IanDrake

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by IanDrake 9y ago
It seems like every time I read a NY Times opinion it comes from someone who has never seen much outside their urban and/or suburban existence. It’s sad really. They don’t know what they don’t know, but they really should know they d
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https://www.perfecttableplan.com Last I knew this was a solo dev doing great work.
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So true. I wouldn’t argue against your point, especially when you’re talking about straight dollars. I was trying to be more general though. Forget money, think effort. For almost $0 dollars there is a ton of opportunity out there. Let’s ju
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Ok, you wholly own and operate a C Corp. To keep it simple, it only has two employees, you and Jack. Your business has negligible expenses and has revenues of 150k this year. From that, you pay yourself 100k to run the business and Jack get
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Ugh, seriously kid, I’m not sure I can argue with someone who doesn’t understand the difference between net sales (your 60B in 4Q17) and operating income. It must all seem like a vast capitalist plot to you and no one can tell you different
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I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or someone baited a line with this garbage and you just swallowed it whole. Would it make you happier if corporations paid their 35% tax rate before paying their employees? That would leave 35% less money to
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This is a pedantic point. The source of the wealth employees are paying taxes on comes from the corporation. Amazon either retains the earning (doesn’t grant options) and pays income tax on the retained earnings OR grants the options and th
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One big point in the article was the option grants worth almost 1B. They fail to mention that the recipients of that 1B pay income tax on it. The article stating that it’s a non-cash expense is meant fool the uneducated to think it’s a fre
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You can’t win if you don’t play the game. The more you play, the better your odds. Sure, you can play often and hard and still lose. It’s even possible to play once, not do much, and win. The probability of those outcome are vastly differen
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I wonder if journalists will ever tire of writing disingenuous articles like this. The uninitiated in business will understand this as another company contributing nothing to the tax base, but they’re intentionally leaving out the other sid
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Wow, this is meta.
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First, read the parent comment. The parent is asking specifically about “leftist”. Second, why do I see it that way? Because at the end of the day that is a legitimate way to divide people. While some will attempt to divide people based o
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Strange that you don’t know “the left” means, but here you go... http://slideplayer.com/slide/726731/2/images/1/The+Political... I didn’t say billing fraud was a problem with government run healthca
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That seems like an accurate TL;DR to me. Somehow the author wants to tie school shootings to lack of healthcare, I assume he thinks a single payer system would fix this. However, it's not as if we went from a national healthcare system
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No they don’t. Seriously, you watch too many movies. Corporations have no power over you. You can voluntarily do business with them, but they don’t have the power of coercion. Please name one instance where a corporation had the power to fo
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Unless corporations have the right to coerce you (which only government can grant them), they have no power over you. Walmart is one of the largest corporations around and they have no power over me. I can voluntarily work or shop there, b
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Chinese culture is pretty different from ours (from what I read). I’m not sure one can pin longer work hours on work ethic alone. As I understand it, China has a gender imbalance and there are not enough women. Men therefore must be success
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That doesn’t make sense, unless you meant... If one governs your rights, you don’t have any. Freedom isn’t government granting you rights, it’s government protecting you from coercion. If government is the source of your rights, then govern
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As far as running turbines go... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
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Why would a company be better off? You never explained that. A company hires individuals. If you want someone who is underperforming, why does that underperforming person need to identify as an underperforming intersectional group? If a bla
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I know, I know, down vote me because it’s not PC to point out that leftist thinking is racist.
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Relevant: https://youtu.be/odB1wWPqSlE
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I’m from a different generation, but at 18 I don’t think I had a clue. I took whatever loans my dad told me to take. Luckily for me my father can do basic cost benefit analysis and could see a MIS major is worth a 40k loan. I guess what I’
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Something I always wondered... if I train an AI using copyrighted material, say Harry Potter, do I really own anything it generates?
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>Before you downvote/call me a Nazi, I'm a mixed race woman in tech. That maybe one of the saddest statements in the history of modern discourse. It’s not your fault for saying it, it’s that you needed to say it. We have reach
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No. You’re not dealing with reality. Reality is that African Americans are not doing well as a segment of the population, for whatever reason. Reality is that compared to men, women aren’t as interested in STEM, for whatever reason. Reality
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Wow. Thanks for the link.
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“suggested women may be biologically inferior engineers“ It didn’t say that, but let’s not let truth get in the way.
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Using GoPro-branded surf camera mount, tether, and float. One time the tether broke, the other time the tether pulled the plastic bit off the board. Neither time did the float help me. Both times were in pretty heavy 2’ overhead surf and my
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The biggest problem I have with GoPro is price. I've lost a few cameras surfing and I'd be willing to give up quality for a concession on price. Alternatively, if they made their product more find-able through some sort of tracki

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