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by MCRed 11y ago
It should be tax free. The money was made overseas from products made overseas and sold to overseas customers by overseas entities. Taxing money coming into a country is really bad economics and amounts to just pure greed. Countries should
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by MCRed 11y ago
Apple is still shipping by Air. I doubt there is 30 days of phone inventory, more like 1-2 weeks. They are keeping their supply below 4 weeks, as part of lean manufacturing. Thus their turnover in supply is less than the amount of time i
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by MCRed 11y ago
That's an interesting argument. Certainly to support it one would probably make references to the culture of the time. In the late 1700s there was sufficient level of education to make people think critically and consider alternative
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by MCRed 11y ago
Auto-correct strikes again. I've edited to fix, because it was a stretch to use that phrase anyway. For those who aren't familiar I'm making a reference to a Monty Python skit. Here it is on YouTube: https://www.
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by MCRed 11y ago
You are as soon as they want you to be. I'm not being facetious. The laws, especially those relating to regulating finance, are written as broadly as possible to give them as much power as possible. If you hit their radar, they can se
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by MCRed 11y ago
As these virtual currencies become more practical as currencies, there will be less transactions between them and the banking system. It won't be immediately cashed out after the transaction as they are now.
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by MCRed 11y ago
One thing I've observed many times over the years is that the government likes to have its cake and eat it too. For instance, they ruled that gold coins were legal tender. Then one bright employer started paying his employees in gold
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by MCRed 11y ago
IF you think back to the days when the USA was founded, there was a great many risks facing the new government-- British spies could have been sent to undermine it, criminals of all manner and sort were out there as well. There were any nu
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by MCRed 11y ago
People have started rumors and profited from them using options in the past.... and been prosecuted for it. Don't know what percentage of people who try it are successful and what percentage of those get away with it, I just know charg
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by MCRed 11y ago
I never said it was perfect, or even that I was optimistic about it. I just said the forces are there. Government doesn't have any external force keeping it in check. All of the "checks and balances" are other parts of the
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by MCRed 11y ago
In capitalism, every entity is kept in check by the need to keep employees coming to work, shareholders holding the stock, customers happy enough to come back, and the government off of their backs legally. These keep companies in line. If
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by MCRed 11y ago
I worked for the Texas Center for Superconductivity, where Paul Chu discovered superconductors that operated at liquid nitrogen temperatures, in the 1980s a year or so after his discovery. We spent a great deal of time trying to figure out
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by MCRed 11y ago
I've some direct experience with a similar situation. I can speak to the issue of "why hasn't spaceX or other major company experimented with this". During the "Cold Fusion" era, when Pons & Fleishman had
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by MCRed 11y ago
Who is behind this? Is it the EFF? Because it should be the EFF. I gave money to them years ago to do exactly this kind of lobbying, but they haven't been doing much that I can see-- except posting a lot of blog articles. The EFF se
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by MCRed 11y ago
You ask a good question. I've seen a lot of people express fear. I've seen a lot of claims about startup being killed by patents.... but I've never seen it happen. I've been involved in a bunch of startups over the pa
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by MCRed 11y ago
You're right that Blue Origin is older than SpaceX, as it was founded in 2000 vs 2002 for SpaceX However, SpaceX is using off the shelf russian engine designs, if I recall correctly (possibly off the shelf engines in the early days?[1]
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by MCRed 11y ago
The Electron Shell was previously known as the Atom Shell. So part of it is Atom work.
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by MCRed 11y ago
So is there any reason to use it instead of Atom? (assuming you're not developing with .net or C#)
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by MCRed 11y ago
It is now just a month shy of 20 years since that letter was written. And what did Microsoft do? They bought a browser and gave it away for free, cutting off Netscape at the knees, til the company folded and become the Mozilla Foundation.
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by MCRed 11y ago
It's an "arbitrary" number in the sense that it is the revers of the previous industry standard in the mobile space which was 70/30 in favor of the Carrier. Often times developers would get less than %30 of the revenue
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by MCRed 11y ago
When propaganda is really effective, it doesn't take a genius to be called an asshole. 40 years ago, you can express political views in america without worry of being shamed (called an asshole) or denigrated for it, unless you were bei
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by MCRed 11y ago
Can someone explain hashicorps business model to me? Love all the projects. Are they contracting out features to companies? Selling support contracts? Very curious-- I think if people, especially individuals, can make a living from open so
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by MCRed 11y ago
This is obviously the right thing for Amazon to do and will be a success. The question is, why didn't they do it 10 years ago? As someone who worked at Amazon 10 years ago, at that time, adding lines of business was a key desire of t
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by MCRed 11y ago
Such a plan, I think, would require another method of monetization. Paid apps as a monetization strategy has failed. Advertising I think is failing too. Free with in-app purchase is making a lot of money but people don't like it. This
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by MCRed 11y ago
Why would google do that? Do you think they would tolerate for a second if you violated their page rank patent?
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by MCRed 11y ago
People never really seem to consider the unintended consequences of these kinds of regulations. You know, Apple and Google both were prescient and at different times (late 90s for Apple early 2000s for Google) they both attempted to obtain
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by MCRed 11y ago
The use of the word "denier" which is at best ad hominem, is proof positive of the rejection of the scientific method.
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by MCRed 11y ago
In my opinion, Elixir, plus the elixir frameworks that are out there, plus Couchbase gives you super powers. As and individual developer (though I'm getting help soon) I feel I'm able to accomplish orders of magnitude more faster.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Does Chicago Boss have a lot of momentum? I thought it was idle now that the founder had moved on. It's certainly a fairly complete and mature framework. I'm thinking the hot new kids are: Phoenix: http://www.phoenix
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by MCRed 11y ago
No, but it is part of the reason for its popularity. I think it's silly that we have a generation of programmers who are unwilling to learn a language without a C or Ruby like syntax. But I must admit that I find Elixir easier to read

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