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by arkis22 8y ago
True. I'm thankful that Europe was nice enough to give my American company a strategic advantage over their own by complicating their taxes.
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by arkis22 8y ago
I am about to launch a startup. As an American citizen GPDR scares the shit out of me. My app doesn't do anything I consider rude to my users but that doesn't mean European courts can't find something wrong with the way I do
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by arkis22 9y ago
I would guess the conspiracy that the US government paid Kubrick to fake the moon landing.
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by arkis22 9y ago
Kind of like how most of an atom is empty space
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by arkis22 9y ago
I personally prefer this Southpark meme for the situation: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9qmczTQG-9g/maxresdefault.jpg
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by arkis22 9y ago
I love PG's description of development in the Python Paradox: "You push blobs of source code around the way a sculptor does blobs of clay." http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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by arkis22 9y ago
I don't think they're at odds. They are definitely not 100% overlapping though. I would disagree that the only way to become a good entrepreneur is to become unemployable. The best way is, as you say, to have knowledge and skill t
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by arkis22 9y ago
I think your list is mostly correct, but I don't think there's any reason it needs to stay that way. Technology is about lowering barriers to entry, and digital goods and services have high margins and very little (if any) margina
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by arkis22 9y ago
It really is what you hope to see!
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by arkis22 9y ago
I think you're correct. It does place that fiscal incentive. But can you honestly look at the last 20/30 years and say that private companies haven't tried to make the government as ineffective as possible? Lobbying is huge.
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by arkis22 9y ago
If corporations become nation-states it is simply because our government is drastically ineffective. Sad stuff, but it does seem to be happening.
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by arkis22 9y ago
I've been through a lot of web communities. HN is easily the most intellectual, respectful, and diverse. The simple reason is that we like to be here! In the same way that it takes a village to raise a child, your understanding of the
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by arkis22 9y ago
The government is Satoshi Nakamoto.
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by arkis22 9y ago
I personally believe in Amazon, but their metrics are indeed obscene. I don't own any stock, and won't buy any until it pulls back at least 10%, and even then I'd be analyzing why it fell the 10%. The fact is it is rarely too
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by arkis22 9y ago
Aw thanks for pointing that out, my mistake
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by arkis22 9y ago
My favorite streamer for Overwatch, aimbotCalvin has 300,000 subscribers. This puts into perspective how much he makes. Wow.
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Uber’s Driver Dilemma: Fare Hikes and Cuts Don’t Change Pay(wsj.com)
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by arkis22 9y ago
the WSJ obit could give some guidance to that. > Mr. Hefner also paid top dollar for top-rate works of fiction and journalism, attracting iconic writers such as John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut and Ian Fleming, among many othe
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by arkis22 9y ago
According to wikipedia: > The decentralization aspects of the protocol reside in the theoretical support of any identity provider service, while in practice it seems to rely mainly on Mozilla's servers currently So we'd be putt
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by arkis22 9y ago
> 4. Platform level user authentication Sounds like an awful idea to me, I consider decentralized identities a huge feature of the web
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by arkis22 9y ago
>The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. Oh good, at least their in
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by arkis22 9y ago
This assuming that "standing to sue" is equal to justice, which it isn't
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by arkis22 9y ago
An interesting note from his comment: "By 2006 many property markets across the U.S. were destined for a serious correction. Property prices had become unsustainable in an environment of stagnant household incomes, employment insecurit
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by arkis22 9y ago
at the very least, it's better than western union
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by arkis22 9y ago
An easy answer would be that everything is more pronounced while tripping on LSD
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I would have thought it was sex
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by arkis22 9y ago
interest by another name
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by arkis22 9y ago
A real net transfer of wealth only happens if their increase in wages outpaces the increase in costs that they pay because of everyone else's higher wages. Current costs (at least part of them) are a reflection of the cost of unskilled
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by arkis22 9y ago
>In the 22 instances when the federal minimum wage went up, the change in total private employment after one year was positive 15 out of 22 times >What’s more, looking more closely at the relative handful of instances in which employm
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by arkis22 9y ago
>Under the auspices of the Paris agreement, the Obama administration pledged to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by between 26% and 28% below the 2005 level by 2025. Much of that change already is well under way, though, as a result

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