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by crdb 10y ago
Why, again, attack the man instead of the argument? It's especially grating when the entire thread is about ad hominems. Saying that Scott Adams has been known to be irrational is at best tangential to the example he gives to qualify w
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by crdb 10y ago
> considering that the quote was the entirety of the post, I don't see how you can then claim that responding with a second quote discrediting the first is in some way responding to the person and not the argument The first quote la
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by crdb 10y ago
The problem is that language is much higher bandwidth than the information content of the words. Context and implicit shared knowledge play a huge part and should be taken into account when assessing someone's words. Both the quote, yo
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by crdb 10y ago
Responding with an ad hominem - whether at the author of the quote or the poster of it by association - is both an ineffective response (the appeal to emotion signals an inability to argue rationally) and lowers the quality of discussion (b
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by crdb 10y ago
If you mean the fund(s), I disagree. The strength of YC is the relatively large value they provide in exchange for your equity. Their "price" is still excellent and continues to clear the market. This becomes rapidly obvious if yo
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by crdb 10y ago
This is a false equivalence. Pot smoking is victimless (at most, your landlord will need to get rid of the smell for the next non-smoking tenant). Murder has, by definition, serious consequences for someone else. In a legal system whose pre
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by crdb 10y ago
Sites like CrowdFlower have point-and-click interfaces that allow you to just upload a CSV and drag and drop its columns as fields in your task template. What I used to do was host the images on a server, publicly, then upload the URL of th
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by crdb 10y ago
Thank you. This is the best available solution and I didn't know about it. We'll probably go with it for now, until we hit a scale of tasks that justifies setting up a US subsidiary and dealing with the IRS.
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by crdb 10y ago
Hi Alex, thanks for your email. Replying here for the benefit of other readers. We can't use your product for the same reason we can't use most of the alternatives on the market: there's no way to push tasks with custom HTML&
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by crdb 10y ago
Thanks for offering, but I doubt this methodology will scale. We really need a stable company with a product we can trust will both be around in 5 years and that can handle large volumes of tasks.
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by crdb 10y ago
Looks like a neat site, but it doesn't allow us to structure the task (use an HTML template). The flexibility is important.
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by crdb 10y ago
For my clients, the standard use cases for e-commerce. For example, you might have 100,000 products plus another 5,000 new ones listed per month. Your human error rate might be 3%. When a product arrives, its buyer (the corporate person res
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by crdb 10y ago
I could, but it's time consuming and I'd have to deal with the IRS. By not operating in either the US or the EU, I save myself a lot of administrative trouble and potential tax liabilities.
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by crdb 10y ago
A way to use Mechanical Turk from outside the US. I've needed it with every client I ever worked with, and I need it now and know a dozen companies who do. CrowdFlower has a de facto monopoly on the outside of the US supply and charges
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by crdb 10y ago
It's not just comfort, it's signalling. A company with a laid back culture, open kitchens, free food, a nice expensive architect-designed office is signalling that it is prosperous ("we don't cut costs here, we don'
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by crdb 10y ago
If you want an example of straight bribery, which is sufficiently far in the past to be non-partisan, try Rick Santorum with Accuweather. Accuweather employees (mostly the head and his brother) donated $10,500 to his PAC and he subsequently
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by crdb 10y ago
Technically, the relation (value) is the set of tuples (i.e. the data itself, "the true statements", the rows in the table), the relation variable is what is defined by CREATE TABLE (i.e. how the data is constrained, "what
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by crdb 10y ago
I see it differently (and have used "true" ride sharing services in Europe, like Blablacar). There is spare capacity in cars on the road, if you fill it up, regardless of the dynamics of how it happens, it's ride sharing. I m
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by crdb 10y ago
> Passengers don't share the ride with other customers I beg to differ. I just took an UberX from Changi Airport to home, a 30 minute ride during which the driver took on and dropped off a total of 3 other passengers. The cost was a
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by crdb 10y ago
It won't be as pretty, but I deal with large data models all the time, and like to use SchemaSpy [1] which generates an interactive page in HTML and can be used on the command line (I guess you could always modify the CSS to make it pr
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by crdb 10y ago
> real estate tax evasion in Vancouver If your problem is tax evasion, the solution is enforcement. If it is a big problem, it will pay for itself when solved.
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by crdb 10y ago
Right, then let me reword, since I used the wrong wording: if you are resident in Canada for tax purposes, wherever you are resident is tax free if you own it. Otherwise - including a single day residency a year - it is taxed.
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by crdb 10y ago
Well, I can't speak for Canada, but in most countries I've lived with the exception of the UK (non-dom rules) global income is taxed in your primary residence. So if your main economic activity is in Singapore and you declare your
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by crdb 10y ago
This used to be my position as a committed (or idealistic, young) libertarian, but, following the principle that you should be able to do anything so long as it does not infringe another individual's rights : - there is such a thing a
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by crdb 10y ago
A step in the right direction. However, the rule ought to be pretty simple: if it's your tax residential address, it's your home. Anything else isn't. If people want to invest in stuff, let them go for stocks, where their cap
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by crdb 10y ago
I've seen much more than 15%. The US businesses run regular discounting that can make every day, branded goods as much as 70% cheaper. It doesn't look that way online anymore because many businesses have sprouted up with overseas
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by crdb 10y ago
Thanks, done.
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by crdb 10y ago
For those who think this is addressing a relatively small problem, one of the major Australian banks analysed [1] the accounts of 1 million of its customers (1 in 22 Australians) in 2011 and found that 74% of e-commerce by revenue was cross
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by crdb 10y ago
> our real goal is to 10x or 100x the number of startups that we help, and Fellowship in it's current form couldn't easily do that Do you account for the effects you have on the rest of the community when calculating your impac
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by crdb 10y ago
As for how it got to promoting Mugabe into turning one of the most prosperous nations in Africa into the new Weimar Germany, one interesting reading of the situation: The Rhodesian Selous Scouts (the new, mixed race, elite force responsible

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