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How Microsoft gains a foothold on mobile(curtgeen.com)
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by curt 14y ago
Remember all wage comparisons over time are basically useless unless you are comparing total compensation. You have huge costs that change over time such as federal employment taxes, unemployment insurance, workman's comp, 401k, and especia
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by curt 14y ago
Highly doubt any of the countries that exist today will exist 500 years from now. Honestly I highly doubt most of them will exist 50 years from now. Most developed countries are headed for their day of reckoning as the bills for their welfa
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by curt 14y ago
The libertarian viewpoint is very simple and not the dog eat dog world people here are making it out to be. Libertarians such as myself believe that people should be left alone to make their own decisions and live with the consequences, exc
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by curt 14y ago
Here's a series of charts that show what percentage of income taxes are paid by each group (top 1%, 5%, 10%, etc) and their overall share of total income. As you can see the top 1% earn about 20% of total income but pay 40% of all income ta
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by curt 14y ago
All those things you listed that a start needs from the government, they only account for about 26% of the budget. So... $6.6M down the drain.
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by curt 14y ago
Your entire premise is flawed since they all apply to companies in the stock market not a company sale. It's unrelated to my original statement but.... Investment vehicles, such as a 401k, do pay capital gains taxes just not on the sale the
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by curt 14y ago
Sorry, but this is how I was taught and how I've seen a lot of VC's do it. They take their assumptions which include revenue projections, required rate of return, risk premium, future dilution, and of course the tax rate. They then plug tho
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by curt 14y ago
It's not that it will discourage founders, it will discourage investors since they'll need a higher return to achieve the same after tax profits. What's more likely is investors will require a larger percentage reducing the founding teams o
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by curt 14y ago
Missing for those in technology hoping to sell the company they build: Capital Gains Rate is likely to increase from 15% to 23.8%
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by curt 14y ago
A shipping container last time I looked cost $6k. Air freights really won't add that much cost to something the weight of the iPad, less than a dollar.
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by curt 14y ago
Teachers work 9-months out of the year. Here's the site: http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2011/12/22/the-teach...
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by curt 14y ago
"partly because of low pay" Teachers are actually some of the highest paid people in society. When you don't include benefits teachers make about $40/hr while engineers make $42/hr. If you do include benefits, a teachers compensation far ex
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by curt 14y ago
I've had the pleasure to meet a couple President's and a VP of the United States, Governors, hit golf balls with a Hall of Fame running back, drink with Mark Cuban and more just because I saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. As an e
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by curt 14y ago
Someone in the comment section of the article linked to a fascinating chart: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb77t0ygoF1qfrvjzo1_1280.p... It shows bit-coin value to USD, gold, silver, and crude. It's fairly stable against the commoditi
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by curt 14y ago
Sorry have quite a bit of overlap between the two points. Rates themselves are very abstract quantities since loopholes and deductions have a huge effect and change greatly with time. A good way to look at it is the percent of total tax pay
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by curt 14y ago
I was referring to how you can't compare specific tax rates over large differences in time since behavior changes. Instead you need to look at tax burden through GDP and compliance costs. But to answer the question, all that's doing is disp
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by curt 14y ago
>the top 400 tax payers today pay income taxes below 16%. According to the best available figures, the top theoretical tax rate during the 1950s was over 90%, but the average tax rate paid by the top approximately 400 people was 51.2%.
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by curt 14y ago
Please know that in periods of "high personal tax rates" business owners declared their income through their companies thereby lowering their tax rates. You would have a company car, company vacation, company dinners, you can even make it c
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by curt 14y ago
Before anyone believes this garbage please know that in periods of "high personal tax rates" business owners declared their income through their companies thereby lowering their tax rates. You would have a company car, company vacation, com
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by curt 14y ago
The really interesting part if I understand the recent Supreme Court rulings is that Federal Law would no longer apply to those firearms since they regulate commerce between the states. Since it would be built all within the state (Montana
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by curt 14y ago
...or the fact that's it's increasingly looking as if cosmic rays cause cloud formation thereby controlling climate change. The climate is a chaotic system and by it's very definition you can't predict or model said system. No real scientis
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by curt 14y ago
It's FAR more expensive to produce in the US, Usually between 2x-4x. I do prototyping in the US and the companies that I use also do small-medium production runs. You can find them in the Manufacturing thread I wrote.
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by curt 14y ago
They could be moving into "other" markets as well. Version controlling for design? Think that'd be a huge market especially with a simple interface.
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by curt 14y ago
Their wikipedia page said 7 months in total, with a 90-day on-site construction time.
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by curt 15y ago
Smart think to do would be to make it two pieces. Take the existing card reader but have an additional attachment that does exactly what you said, add stability by holding onto the corners. If a customer wants something small, they have tha
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by curt 15y ago
Had this recently happen to me a few months ago. They did three phone screens over two weeks but missed dates a few times. No biggy, shit happens... Said they were flying me out a certain date and then the day before said oops we didn't get
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by curt 15y ago
San Francisco, CA TinyCo Mobile gaming startup hiring everything: iOS, C++, Python, Product Managers, UI/UX, Artists, Game Designers, Data Analysts. See all the positions here: http://tinyco.com/jobs.php Joined recently as a Technical PM
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by curt 15y ago
There are only two profitable high-speed rail lines in the ENTIRE WORLD. One in Japan and I believe the other is in France. High speed rail just doesn't make sense especially in the spread out urban centers that make up the US. The last mil
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by curt 15y ago
MBA is definitely much much easier than getting an engineering degree. Went out to the bars 4 nights a week during my MBA and only did the same once a week during my undergrad. Everything is softer, the said part was that they had to dumb d

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