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An interesting data point in the electronic medical records discussion. Those (admittedly few) primary care practices which choose not to interact with the insurance companies, and…

> Love jQuery. Hate monopolies. What's the meeaning of the word "monopoly" in a situation where breaking the monopoly means switching to another library? A library which, by the wa…

This is the kind of pigeon-holing which prevents one from actually considering an idea on its merits. For example, what did OP say that suggests they don't allow themselves to thin…

> it's very hard to make macro economic calculations like this. There are so many more factors that haven't been mentioned and surely there are some of those unknown unknowns lurki…

Another interesting development is primary care for cash, or "direct primary care". Somewhere between retail health clinics at the low end and concierge medicine at the high end, t…

You did state rather unequivocally that WWII fixed the economy: > It didn't suffer through it at all, it got fixed by it. And now, you're attempting to declare post hoc, ergo propt…

The fallacy is that you don't know, can't know, what our economy would have been after that period, absent WWII. What if we were on the cusp of recovery anyway and we had spent 5 y…

Ex-Freddie-Mac-Now-Cato-Economist Arnold Kling claims (in this interview: http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/14744 ) that Fannie basically had to lower their requirements in order to…

Okay, we can't downvote spam... how about a report button? You could auto-hide and review by moderators after x# reports.

Design needs work on 2 levels: User-friendliness * when using the categories on the left to narrow a search, clicking a category always adds it to the end of the search, even when …

They corrected for this in the tests: > the tests were repeated using gallons per 100 miles You could also say "aught-5 gallons per mile," where the decimal is placed by convention…

There are some young approaches to solving this problem. One I just discovered today is Qliance, a low-cost version of boutique care, dubbed "direct primary care." No insurance nee…

Agree in general, with one note: > capitalist market responses would be vastly better at "dealing" with it than anything the gubmint could do with carbon tax revenues Carbon taxes …

Investment return rate, rent/buy cost ratio, inflation and home appreciation (or depreciation) rates all matter. It's a lot to consider. Luckily, the NYTimes put out a great calcul…

Shouldn't he be using median rather than average values? Zaitratsu could have just had one mega-posting and a bunch of mediocre ones. AFAIK, the conclusions he's drawing, while the…

The disastrous thing is that it would be less useful to have a maximized window be 10x the size of its contents. For example, IMO the behavior of safari on maximize is just beautif…

+1 for content negotiation. Extension-less URLs are just plain sexy.

This one is good for brainstorming ideas with immediate feedback: http://instantdomainsearch.com/

Indeed. On the subject of long vs. short term thinking, or the time-value of money, the most clear example is the case of rent-to-own stores. Rent-to-own is a form of financing, eq…

One day I'd like to start one or more schools based on the Monitorial (not Montessori) approach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_schools ). It takes a good amount of capit…

I have a love/hate relationship with Condorcet's paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet's_paradox ): love: it illustrates a fundamental limitation of democratic processes…

I was going to launch pre-Railsconf and maybe recruit there, but this gives me an extra week or two of leeway... and hopefully filters out the corporate types, so I'm sold!

Curious how much you paid for that domain... It's not just curiosity driving me; I'm trying to decide how much I'm willing to put down to save 1 letter and a syllable. :-P