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by cjy 16y ago
This reminds me of the book "Scratch Beginnings" except that the guy in the book was gone for a year and had the goal of getting a stable job, car etc. It's a good read.
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by cjy 16y ago
Just because the law applies equally to everyone, doesn't make it a reasonable law. It's dumb to charge every entity that brings in revenue a $300 license fee. From the sounds of it, this law applies to every kid who shovels snow or mows
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Ask HN: Review my App - US Intensity Map
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by cjy 16y ago
Manufacturing jobs are disappearing but real manufacturing output has actually been steadily increasing over the last 50 years.
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by cjy 16y ago
It seems there are two issues here: a moral one and a pragmatic one. [edit grammar] 1. Moral Issue: Does society have some claim to the wealth that is created by the most successful members of that society? This is a complicated issue.
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by cjy 16y ago
Because most of the inheritances in the U.S are leftovers from robber barons, land speculators, and plantation owners? Wealth, at least in the U.S. simply doesn’t persist from generation to generation. The wealthiest people today were not
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by cjy 16y ago
I don't think you should throw out "increasingly unlikely" without some evidence. I do worry about our education system. But the idea that it's harder to attain a middle class standard of living then it was in the past is very dubious. And
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by cjy 16y ago
But big companies also receive more scrutiny from regulators. The small business can take advantage of tax loopholes and is much less likely to be audited. There are always gray areas when it comes to taxes and small business don't have t
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by cjy 16y ago
You've learned a lot, so you're obviously not a failure, but I think your post illustrates how draining a winner-take-all field like quantitative trading can be. You can never be sure if your wins or losses are real or just mirages caused
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by cjy 16y ago
I don't think he was being insulting. He was just explaining that the incentives discourage anyone from publicly disproving the efficient market hypothesis.
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by cjy 16y ago
Plug: For dynamic US state intensity maps I created the tool http://www.flashusamap.com/statistics.php
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by cjy 16y ago
I like Tyler Cowen's theory: "[the two variables are] income inequality, and the willingness of wealthier men to marry beautiful women from the lower income and social classes. Women then compete for lucrative marriage prizes." http://www
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by cjy 16y ago
I've been using FastSpring on my site for about 4 months. Customer support is indeed great. I sell software and I like that they have file fulfillment services. After a certain number of downloads/days the link stops working cutting back
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by cjy 16y ago
Some problems: Can't use the tab button to access your states drop down. The JavaScript looks cool, but it is slow and can't be accessed via the keyboard. Can't search by zip or city unless you use a whole address. I would leave the ads ou
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by cjy 16y ago
Why don't we just raise the price of domain names? If you doubled the price you'd make a lot of domain squatting unprofitable. How is it that you need baekdal.dk but not baekdal.cn? Don't they pose the same security threat when it comes t
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by cjy 16y ago
I just had this discussion with some friends who got their PhDs and bought homes. "Paying rent is just throwing your money down the drain" they said. It's easy to ignore the opportunity costs of owning a home. I wrote a blog post explain