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by Digory 8y ago
Not "insider trading," no. I do wonder if the seller of the condo might have recourse (under the outer edges of deceptive trade practices laws), or if Amazon itself would have recourse (by some kind of corporate opportunity doctri
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by Digory 8y ago
Isn't one theory of granting a government monopoly franchise that it allows pooling of risks related to that activity? PG&E is, in some sense, the government's insurance plan. Other general liability insurance is now priced fo
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by Digory 8y ago
Glen Weyl of Microsoft Research suggests property tax should be charged on self-assessed value -- but the owner can be forced to sell at their assessment. It was an interesting econtalk episode. [0] [0] http://www.econtalk.org&
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by Digory 8y ago
...and some of the current "App X is better" is because App X isn't as far along as Uber. They likely started later, and are still subsidizing drivers more. At some point, they'll all wean drivers out of subsidies, and c
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by Digory 8y ago
Flagged? This is the legal/social equivalent of "falsehoods programmers believe about time."[0] Most people don't realize time is relative and actually hard to pin down with logical precision in every case. Once you sta
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by Digory 8y ago
Of course, it's from society's reference, not your own, that you know when you were born, and how many revolutions have happened since then. And observing revolutions feels like an abstraction to most people, kind of like "se
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by Digory 8y ago
I'm late, but if you're interested in the legal landscape around that issue, Stephen Bainbridge and Todd Henderson published "Outsourcing the Board: How Board Service Providers Can Improve Corporate Governance" earlier t
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by Digory 8y ago
FWIW, Amazon's quickstart doesn't reference its WorkDocs product, which is now "HIPAA eligible."[0] I'm not sure about any over-and-above pricing, but the core service pricing is reasonable, if it fits into your wo
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by Digory 8y ago
New keyboard has a "4x more stable butterfly mechanism." I'm still limping along on a 2012 Air. This could finally be the upgrade.
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by Digory 8y ago
And "issue spotting" here means "identify if there are unusual clauses in this NDA." When lawyers talk about "issue spotting," they usually mean "given these facts, what legal principles apply?" This
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by Digory 8y ago
The other magic is financial. My bet is that they assume free biomass. Once you assume input cost = $.00, things look easy. And, to be fair, maybe this thing makes sense after a hurricane. There's lots of "free" biomass la
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by Digory 8y ago
> "contract a lawyer for consultations." This is a strikingly formal mental idea of how professional relationships begin. It's not quite so formal. You can ponder about "contracting a doctor for consultations,"
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by Digory 8y ago
Our exterminator told us they're terribly common and difficult to 'solve,' especially in a house with a wood shake roof. He suggests ignoring them, unless you find they've wiped out all the other spiders in your house. T
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by Digory 8y ago
The rule in the US is that a university that wants to discriminate based on race doesn't just lose its grants, it loses its tax exempt status.
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by Digory 8y ago
Ward Mundy's nerdvittles blog had a recent overview of the SIP/VoIP market. [0] Looks like he currently recommends Vitelity, VoIP.ms, or CallCentric. Ward's PBX in a Flash projects (business class features on a raspberry pi
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by Digory 8y ago
It could, but probably not. Things are going to slow down a bit, because China and the US are raising interest rates/cutting credit, and Trump is slowing trade. That will expose some markets that are overleveraged, but hopefully we can
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by Digory 8y ago
After GV went down during business hours once, I realized I needed to control the number. It's more expensive than free, but worth it. You can port out a GV number to any telecom provider for a small fee, including any of the big SIP&#
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by Digory 8y ago
It's patchwork. They can't turn you away in an emergency, and Medicaid covers expenses for the poor. An uninsured family member recently had their unexpectedly complicated delivery written off entirely under the hospital's c
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by Digory 8y ago
No reason to think the making of video isn't art, too. And there's almost no way soetheby wasn't in on the deal. Until we have confirmation from a real third party, it's hard to say what really happened at all. The &quo
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by Digory 8y ago
I didn't say church. You seem to be upset that church and philanthropy are not seen as a personal expenses. Cynicism about altruism isn't a good reason to thwack private charity. "Democracy" doesn't always have clea
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by Digory 8y ago
You’re asking what’s different between money that buys something for yourself, and money given away? When you trade money for stuff, you get the benefit. If we’re taxing failure to keep and spend money on yourself, we might as well tax base
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by Digory 8y ago
The idea is that money you give away in a tax year offsets your “income.” The money you give to charity represents money you did not keep, and is not part of that year’s income. The idea that government ‘subsidizes’ charity by not calling
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by Digory 8y ago
Yes, I structured that ambiguously. “...no investors that are not ... members” is true. “Few...investors that are not ... members” is impossible, as you note.
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by Digory 8y ago
Yes and no. LLCs can carry investors, and Delaware is an advantage to some. LLCs can be publicly traded. The typical LLC has few or no investors (that are not managers or members), and it’s unusual for Delaware LLC law to provide much adva
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by Digory 8y ago
Inflation/devaluation has always been that game. The question is why it’s been so uneven. I think all of the areas Patrick mentions are places the government has decided are “multipliers,” and has directed spending or subsidy. I vague
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by Digory 8y ago
It’s investor friendly, if you have investors.
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I’d start with C.S. Lewis’s Miracles for a take by an educated theist. Tim Keller’s talks at Google about the reason for belief cover similar ground.
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by Digory 8y ago
While “literalism” might be close enough for rough grouping, I’ll note that few evangelicals or even (traditional Christian) fundamentalists hold to absolute literalism. The Chicago Statement on Inerrancy is the widely accepted standard, a
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by Digory 8y ago
> it's always been that it's algorithmically selected to promote the best information “Best” being the word doing the work here. There’s been some expectation that Google gives you “best” based on the wisdom of a very large, di
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Right, but google’s premise is/was that it is feeding you the unfiltered view of the crowd. If not the world, at least of American computer users. That’s some signal about invariably qualitative judgments on facts. “Hillary Emails” sh

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