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For a house representative, it is around 2M dollars every two years. That's 870M dollars of special interest money every two years and 7B dollars every four years. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/7-billion-spent-on-201...

Why does it have to be expensive? This is the fundamental question we should be asking and should be trying to find solutions to.

Can you please share your warrior diet experience? I am also on a warrior diet for the past 2-3 months (should have tracked better) and I like it so far. I am concerned about any long-term negative side effects.

I am glad to see somebody mentioning Jiddu Krishnamurti here. He is the most underrated and forgotten person, mainly due to his own insistence, but he made a tremendous difference to some lives. I've come across his books almost twenty years ago, I haven't read any of his books in years now, but his teachings(insights he shared, because he wouldn't like to be called a teacher ) are so well ingrained that I am reminded of them every day.

Similar to the OP of this thread, I didn't marry a person who said he finds his teachings dry :), I am now happily married to my spouse for twelve years who humbly says it is too difficult to really understand Jiddu.

Hostile attitude towards poor? I don't think so. Most of us are just busy trying to make a living/career, raise a family etc. There is not enough free time to go around. And whatever free time that is left is sucked up by TV/internet.

My most recent purchase is a 900$ Bosch dishwasher that is saving me so much time (and time is money) and saving money indirectly because I am cooking more often at home as I don't find washing dishes to be taxing any more. Home cooked, all natural food is healthy in the long run. The sink is empty and it makes me feel less cluttered and more efficient. So it is a chain reaction and the effects are compounded. One thing leads to another. There is a 10000$ difference between a 500$ dishwasher and a 900$ dishwasher.

Andrew Ng's class has hours and hours of content each week and it is pretty thorough (I am just auditing, don't have much knowledge).

I feel that Data Scienctist Toolkit was a slacker course, it could have covered more topics or tested the students more. Five questions in each quiz and four such quizzes and you are done.

These courses are morale boosters, you can earn a certificate in four weeks and that keeps some motivated.

I like the concept of five late days for the whole course, lets you stay on track despite one's busy schedule.

I think we are doing the specialization at the same time.

As an open source maintainer I can say that “question asking etiquette” is NOT common knowledge.

I don't have any problem with having that as a credit earning question. But I hated it when it carried 20-25% of the credit in one of the quizzes. This course could have asked more questions in the quiz to test its students more.

My ex-colleague introduced this to me and I thank him every time I use ack. It is really so much better than grep. I have set up a bunch of aliases to search by file type and it makes me so productive.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. – Tyler Durden, Fight Club

That's an awesome quote. Personalized ads (retargeting etc are even worse). I didn't realize this before I worked for an ad network. Once I understood how retargeting works (and also after implementing a humble feature), I realized how unethical it is to constantly tempt the user to buy something he or she can not afford or even if she can afford it, the money she could have put to better use by saving. I resigned from that company after a short stint even though it had a great work culture, great team etc. But had they offered me some crazy stock options, may be I wouldn't have had the moral courage to quit, with an underwater mortgage and financial insecurity.

Bill Watterson

The Latest - Miley Cyrus tweets from hospital

Guess where you can find that on the front page?

RYOT is exactly what an ideal news site should be.Hope it succeeds.

Clientcide sounds similar to suicide, homicide, infanticide, genocide etc.

I hope this thread gains some traction.

Noble Silence: "Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"

http://chandana.blogspot.com/2011/04/noble-silence.html

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