Brandon Smietana

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics’s more inclusive U-6 unemployment rate is at about 17.5 percent"

Dr. Hasan, government surveillance, and free speech http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg...

Percentage Effects of Attractiveness on Hourly Earnings (and Percent of Workers Rated Below- or Above-Average) http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty...

The Failure of Bankruptcy Reform http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2009...

"... average U.S. third-graders have a reading mastery of only 1,800 words. " #quote

The Rule Of Law Dies A Little Bit More http://www.google.com/reader... #ACLU

Local Police Want Right to Jam Wireless Signals http://tinotopia.com/wordpre... #EFF #ACLU

The government as Santa Claus http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg...

Over 50% of children from top quartile income families have college degrees; only 10% from bottom 50% income families attain college degrees

"A post-industrial society, bring primarily a technical society, awards place less on the basis of inheritance or property... than on education and skills"

"the American system of higher education is sufficiently stratified that its main function is to reproduce for each generation the status positions held by their parents"

Fwd: Google's Broken Hiring Process - Google - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5392947... (via http://friendfeed.com/peterno...)

Fwd: New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths - http://www.theonion.com/content... (via http://friendfeed.com/ericlog...)

"the marginal cost of digital information is essentially zero" #quotes

Another child murdered by the FDA http://shagbark.livejournal.com/56404... #FDA #health

"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education" -Paul Erdös #math #television #quote

What is an Islamic investment policy? http://www.investopedia.com/ask... #finance

"past studies indicate that self-motivated individuals are two to ten times more productive than their non-self-motivated counterparts."

"Every group is really just a permutation group in disguise" #math #quotes

"Wealth, power, and popularity, in this system, attach to the positions that individuals occupy, and not to the individuals themselves."

"knowledge, unlike wealth, is an inexhaustible resource. Therefore, human capital does not operate by the laws of diminishing returns."

"Change occurs because there is a gap between what is and what should be."

"Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul"

"It is likely to be a non-participatory event for 99.999% of humanity" -Stross on the singularity #future #singularity #quote

"Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!" Henry IV

"opportunities are irrelevant unless taken advantage of, and people vary widely in their ability to seize opportunities" #entrepreneur

“Transhumanists view human nature as a work-in-progress,” -Bostrom #quote #future

"Those people lacking sufficient overconfidence to assemble resources are selected out of the entrepreneurial process." #entrepreneur

"We must become the change we want to see in the world." #quote

"The consumer is our boss, quality is our work, and value for our money is our goal." #entrepreneur