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srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 30 2009 | on, programmingQuoted: So, one day someone at StackOverflow started a "Hidden features of" post about a famous language (I don't feel like finding out which one was first exactly), and it turned out to be so popular that other posts in the same series started popping up.
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2009 | people, on, world
Quoted: But the notion that most American consumers enjoy anything like a competitive marketplace for health care is flatly false. And a study issued last month by a pro-reform group makes that strikingly clear.
Quoted: The report, released by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), uses data compiled by the American Medical Association to show that 94 percent of the country's insurance markets are defined as "highly concentrated," according to Justice Department guidelines. Predictably, that's led to skyrocketing costs for patients, and monster profits for the big health insurers. Premiums have gone up over the past six years by more than 87 percent, on average, while profits at ten of the largest publicly traded health insurance companies rose 428 percent from 2000 to 2007.
Quoted: Far from healthy market competition, HCAN describes the situation as "a market failure where a small number of large companies use their concentrated power to control premium levels, benefit packages, and provider payments in the markets they dominate."
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 25 2009 | africa, sports, video
click to playI watched this game yesterday. It was ridiculous. Both goals are awesome.
Quoted: Spain vs USA (0 - 2) FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009 SKY SPORTS
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 24 2009 | blogs
I used to think Fox just had incompetent graphics people that were easily overwhelmed during election season, but this is just too obvious to be a mistake. Sanford is one of the Republican's (supposed) prospects for the 2012 presidential nomination. Fucking Fox.
Quoted: On Fox, Mark Sanford "(D)" holds press conference
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 24 2009 | video
click to playAwesome.
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 23 2009 | time, on, people
Quoted: Quality of sleep is not something to be taken lightly, and yet so many geeks have trouble sleeping at night. Aside from the obvious (going to a doctor), there are a number of things you can try to get a better night's sleep, ranging from sleep-tracking alarm clocks to software that lulls you into a slumber.
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2009 | on, time, tools
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2009 | on, technology, people
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 13 2009 | on, people, new york
Quoted: I am aware of the difficulties of catching history on the run. Some explanation may emerge for Ahmadinejad's upset that does not involve fraud. For instance, it is possible that he has gotten the credit for spreading around a lot of oil money in the form of favors to his constituencies, but somehow managed to escape the blame for the resultant high inflation.
Quoted: But just as a first reaction, this post-election situation looks to me like a crime scene. And here is how I would reconstruct the crime.
srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 13 2009
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