Randgalt

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by Randgalt 10y ago
Most likely Bearer Shares: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearer_share.asp
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by Randgalt 10y ago
So, complying with the law means you have no sense of community?
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Morality is not hard at all. It just requires thinking objectively.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Yes. Also, there is nothing wrong (legally or morally) with avoiding taxation.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Wealth is not the number of pieces of green paper in your pocket. It's the things you have and what you can do with those things. I would much rather be a lower middle class person in America today than King Henry hundreds of years ago
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by Randgalt 11y ago
The money could have come from a gold deposit 150 years ago. Who knows. It doesn't have to come from debt. The number of units of currency I have is also irrelevant. The only relevant thing is how valuable those units are to someone el
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by Randgalt 11y ago
If you work in Silicon Valley you almost certainly are subject to the AMT and, therefore, cannot deduct state income taxes.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Facebook wouldn't exist without Zuckerberg. He deserves every penny of it.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
When I buy a stock or invest in some company, I'm taking a risk. That risk is a type of production - it requires me to think and make decisions. Obviously, I can lose in an investment. So, yes, it is a productive activity.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I got it by trading with someone else. You seem fixated on the money supply, which is (mostly) irrelevant in a discussion of wealth and income.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Money changes hands in exchange for something of value. I give Apple $300 and I get an iPhone. Apple takes that $300 and gives it to someone else in exchange for something they value. Money is merely a medium of exchange. The wealth is the
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by Randgalt 11y ago
The better analogy is you have 10 people in a room and only a few of them are producing anything yet they are forced to give a portion of their production to everyone else in the room.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
"earn an absolutely massive portion of all income in the state" - it's not as if the money is just sitting there and 1% are taking most of it. Wealth is _created_. The top 1% _create_ most of the wealth in California. How is
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by Randgalt 11y ago
So does Soros. Moveon.org for example.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
B.S. I've never worked for a place that cared. I'm self taught. Req's always say degree or _equivalent_.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
http://programming-motherfucker.com
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Another person's gain is not my loss. We should not care about inequality. Steve Jobs was 1000s of times more "unequal" than me. Wonderful. I'm thankful that he existed. It didn't cost me anything. I'd like to
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I should mention that the reason this was such a huge problem was that our dependency system at the time gave each group the option of using the "latest" version of the platform library instead of fixed version. Everyone used it.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Guava is what happens when the owner of a widely used technology is inept. Java is in much better shape today.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
It wasn't practical. But that's what we had at the time.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I was the guy at Netflix that had the task of moving the Company from Guava 10 to Guava 11. Guava 11 was backward-incompatible with Guava 10. On the Platform team (produced libraries the entire company consumed) we could only move to Guava
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Yes, of course nothing of worth has been created with English. What bollocks.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
BTW - I wrote a Curator Tech Note about this a while ago: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/TN10
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by Randgalt 11y ago
If you assume that your distributed lock gives you transactional guarantees that you are the only lock holder then you are making a mistake. If, however, you can tolerate small overlaps in lock holders you are fine and this helps with numer
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Why such small thinking? Why not a $100 a barrel tax. Hell, we could pay off the national debt with a $1000 a barrel tax, right?
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by Randgalt 11y ago
There's nothing horrific about Donald Rumsfeld. He was Secretary of Defense. Was he more horrific than any other Secretary of Defense? War is horrific. So is Leftist bias.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I'm on my computer, essentially, every waking hour. I've been this way since I was a boy. I have two passions in life: programming and playing the drums. If I'm not drumming, I'm programming and vice versa. This is what
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Cue the Java haters in 3, 2, 1
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by Randgalt 11y ago
Under stress I sometimes have trouble with calculators. I'm not kidding. It's happened to me in restaurants.
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by Randgalt 11y ago
I side (mostly) with the expert here. I'm now in my 50s and my memory is not what it used to be. Under hostile questioning I can forget my own name sometimes. That said, you'd think an expert witness would keep his cool as he migh

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