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by ckinnan 18y ago
This strikes me as unethical, and probably illegal in the United States. We have a set of consumer protections called Truth in Advertising that probably apply here. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/adv/bus35.shtm
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The don't have a "liquidity issue", they are utterly insolvent.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
They lost more THIS QUARTER than their entire market capitalization. Keep taxpayers out of it!
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Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 Summit Presentation on Tech Trends(morganstanley.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The long-distance phone tax was instituted during the Spanish American War 110 years ago as a surtax on "luxury" good.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
South Korea had booming markets in the US and Europe to export their way out...
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by ckinnan 18y ago
The VAT is directly passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
As a proponent of increased space exploration, it's awesome to see the emerging space race between China and India. NASA (a creature of Congress) has stagnated US efforts by hanging on far too long to the failed and obsolete Shuttle platfo
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by ckinnan 18y ago
You'd penalize the investment gains with double taxation. The person already paid income taxes on the money that was used to generate the $25K. Why should government policy penalize savings and investment?
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Intrade offers futures contracts on various events. It's not betting per se and they can be used as part of a legitimate investment portfolio. It's still illegal here though, the US government will find a way to shut down any kind of innov
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by ckinnan 18y ago
I watch in horror as 60 percent of my 401k drowns.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
If I've learned anything on Hacker News, its not the idea that matters, its the execution.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Here's another good one: http://www.buymyshitpile.com/
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by ckinnan 18y ago
That's not true. The law has already driven new types of futures markets from the United States. And the rules that implement the law (drafts of which apparently are far-reaching) aren't even in place yet! http://www.creators.com/opinion
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New U.S. rules may impact Second Life, other "games of skill" web sites(netfreedomforever.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
There is a flight to security on concerns about the stability of money market funds. If your startup uses money market accounts for working capital/payroll you should make sure the fund doesn't have corporate bond exposure
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by ckinnan 18y ago
McCain-Palin 2008 Campaign Manager Rick Davis: 'This is a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these emai
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Gov. Palin is under the protection of the Secret Service, and it is a crime committed in the context of disrupting a U.S. election, so the full investigative power of the federal government will be brought to bear. Plus I suspect Yahoo wil
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by ckinnan 18y ago
I want a bridge loan for my startup. Instead, I get to pay taxes to pay for this nonsense.
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Soft economy hits entrepreneurs and small business harder(nytimes.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
A million rupees maybe.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
It's about time. Houses cost too much. I mean, compared to my SUV or my laptop, there's just not that much technology there. And most of the improvements in house-building in recent years seem to just reduce the quality of the structure.
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by ckinnan 18y ago
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the
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by ckinnan 18y ago
It's the Internet! Why delete any articles, ever!? It's not like Wikipedia is running out of database space or something. It's dumb to have a subjective "notability" standard at all in a world of practically infinite scale.
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Human exoskeleton suit helps paralyzed people walk(reuters.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Yeah, its one thing to conduct a joint-training exercise and its another to enter with force.
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Internet Explorer 8 To Include 'Stealth' Privacy Mode(informationweek.com)
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Why Amazon's New Elastic Block Store Matters(blog.rightscale.com)
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by ckinnan 18y ago
Our securities laws seem better at creating barriers to entry for startups, and generating fees for lawyers, than protecting investors.
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Gartner: Cloud Computing Is Highly Disruptive(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by ckinnan 18y ago|0 comments

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