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the German welfare system (healthcare included) is taxing the living hell out of the working families. It's insane. I'm pretty sure that like anything else, there is a ton of beaur…

yes. that's an amazing piece of research. this article really opened my eyes. after studying that article it's much clearer how healthcare can and should be reformed.

this is an industry not just ripe for disruption but instead ripe for some anti-trust laws and investigation for fraudulent behavior

indeed. again, looking at world affairs, that might be a greater motivational force than anything else.

I just went through some of the posted reports. There is one that caught my eye. Someone developed a "bidding" portal to reduce cost. Quite intriguing: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/…

maybe they should increase the 'streets' budget (and not just have 1 company get all the contracts) and then clean up that gigantic pile of trash that the city is. never seen a mor…

I highly recommend Robert Zubrin's "The Case for Mars" - you'll be surprised what else is possible on Mars with current technology: http://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Mars-Settle-Plane…

Buddhism does not really fit the (Western) context of a "religion" anyways - probably that's why. That is especially true for the more ancient forms of Buddhism - which the author …

...my experience (originally from Germany, in the US since 2005) as well. It's a question of mentality. While in the US a vast number of people want to create their own business or…

no. just a "honor" murder each week. usually knives though, so does not count.

I really am surprised by most of the (young) parents I have met so far in the US. My father used corporal punishment for even little things on us and left a (psychological) scar - …

The idea behind meditation is not that difficult to understand. However, it is watered down quite a bit, especially if you learn it in a New Age environment. If you go back to the …

Happens to me all the time. I am working on a piece of code in the afternoon, and can't move forward or looking to identify a bug or optimizing some algorithm - wasting hours. Afte…

...which goes to show that socialized health-care can even be worse.

nice system! sounds like it has a market principle built into it...

After 15min ER due to a strained wrist the bill was $4100 dollars. We demanded detailed itemized bills and send letters to the doctor (billed separately) and the hospital. The doct…

compared to Germany the percentage of criminals seems the same - it's just that our criminals are on the streets, yours in prison.

being German myself, I cannot agree more. I was sometimes wondering if the author of this article was in the same country that I left. But I have seen this tendency before: people …