abhinavkulkarni

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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
Not a problem, sure California residents have this right of self determination. But then stop using my tax dollar to enable your rent seeking behavior (prop 13) and paying next to nothing towards local development (again, prop 13) while shi
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
Less tech savvy relatives and friends are not on Snapchat/Instagram. Plus, Instagram feels more like a picture book than a musings diary. Basically, Instagram/Snapchat are less 'communicative' (I mean, they have their us
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
> You can't start a side business on a regular work visa. You can't do that on an H1-B either.
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
Very good summary.
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
Most 'breakthroughs' in AI have come from Canada, not Silicon Valley.
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
The companies will keep coming and going. As long as there is a steady stream of startups being funded in SV, WeWork should do fine. In fact, they make it much easier for the startups to bootstrap and focus on their business problem, rather
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
This is a very well written argument. Any time government makes borrowing some asset easier, it gets abused. Subsidies, barring few exceptions are bad for the economy and now-a-days there seems to fairly unanimous agreement among economists
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
@seiferteric: Can you please explain this more? I don't quite understand what you mean by 'open loop'. Thanks.
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
Not if you do a 1031 exchange. In that case, you never pay taxes on the depreciation. It just basically becomes a snowball, you keep on upgrading properties.
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
@soulnothing: WL total?
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by abhinavkulkarni 9y ago
> Decentralization is always costlier. Netflix is faster Because Netflix puts their content in the internet exchanges (IXs) (Netflix Open Connect), bypassing CDNs in some cases, thus getting as close to the users as they can given the cu
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by abhinavkulkarni 10y ago
You know, some of your points are valid. But as another reply to this post stated, there are uses of blockchains outside mainstream industries. In fact, lets talk about faxes. We still have these relics of the past generation in our offices