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by adwf 12y ago
I can't speak for American tax law, but in the UK there are some common methods of small business owners reducing taxes on income: Small payroll income so that you fall within a low income tax bracket. Top up salary with dividends as t
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by adwf 12y ago
Costing $70,000 for the base machine would be one thing.
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by adwf 12y ago
Exactly. The whole article is tongue in cheek; I think the GP is taking it a little too seriously (or missed the joke - I don't judge in text formats)
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by adwf 12y ago
That would be my guess as well. It's one thing to decide you want a simple forum and have it coded within a couple of days. It's entirely another to spend months creating a stable database library and keep it upto date with all
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by adwf 12y ago
Thanks, that at least explains why they're IPO'ing so late. Still not enough to convince me it's a good buy though :)
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by adwf 12y ago
Surely it's a little late for an IPO from GoDaddy. They've been around for a long time, they're already established as a market leader, there'll be little to no hype. Forbearing a massive success with the new TLDs that
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by adwf 12y ago
That's not a bad idea. As long as you don't have the entire room filled with laptop users ;)
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by adwf 12y ago
Now that it's publicly dead in the water sure. But saying anything negative about your own products while they're still trying to push it as the next big thing? It'll never happen. Any executive that tried would be fired o
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by adwf 12y ago
News flash: Company co-founder and senior executive publicly supports own products!
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by adwf 12y ago
It's not just about you though. In a lecture of 100+ people on laptops, you're bound to have plenty of distracting people browsing youtube, watching flashy videos or somesuch. That sort of thing can affect the people around you ne
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by adwf 12y ago
It isn't in my opinion, but I'd at least accept the possibility in the scientific sense. However, given that the US is the only major developed nation without some form of socialised healthcare - and they pay double what we do
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by adwf 12y ago
I love it when people write good docstrings for their functions. I always write them first and then finish the code. It makes it so much clearer what you are intending to do and helps cut down unnecessary comments.
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by adwf 12y ago
I agree, they seem to be trying to compare unlimited healthcare to unlimited travel. I don't know about them, but I don't tend to go into hospital and ask "Can I have 3 broken leg repairs and some chemotherapy please",
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah they definitely made a mistake going after the NHS first. Even if it might have been a good idea, it's completely politically untenable. A UK politician saying that the NHS sucks and we should privatise/pay for it, would be
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by adwf 12y ago
Considering they are supposed to be "genius" psychologists, who you'd assume have a good idea of what people think, it was pretty bloody dumb to go after the NHS as their first idea! Making the NHS into a paid system, when we
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by adwf 12y ago
Seems like this guy can't see the forest for the trees. Does he really think that this technology isn't going to get applied to mass transit? Buses are an obvious next step, but making a driverless car is the relatively easy fi
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by adwf 12y ago
Not just Apache, Nginx frequently has this problem as well. A decently written bit of documention on how a module is supposed to work and what it does, but very unclear on how the syntax is actually meant to be written.
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by adwf 12y ago
It's an interesting topic in that I remember just how much of a revolution the original Voodoo card was to gaming (for me anyway). These new cards didn't just enable slightly prettier graphics like a new card would today, they en
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by adwf 12y ago
The bond rating will affect the stock by proxy, so it's alright for me. But even the bonds have a decent chance of maturing. They're convertible bonds too, not just standard interest bearing ones. So really, you can treat them
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by adwf 12y ago
Woohoo! I was wondering whether to buy more TSLA. Now I just have to wait a couple of days and buy it on the cheap. They've got plenty going for them in the future: New humungous battery plant, new more reasonably priced mass-market
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by adwf 12y ago
Because healthcare shouldn't ever be a free market. A free market implies that a doctor should be charging as much as he can get for a procedure in order to maximise his profits. Standard econ 101 stuff. However, when someone is dyin
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by adwf 12y ago
A single data point does not make a trend. I think it's highly unlikely that websites are going to get smaller over time, for the simple reason that consumer internet speed/bandwidth gets faster and faster every year. The real in
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by adwf 12y ago
Couldn't they just publish their data online? Set up a definitive record of breeding history (maybe something like they do with horse genealogy), then describe the traits of each seed, DNA profile, etc. This could at least serve as ev
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by adwf 12y ago
Exactly. The moment the taxpayer starts realising the real costs of absurd policies like '3 strikes', 'Zero tolerance' and other nonsense, is the moment that you start having genuine reform in the system. When they reali
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by adwf 12y ago
Basically, the main categories of firearm that are still allowed in the UK are shotguns, long barrel revolvers and small calibre rifles. They're almost exclusively used in rural areas (vermin, hunting, etc.). It's often the case
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, as the UK is an island, we've pretty much only ever had to monitor some clearly defined locations to prevent arms from being distributed (borders, army bases, farms, legacy firearms, etc). Now with 3D printing, they could be manu
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, I have the exact same complaint. Took me 10 minutes to find out how to get the transit layer back. Then I found out it was practically unusable because as soon as you scroll across London, it disappears... Have you tried using Citym
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by adwf 12y ago
Apple may have a great relationship with the music corporations , but not necessarily with the artists themselves. The big businesses are still taking the large slice of the pie and giving the artist very little back. A streaming service
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by adwf 12y ago
I'm always wary of game designers who espouse "balance" all the time. The only place you ever need balance is in a multiplayer game as people like be on an even playing field. In single player games however, too much strivin
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by adwf 12y ago
That's the exact reason that most pop music is marketed at teenagers. For them, it's the first time they've heard it (relatively speaking). As you get older, you've heard all the 4/4 C-major stuff you can stand.

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