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by chadash 7y ago
There are a lot of advantages that a small privately owned bank might have over large giants. For example: * Banking based on reputation - sometimes you know that someone is trustworthy and good for the money, but the numbers on paper don&#
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by chadash 7y ago
There are many existing banks that cater to rich people.
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They do. I ordered a corkscrew ( https://www.amazon.com/Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Waiters-Corksc... ), got a fake one and complained. Amazon gave me a refund, a $5 credit for the hassle and didn't make me return the fake on
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by chadash 7y ago
Two reasons: - The actors are British (with the exception of one main character who is Swedish and speaks with a Swedish accent) so it's easiest for them to just use their own accents. - For whatever reasons, they didn't want to f
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The first tax rule every startup founder needs to know(dlapiperaccelerate.com)
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by chadash 7y ago
As I said, it wasn't a bug in the end :) The issue was with my formulas, but I don't recall exactly what I did wrong. It was a tiny typo I made a sheet with thousands of formulas if I remember correctly.
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by chadash 7y ago
> Understood as senior: If a junior programmer tells me they found a system-level bug, I won't believe them and will tell them to go figure out what's wrong with their code. My first job was in finance and I remember one time
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by chadash 7y ago
Thanks. I probably misread that and I edited my comment above accordingly.
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by chadash 7y ago
A lot of the comments here are assuming that the author is proposing something that he is not (perhaps making this assumption from reading the title not the article itself). So I'll summarize. He's arguing that rebuilding the inte
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by chadash 7y ago
The definition of obviousness that you give is precise but not much different than the lay person's definition of obvious. I find it hard to believe that having 12 random people, some who may not have completed high school is better th
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by chadash 7y ago
If this were true, then developers would have no problem selling things like unit testing or reduction of technical debt to business folk. Sometimes it's hard to explain something to someone who isn't on your level with a specific
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by chadash 7y ago
If I were playing chess in the park and Gary Kasporov walks by, sees a move that I'm about to make and says "that's a mistake, I'd recommend against that", then I'd be an idiot not to strongly reconsider my mov
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by chadash 7y ago
> The move isn't good because Kasparov said it's good; Kasparov said it's good because it's a good move. Which means that if you asked him, "Why?" he would give you some reasoning, which is the real Y for wh
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by chadash 7y ago
> Appeal to authority (argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam) – an assertion is deemed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it. You have to be careful with this one. When someone has enough cre
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by chadash 7y ago
> Why not just get rid of the entire Constitution then? The idea of changing our constitution from that of a liberal republic to that of an authoritarian state should be universally met with disdain. But it's wasn't universal
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by chadash 7y ago
I'd agree with this. But in that case it isn't free information. I mostly take people issue with people who say that all information should be free, yet still expect there to be a viable way to make the economic incentives right.
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by chadash 7y ago
I saw an article that about 2% of Patreon patronees make above federal minimum wage which is still way below a living wage. There are a tiny handful who make a lot, but for the most part this isn't a model that is working for people wh
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by chadash 7y ago
Sure, I'll quote the original source linked to above from economist David Levine (who makes the case against copyright): "we find that France, where copyright is introduced, the number of composers per million increased substantia
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by chadash 7y ago
This isn't correct. $90 million TV shows exist because after a studio creates that show, they have the exclusive legal right to sell it to distribute that content. Otherwise, nothing stops Netflix from just taking Game of Thrones for f
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by chadash 7y ago
He's not talking about ROI for the consumer, he's talking about ROI for the author who put time into writing a novel. Take Dickens, who was famously opposed to the lack of copyright laws in America at the time and felt that he w
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by chadash 7y ago
I tend to agree with you on this specific example, but there's also plenty of work that IS good quality in my opinion that wouldn't get funded if the entity funding it didn't get exclusive access to distribute. I would say th
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by chadash 7y ago
The quality stuff also doesn't get written without copyright. Take Charles Dickens, who rallied against pirating of his works. Luckily he had the protection of British copyright law, so he still had motivation to publish. Or take the G
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by chadash 7y ago
Let's take Game of Thrones, a show that I'm sure many people reading this thread watch. The final season cost $90m to make. Would this investment have been made if not for intellectual property rights that give HBO exclusive licen
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by chadash 7y ago
As you say, it's usually a paltry amount. I doubt that many make a a decent living off of this let alone enough to pay support staff such as editors and the like. The biggest issue is the free rider one... why should I pay you when oth
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by chadash 7y ago
> Information should be free. Humanity as a whole benefits from free access to it. There's no question that humanity benefits from free access to information. But humanity also benefits from high quality information, and the way you
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by chadash 7y ago
Am I the only one who feels that authors should be paid for their work? I'll go a step further and say that I think that authors offering up their work for free hurts the entire ecosystem, since it gives consumers the expectation that
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by chadash 7y ago
> * I get calls from recruiters from time to time that do this as a matter of course.* If this gets widespread adoption, then recruiters and legitimate robocalls will come up with solutions. The problem I have is that if I block all unkn
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by chadash 7y ago
There are different philosophies, but it comes down to how you want to balance type I and type II error, where: Type I error == false positive == hiring someone who isn't qualified Type II error == false negative == failing to hire som
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by chadash 7y ago
The problem is that if you don't have any screening, then you get a flood of candidates, and it takes someone's full time job to sift through them. HR needs to be well trained on what to look for, but they are often a necessary ga
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by chadash 7y ago
I've been on both sides of this. As an applicant, sometimes it's a crapshoot in terms of getting lucky that they asked me the right question. On the other hand, as a hiring manager or interviewer, I see lots and lots of candidates

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