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It's not just marketing. I was in the manufacturing program of a large public university in Michigan, where you would expect all the staff to be heavily biased in favor of Detroit …

But don't you see, you're missing the entire point. Banksy is a graffiti artist . At no time have any of his works been capable of being bought or sold. His graffiti has routinely …

According to this U.S. Debt Clock [1]: The interest on the national debt is $260 billion per year, on nearly $17 trillion in debt, for an effective interest rate of 1.5%. If that i…

In a chat with one of my older friends who I respect very much, he lent this advice: Mark, the first thing you need to do to be successful is make a decision on what you want to ac…

Really? HN is full of fluff, and this post is decidedly un-fluffy.

Can I get a citation for any of this? It was my understanding that the USDA allows cattle to be fed "cage lining" which is chicken feathers, poop and feed taken from the bottom of …

I believe it was originally because of postwar wage/price controls, which led to employers giving health insurance to attract employees, which led to the IRS taxing health insuranc…

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Everybody has to worship something.

Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on the…

>post-election Pre-election. He flip-flopped about the wiretaps prior to his election, after winning the primaries.

Buddha said life is "dukkha", a word that his listeners would have recognized as sounding like a wheel with the axle slightly out of true: "Duka-duka-duka"... He indeed meant that …

Has anyone else noticed that the music playing during the MM2 password screen is remarkably similar to the end of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer"?