Digory

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by Digory 7y ago
Cars by Bird, Sedans by Lime. It seems less promising, now that I see the piles of scooters in downtowns.
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by Digory 7y ago
It is striking to see you say it, given the decades of immense cultural pressure to convince young Americans that of course you should be willing and happy to seek out sex with old billionaires -- it's fulfilling! It's so hard t
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by Digory 7y ago
Yes, it depends. I mean, there are independent contractors, and they get 1099s. But I'd find it miraculous if the job you just described was upheld as an independent contractor.
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by Digory 7y ago
This is a common misconception, but terribly incorrect. Talk to a lawyer.
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by Digory 7y ago
Yes, the liquidity risk seems the more interesting piece. He seems to say that if you have trillions of dollars in ETFs, you should be seeing more volume in the shares in these indexes than we actually observe. So some of this cash is going
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by Digory 7y ago
Already common in China, under Wechat/Alipay.[0] The key is to get widespread adoption. Presumably FB Libra would cover this. [0] https://www.asiaone.com/china/no-loose-change-beggars-china-...
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by Digory 7y ago
Link? The 41% figure is usually the Williams survey[0] in 2014, which doesn't exactly say that. [0] http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFS...
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by Digory 7y ago
(note for posterity: the survey was just of Eastern Oklahoma voters, not nationwide. I don't know if the same held true outside Oklahoma.)
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by Digory 7y ago
That study specifically says Native Americans aren't as loyal to Democrats as other minority groups. In the survey at the heart of the paper, "a majority of American Indians voted Republican in the presidential and U.S. House elec
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by Digory 7y ago
[ed. I stand corrected. Article says they have an Obama-administration official lined up.] Odds are the Cherokee would appoint a de facto Republican. They're largely conservative and entrepreneurial Oklahomans. The Cherokee Nation runs
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by Digory 7y ago
The phrase you can Google is "clickwrap." It's a variation on the old practice of telling buyers they were bound by the terms on the box when they opened the shrinkwrap. At the level you're asking, yes, it can be binding
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by Digory 7y ago
Clients with any kind of pricing power demand billing in tenths. They hate to see "Phonecall - .25hr"
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by Digory 7y ago
I don't know of any US bank that uses a notary in quite this way. It's not a notarial act under the model notary act. A notary can acknowledge the depositor's claim and identity, but can't be held liable for the deposito
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by Digory 7y ago
Not in the States. Our notaries glance at your ID before they countersign a document.
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by Digory 7y ago
At one point, it was both luxurious and practical. I remember when it was the only store in town to have jamon iberico. Its macaroons were huge mounds of coconut. Its Brie on baguette was a guilty pleasure ... at $10! Eataly is the intern
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by Digory 7y ago
Haha. Someone killed a "what, me worry?" comment. Guess that shows how little Mad impacted the next generation.
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by Digory 7y ago
> Mission cities... Last week: "In partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, UC Santa Cruz will be removing the mission bell that is located on campus. The bell was originally donated to the campus by a local women’s club many y
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by Digory 7y ago
Yes. I saw a Fed Reserve big-wig say in a closed room that they'd conquered the business cycle ... just before the dotcom bust.
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by Digory 7y ago
I'd guess the print part was the downfall. The Faires were licensed and should have been cash cows (I see local one is still selling tickets).
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by Digory 7y ago
I never thought I'd live to see the day the Riggios ran out of ideas to squeeze more cash out that business. They've been experts at killing a business slowly. Maybe only Sears has done a better job of extracting value from a deat
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by Digory 7y ago
You're on the right track. A couple of rules of thumb: 1. An LLC's liability protection kicks in when you start to deal with others. 2. For the first LLC especially, you should measure the value of what's at risk, not the &#
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by Digory 7y ago
Even if you're pre-investment & zero profit, the LLC gives limited liability to owners, usually at less cost than a corporation. And if you need to convert, it will be easier to convert an LLC to a Del. C. than to create a Del. C.
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by Digory 7y ago
Of course, the problem isn't capitalism, so much, as the glorification of monetary accumulation uber alles. We used to encourage far stronger social capital (think single-income marriages); that's become a luxury good. And what Ga
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by Digory 7y ago
I’ve felt a general decrease in retail experience in the past year or so. Maybe Amazon is eating everybody's lunch. But labor is tight, and employee quality is down. NYT reported yesterday that we are well past full employment -- beca
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by Digory 7y ago
Captive breeding for conservation has been a long term issue, and needed international help. There's a reason the World Wildlife Fund's logo is a panda. https://www.fws.gov/international/animals/giant-pan
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by Digory 7y ago
Not directly tied to the trade war. China has been declining to renew all of the international panda "loans" as they expire. They now have the breeding expertise in country. So it isn't retaliation, just another example of h
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by Digory 7y ago
Civil Juries are asked to make a probabilistic decision, not a definitive decision. The filter end up being whether it is "more likely than not, to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty" a cause of the harm.
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by Digory 7y ago
For HVAC, it's data logging and more complex energy efficiency strategies.
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by Digory 7y ago
Every time I go to Cheesecake Factory or Red Lobster, I can always think of better replacements at the same price point. I think some of it is cultural. Like BdB, these restaurants cater to a little gluttony. Portions are generally HUGE,
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by Digory 7y ago
This is somewhat similar to findings that "sex harassment" training does nothing to reduce harassment. But it is interesting that this study is only 38.5% American; presumably international businesses aren't training for US l

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