I'm not arguing the position, I was providing a few examples where people can reasonably disagree with the story that was presented as obvious and definitive and educational.
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National parks, EPA, WIC, and Housing and Urban Dev.
99% of the federal government (by spending) will remain open, including:
US Military, Food stamps, Unemployment benefits, Social Security benefits, TSA, air traffic control, border patrol, Federal Reserve, and the Post Office.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/09/30/227884483...
The Democrat narrative has at least three elements:
(1) The House Republicans are unwilling to compromise and will shutdown the government if they can't get rid of Obamacare. (2) This will ruin the economy. (3) America should pay its bills.
So much of the media has ignored the Republican narrative:
(1) Senate Democrats and the President are unwilling to compromise and will shutdown the government if they can't keep all of Obamacare. (2) Excessive government spending hurts the economy. (3) Going deeper into debt is not paying ones bills.
Like I said, surprisingly the latest blurbs about the shutdown actually focus on Congress as a whole not being able to compromise and come to an agreement instead of focusing only on the GOP or Tea Party.
What if these "stabilizers" (i.e. money creation) are doing more harm than good, or even causing the business cycle? What if social safety hammocks decrease growth? What if welfare provided by prudent local governments through savings, or even private means, are sufficient? What if there are a ton of differences between the Europe and America other than the Federal Reserve?
I kind of wished this site was written in Java and run through scalagen with the output being run as an additional meta-demonstration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renunciation_of_citizenship#Uni...
Like, say you thought ~/src/xulrunner was a git repo, but it was actually managed with hg or maybe was extracted from a tarball. Whereas normally executing some git command would complain that this is not a repo, if your ~ is a git repo then git will happily execute whatever you told it to on your dotfiles repo.
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=...
2 large handfuls of fresh spinach or kale, 1 apple or 6 strawberries, 1 banana, 1 tbsp ground flaxseed, 1 large handful of ice, 1-2 cups of water, 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
I prefer to drink it with a straw.
Galt, arguably the biggest hero, is not a C-level exec. He is an engineer. Another hero, Ragnar, is a pirate.
Perhaps "Atlas Shrugged" contrasts both indeterminite pessimism (the failing state and despair-filled question "Who's John Galt?") and the determinite optimism of engineers/makers and Galt's Gultch.
- Any mention of the claim that they had made a deal with the hackers. No attempt to deny the claim.
- Any mention of when the systems were compromised or when they discovered that they were compromised. The post starts with "Yesterday," mentions working "around the clock" and mentions Friday, giving the impression that this is all very recent, when according to the hacker Linode has known for two weeks.
I looked all over FAOSTAT but couldn't find an explanation. http://faostat3.fao.org/home/index.html#METADATA
http://www.chris-granger.com/images/030/navigate.png
It looks like the same method I'm using in emacs/ido, which is to turn "la/clj" into
"(l).*?(a).*?(/).*?(c).*?(l).*?(j).*?"
For another example, on a search of "completions" I think your technique will highlight "hacks-completions" as "hacks-completions" instead of "hacks-completions".
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to modify the regex (not LightTable) and get the user-friendly results of Sublime Text?
programmer
gamer
mba
programmer
student/mathematics
student/medicine
md/recent grad
student/medicine
econ BA/finance (labeled researcher)
marine biologist (labeled researcher)
industrial engineer/entrepreneur (labeled senior researcher)
econ BA/event planner
student/philosophy+neuroscience+law (labeled researcher)
md/recent grad (labeled researcher)
eagle scout/philosopher (labeled researcher)
graphic designer
md/practicioner
novelist
phd molecular biologist/recent grad (labeled researcher)
programmer (labeled researcher)
college research assistant (labeled researcher)
blogger
programmer
https://github.com/flatland/drip/wiki/Clojure/_compare/87336...
I think this $4B number is the Research & Development line off a financial report. I am not an accountant but I believe this number can include tons of things that people don't normally think of as R&D but just regular cost of doing business, and what we do think of as research is often a very small percent of it. Perhaps tax laws incentivize companies to put as many expenses in this category (of like 3 categories) as possible.
On a related point, people used to quote a number like it cost $500 million to bring a new drug to market, often as a justification for patents. I remember reading an academic article that showed how the real cost was almost always 1/20 of that, but drug companies were including the construction of optional new plants that were used for existing drugs too, 20 year leases on specialty tree farms and other supplies, and huge "present value" calculations that would take $2 million spent by a university 20 years ago, use the companies cost of capital (maybe 14%), and even though the company only paid $500k for the rights a few years ago they would calcuate some number in the tens or hundreds of millions that was never paid by anyone.
Specifically:
"In truth, in the case of individuals, their actual voting is not to be taken as proof of consent, even for the time being. On the contrary, it is to be considered that, without his consent having even been asked a man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. He sees, too, that other men practice this tyranny over him by the use of the ballot. He sees further, that, if he will but use the ballot himself, he has some chance of relieving himself from this tyranny of others, by subjecting them to his own. In short, he finds himself, without his consent, so situated that, if he use the ballot, he may become a master; if he does not use it, he must become a slave. And he has no other alternative than these two. In self- defence, he attempts the former. His case is analogous to that of a man who has been forced into battle, where he must either kill others, or be killed himself. Because, to save his own life in battle, a man takes the lives of his opponents, it is not to be inferred that the battle is one of his own choosing. Neither in contests with the ballot — which is a mere substitute for a bullet — because, as his only chance of self- preservation, a man uses a ballot, is it to be inferred that the contest is one into which he voluntarily entered; that he voluntarily set up all his own natural rights, as a stake against those of others, to be lost or won by the mere power of numbers. On the contrary, it is to be considered that, in an exigency into which he had been forced by others, and in which no other means of self-defence offered, he, as a matter of necessity, used the only one that was left to him.
"Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby meliorating their condition. But it would not, therefore, be a legitimate inference that the government itself, that crushes them, was one which they had voluntarily set up, or even consented to.
"The Machinery of Freedom" by David Friedman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o
Anything within a few hundred votes will be decided by the courts. See Gore v. Bush.
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Joseph Stalin)
I agree with your point, just not that the Emacs code base is a good reference of what's required to implement the numerous little text editing features people use every day.
Really? Youtube videos, Facebook photos, TV shows, movies, music, etc only 5%?
To be expected from a company that sells a text editor that's 95% typography.
Here's my notes from a related talk he gave on the subject:
http://library.mises.org/media/The%20Costs%20of%20War/World%...
"in europe, during monarchy taxes were 3-5%, during democracy 25%. during monarchy debt was paid down during peace time, democracies increase debt during war and peace. during monarchy, price level fell century after century, and in democracy price level has risen. in monarchy interest rates fell, in democracy interest rates have risen. in monarchy money supply grew modestly (6x in century), in democracy it's grown enormously (1000x in century). govt gdp expenditures are much higher under democracy than monarchy. very little redistribution of wealth under monarchy. very little interference. very few new laws. most wars are limited to territory under dispute often bc of inheritance/marriage."