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I proposed something similar to this as a way to handle fraud or non-performance in Federal contracts: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+StevenFlaeck/posts/BNzLK4wwwPY

I would think that certs would be useful in signaling commitment for people wanting to join that workforce.

There is no real difference. The term "capitalism" is felt to be dissimilar from "free market", but no one is usually able to articulate a coherent difference. The central problem …

Groups tend to have fewer free speech rights than individuals. A person can usually shout whatever he wants from a street corner; 100 people will probably need a permit and relativ…

That would be beyond awesome if they could tack down karma weighting.

They don't need to generate a profit and it would be preferable if there was no profitable business model for it. Donations to both MIT and Harvard are considered charitable; makin…

Well... there's also a right to asylum (14), group rights for families, to some form of social maintenance (22), limitation of working hours and minimum wage (24), full and free ed…

Except that's how this is usually done. Federal loans can be deferred and payments scale to income. The counterargument to the high cost of college is that she, or her parents, sho…

Or "macho cultures" have a lower percentage of male college graduates, creating more opportunities for women at the top. Or they correspond to fast-growing underdeveloped countries…

Housing doesn't need to disappear. If we tried to move everyone in California closer to the center of its major cities, we'd see prices increase dramatically.

A state can have population growth and net emigration.

It took me a while to realize that you were probably talking about television. My instant thought was "channels" as in communication channels.

Life is easier when everyone else is a failed version of yourself, amirite?

What's the actual advantage to the game ? Why would a company want to create a research server for people to perfect their bot programming?

No? Money simply has a signature. The major reason why cash is "anonymous" is because there is no attempt to track the serials beyond initial deliveries to financial institutions, …

Actually, I think the ACA does improve the situation he describes. Small companies, like start-ups, wouldn't be required to purchase health insurance and people whose earnings teet…

Note that the criteria are weighted heavily towards luminary faculty and not towards student results.

Those same universities have selection criteria which predict success after college independent of the college attended. So it's not like they are masterfully teaching anything; ra…

This isn't possible. A person can either spend money or store money. This isn't quite accurate. You note later how markets work, but you're not seeing how much that's in tension wi…

You are basically describing the LXTHW model.

The irony being that Spotify has a social strategy.

Even if that's correct, that doesn't mean that what Kim did wasn't illegal or wrong. Kim wasn't simply engaged in "file sharing" he ran a multimillion dollar parallel distribution …

It's worth noting that Kodak was a leader in digital cameras even in the 1980s. It's also worth considering the impact of vertical integration: companies like Samsung and LG also m…

I often wonder about these findings. To what extent are we seeing a neurologically-driven phenomenon vis-a-vis one generated by a host of factors causing relatively common skill at…

The article is actually about Brent council and the use of digital media as an excuse to remove libraries from poor communities--where they are popular as free Internet cafes and p…