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by adevine 10y ago
It seems to me the simple calculation is to see that, currently, the US spends ~$9,500 per capita annually for healthcare (that number seems so crazy to me, but therein lies the problem). The WSJ article didn't go into more detail, but
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by adevine 10y ago
> It seems like your argument is that we can't do it because there are a relatively small number of people who would be better off under the existing system. But by that logic we could never change anything, even if the net benefits
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by adevine 10y ago
(Disclosure - I'm friends with some folks at Indeed.) I'm also curious to what you dislike about the UX. Indeed certainly isn't going to win any beauty contests, but I think they have excellent laser focus on exactly what the
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by adevine 10y ago
> a lawsuit is won/lost not by who's funding it, but by what are the merits of the case I think I have a bridge to sell you... Your statement implies that the quality (and cost) of the legal team does not matter with respect to
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by adevine 10y ago
Yes, good point. But if you did have a type constraint, like C#, you would still need the runtime type info to know what to create. This is legal in C#: public static T Factory<T>() where T:new() { return new T(); }
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by adevine 10y ago
That point is argued in the article: > "There’s been some claims that if the Olympics happen, it’s going to disseminate the virus everywhere, it’s going to amplify it," Frieden said. "Well, we looked at the numbers. The Ol
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by adevine 10y ago
Exactly - except it's gross and results in a lot of annoying boilerplate code for what should be considered a simple operation. Tons of generic APIs essentially do the same thing by passing in the class object in the constructor, e.g.
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by adevine 10y ago
Shorting SF real estate seems like a really, really bad idea to me. There have been a lot of articles recently about the research that SF real estate has been going up 6.6% a year for 60+ years now. Of course, there have been some downturns
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by adevine 10y ago
For me, it's mainly that you know the runtime type of the type parameter, so you can do things like new T() in your generic class.
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by adevine 10y ago
Oh, puhleeze, this is just straight up bullshit. A client-facing banker may need to wear a suit, but no one gives a shit if it's a Saville Row bespoke version. If it's so important for your job that you need an iPhone because an A
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by adevine 10y ago
> The $600 iPhone which I absolutely need for any modern job (thanks to BYOD) I agree with your overall point that things like housing, healthcare, and education are much more expensive today and are much more difficult to acquire, secur
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by adevine 10y ago
But the point is that at the very beginning of their company, Amazon was most definitely NOT profitable. They took in a huge amount of investment money to be able to grow their business quickly - exactly what all these other companies are t
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by adevine 10y ago
I also thought this was a very important quote in today's world. Compare these two quotes: > The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I’ve ended up making decisio
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by adevine 10y ago
> Abusing a monopoly position to unfairly crush the competition is. I don't see Google doing that. Really?! I see a ton of places where Google is leveraging their dominant position in search (which I agree they won because they are
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by adevine 10y ago
In the US, retail sales taxes are never applied until checkout (a practice that drives friends of mine from overseas crazy because they aren't used to it). Is that false advertising? I'd argue that putting the taxes in up front wo
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by adevine 10y ago
> I would very much not like to be manipulated no matter if the cause is "good" or not. The problem is the definition of "manipulated" is not black and white. Consider the relatively recent change in StubHub's f
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by adevine 10y ago
The source report that the article is about has a lot more data and explanations: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/05/11/americas-shrinking...
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by adevine 10y ago
I think that in your head you're comparing this to buying a single domain name, e.g. playing 19 mil for blog.com or something, but it reality Auttomatic is really paying to be the registrar for .blog domains. I can imagine a lot of rea
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by adevine 10y ago
This article by the founder of a well known Austin startup incubator explains it well: https://austinstartups.com/austin-tech-vote-for-prop-1-on-ma...
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by adevine 10y ago
But there is a good argument that your server components (or at least a good portion of them) should be built in a language that requires some more up front work because it makes maintenance easier down the line.
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by adevine 10y ago
Click the "web" link under the article title on HN, then you can access it from Google.
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by adevine 10y ago
Thank you for your extremely clear, to-the-point tl;dr
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by adevine 10y ago
Percentages also don't mean much when you split "rich" vs "middle-class" based on some arbitrary top x% of income. The real difference in the US is between the landed gentry (people who live off their investments) a
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by adevine 10y ago
OK, let's look at the facts of carried interest, which is taxed as capital gains, and do the math on that. A hedge fund manager is paid for his labor by his investors - it is quite literally a transfer of money from investors to the ma
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by adevine 10y ago
I'm totally fine with it being much, much lower than the assets I'll have when I die. I plan to leave the vast majority of my assets to charity, and even if I didn't, I wouldn't WANT to leave a lot of money to my childre
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by adevine 10y ago
True, but Zuckerberg also controls who is on the board...
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by adevine 10y ago
Reddit? I see lots of comments about how people are amazed Reddit has remained (or, really, grown) as popular as it is while still having a very "low rent" UI. I'd actually argue hallelujah that reddit hasn't significant
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by adevine 10y ago
A couple reasons: 1. Legally, Zuckerberg still bears fiduciary responsibility for all shareholders. If he decided to pay himself all the profits as CEO, he would get sued, and lose. 2. Almost all of Zuckerberg's wealth is tied up in hi
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by adevine 10y ago
But note that a married couple gets twice that, so a married couple can give nearly $11 million to their children completely tax free (PLUS children get a step up in basis on any capital assets that are inherited). Only a teeny, teeny perce
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by adevine 10y ago
Actually, you are wrong. FB is doing a 3-1 stock split, but the newly issued shares don't have voting rights. So, in your case, Mark would own 225 shares, but only 75 of those would have voting rights, and 150 would be non-voting. Thus

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