causes un employment," rather:)

I can't think of a more easily targeted tax.

I don't understand your argument. I don't know how gridlock on the highway system causes employment. I was born, raised, and currently reside pretty deep in the city of Chicago, so I'm familiar with c…

Do we ask the highway system to be profitable? If we eliminate the rural routes and only leave the profitable ones, we might as well get rid of the entire thing - the profitable routes could easily be…

last comment on page: Chris Hamilton - BBC News Social Media Editor says: August 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm We’re checking out the complaint response quoted above but, on the face of it, it’s wrong and isn’t…

SS is self-funding, and is one of the creditors owed as a part of the debt, because it holds treasuries. To suggest that we use SS funds to avoid default is to suggest that we default to avoid default…

I agree. "Wealth" is what is lost when workers who want to work sit idle because the fed decides that protecting the value of "dollars" is a more important mandate than full employment.

It is a political statement. As the Gr.Grandfather comment said, our debts are denominated in dollars, and can be paid off instantly, simply by printing the money. The only reason we can't is because …

Especially here, where the only reason we discuss google and facebook is because we might try to work on it, work with it, or compete against it.

The US imports a lot of its creatives, and a majority of its creatives when it comes to math and science. If capital moves somewhere else, creatives will move somewhere else.

There is no level playing field with foreign workers, because they and we are not free to travel where wages are best or prices are lowest. Capital is free in the modern economy, but labor is not. Exp…

If these social network policies just end up forcing people to use less 'internetty' (all lower case no spaces with leet accents) pseudonyms online, like authors and movie stars, it will definitely de…

I've just started running into the "unneccessary to cater to special interests" argument aganst pseudoanonymity on g+, and I haven't seen any data that indicates that there are more people who general…

kinda does...

He's talking about the smallest and simplest of global variables in that quote, hence: "it's completely doable to write [Pac-Man] in a purely functional style. The dependencies can be worked out; the …

May I recommend "The American Way of Death" by Jessica Mitford (the entirely human Mitford sister)? The basic story is that the funeral industry completely captured the regulating of the disposal of d…

It's more than mindshare, it's also the fact that the ratings given by NRSROs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_Recognized_Statistic... ) are often written into statutes. There are many mass…

I'm not sure whether they've loosened Google's "Death Grip," as much as they've separated garbage content from good content so the algo doesn't have to blacklist their entire site.

Not the other poster, but I wouldn't be. In my semi-baseless opinion, chess playing pleasure is more like the pleasure you get from reading or doing math. Video game pleasure is more like television o…

Review of a good primetime documentary about class mobility in Britain, including unpaid intern stuff: "Who Gets The Best Jobs? Review: Bank of Mum & Dad" http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2011/…