david927

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by david927 5y ago
I'm fine with Steve. I want Amazon to write a blog post to flesh out the criticism.
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by david927 5y ago
Is it just me, or was it a better composition with the empty wall? It's clear that it was there to lend an indication as to the contents of the letter -- but for me, I liked it better when it was less cluttered and more ambiguous.
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by david927 5y ago
Very strange. One person down-voted it. Who could have done that?
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by david927 5y ago
20 upvotes isn't hostile, but your gray comment history indicates that HN is hostile to you . You might want to stop and think about what about your personality might cause that.
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The Universe Is Hostile to Computers(youtube.com)
24 points by david927 5y ago|6 comments
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by david927 5y ago
You're embarrassingly confused; my best guess is that you're thinking of gifts. We're talking about licensing, and MIT-licensed open source projects as well trial periods are both absolutely fine and used.
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by david927 5y ago
Update: Co-founder found. Thanks, HN!
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by david927 5y ago
> You’re offering 50% of a nonprofit and open source project. So 50% equity has no value. Not if this was the only project; it's the first project. > you’re looking for someone that can build the business side of things for yo
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by david927 5y ago
> I can see getting a court system hooked with a long, free trial to do YoY comparison - for the first half dozen forming the core of the snowball. Definitely. But I want to keep this particular product at essentially cost. There are
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Ask HN: Wanted, non-technical co-founder
8 points by david927 5y ago|7 comments
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by david927 5y ago
Could it be that he phrased it poorly? Of course. But if you're unfamiliar with the hubris and elitism that runs wildly unfettered in the Bay Area -- well, lucky you.
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by david927 5y ago
Oh, he's talking about himself and his friends too, make no mistake. In nurture-vs-nature, those who struggle to achieve something understand how large a role nurture plays, and those who win the "circumstance lottery" tend
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by david927 5y ago
It's not a brave or iconoclastic thought; it's actually incredibly common: Throughout history the wealthy have thought of themselves as superior. If they got lucky, it was because they were "super-elite." No one's
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by david927 5y ago
I think everyone would be in favor of well-considered approaches, myself included. But we need to be actively discussing this with a sense of urgency.
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by david927 5y ago
Elon Musk didn't start Tesla.
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by david927 5y ago
> [The billionaires] job is creating companies, jobs, products and services not ending poverty They're being asked to pay their fair share of taxes and instead are using their wealth to find loopholes so that they pay nothing. Th
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by david927 5y ago
That was really well put.
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by david927 5y ago
- Elon Musk took over Tesla and SpaceX. He was not the innovator there. - Did Bezos think of AWS? I think not. It was literally selling excess processing capacity. - Gmail was not innovative; it was just a better client. Web-based mai
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by david927 5y ago
Straw man. Taxation has existed for a long time and has worked well. The only new part would be a wealth tax that caps out to 100% at some level, and only until basic needs are met for the very poorest.
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by david927 5y ago
Billionaires building toy rockets when others starve is equivalent to "seed coconuts"? That's a terrible straw man. There have long been simple answers but we have been to greedy to look at them. We have been able to eradic
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by david927 5y ago
No one owns a car factory; it's divided into shares. And anyone now with $20M can retire. And I don't think the problem would be that so many people hit $20M that everyone retired.
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by david927 5y ago
We already "confiscate others' wealth." It's called taxation. There's nothing new or wrong with it. > you’d find less people fed, less people sheltered and less education Countries with higher and progressive t
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by david927 5y ago
> came from entrepreneurs seeking to build great fortunes $20 million per person is a great fortune. Show me any innovation that came from someone wanting more.
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by david927 5y ago
We have taxes now; this would be a wealth tax.
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by david927 5y ago
Yes, that's a problem. But it's not as big a problem as the current economic divide. The very wealthiest have superfluous amounts of money -- enough to pay to find loopholes so that they pay no taxes. If there was an island with
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by david927 5y ago
You need more than $20 million to be happy? Only having $20 million per person means you need to live in an "old flat?" Such weird logic: I need billions when others have no food.
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by david927 5y ago
What we have now, with billionaires with toy rockets who pay no taxes and a voting system that allows you to choose between two candidates who will both perpetuate that, all while homelessness and destitute poverty are rampant -- that'
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by david927 5y ago
Right now, in America, you have more people suffering from poverty than you have people with wealth. You also have taxation which is regressive, not progressive -- which was what brought on the French Revolution. We can have empathy now, or
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by david927 5y ago
We have that already and it's called taxation. What would change would be that it would include a wealth tax that goes to 100% after that threshold. Oh, but don't worry. Greed is such an amazing motivator that it wouldn't t
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by david927 5y ago
Until there's a wealth floor -- until everyone is fed, sheltered and has access to education, there needs to be a wealth cap. We, as a collective humanity, should not allow anyone to have more than, say, $20 million, until the basic ne

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