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• squeezed out of the affluent urban core...,

  
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  mercurynews | The middle-class American dream, which resided for more than half a century in leafy suburban enclaves such as Mountain View, Lafayette and Antioch -- homogeneous bulwarks built by GI loans and fortified by white flight -- has given way to an alarming rise in suburban poverty over the past decade, ...
  4 days ago

• more making stuff up and getting busted for it....,

  
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  NYTimes | One summer night in 2011, a tall, 40-something professor named Diederik Stapel stepped out of his elegant brick house in the Dutch city of Tilburg to visit a friend around the corner. It was close to midnight, but his colleague Marcel Zeelenberg had called and texted Stapel that evening to say that he ...
  5 days ago

• How Government Wrecked the Gas Can

  
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  I havent bought a gas can in the last three years, so I was unaware that apparently, you cant, anymore. At least, not one that works... “Hmmm, I just hate how slow these gas cans are these days,” he grumbled. “There’s no vent on them.” That sound of frustration in this guy’s voice was strangely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two effects of new technology

  
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  Here are a couple of interesting cartoon strips about the (possible) effects of new technology. Yesterday’s one is more about unintended consequences, while today’s is really about how apparently intelligent software and monitoring systems might be fooled. Here are the links: Unintended consequences of new ...
  2 weeks ago

• Need a Gun? Now You Can Print One

  
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  Image from source, Raw Story Yeah, I cant see anything bad coming from this. . . [Excerpt] 3-D-printed gun available for download after firing first shots The nonprofit group that created the world’s first 3-D-printed gun on Sunday proved that the weapon could be fired.In a YouTube video ...
  2 weeks ago

• Forum: How do you feel about minors being able to buy the Morning After pill without prescription or parental notification?

  
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  Every week on Monday morning , the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question:How do you feel about minors being able to buy the Morning After pill without prescription or parental notification? The Razor :I spoke to the wife who ...
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• Side Effects of Inflationism: Rat Meat, Horsemeat and Fake Tuna Scandals

  
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  Due to price instability brought about by inflationist policies, one of the major nasty side effects has been to encourage a decline in quality of products ( value deflation ) or even promote fraud in the marketplace in order for many to survive. As the great Murray N. Rothbard explained (bold mine) ...
  2 weeks ago

• A triumph of stupidity

  
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  No comment.
  4 weeks ago

• I have sharp knives

  
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  Convenient, dont you think, that Congress gets to do this sort of thing. Enough to make one puke; "But now, word comes that Congress is quietly seeking to rescind that provision of the law (requiring participation in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges - Ed.), because members fear that staffers who face higher ...
  4 weeks ago

• Computer help is not always helpful

  
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  It’s very tempting to try to make life as easy as possible for end users by being proactive, ie anticipating what is likely to be useful to them, and then implementing that as a default option (or possibly not even an option, but compulsory). Help Point. Photo by Mark Hillary ...
  4 weeks ago

• Playing jokes on the mentally challenged

  
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  Mike has a question over at Sipsey Street concerning what to bring with him on a trip to New York, in a open attempt at flaunting their stupid SAFE Act . I think my suggestion is hilarious. Q: "Ill have to go to New York and break their new unconstitutional laws...any suggestions as to when and what?" ...
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• Johns Hopkins: Thanks to EHRs, time with patients seems “squeezed out” of medical training, investigator says

  
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  Question:  Who would have thought it?  That there is yet another potentially deadly unintended consequence of bad health IT and health IT hyper-enthusiasm ? Suggested answer:  anyone who truly understands the issues at the intersection of medicine, information science, information technology, and Social ...
  4 weeks ago

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