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by dkural 8y ago
Yes, it used it's own money - the buyout companies came up with 20% of the purchase price (think of the 20% like a downpayment on a house; they borrowed the other 80%; like getting a mortgage). They lost a lot of $. They couldn'
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by dkural 8y ago
Mortgage interest tax deduction, especially for high-tax-bracket people, is often a major factor in calculating returns and should not be looked over for any 'opportunity cost' based arguments. It's also worth noting that mos
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by dkural 9y ago
Apple's true success came with Second Steve i.e. mature Steve, not first Steve. Amazon, Oracle, Intel founders weren't in their 20s. Microsoft, Google, and Facebook indeed were started by young founders. Twenty years later Google
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by dkural 9y ago
how is it qualitatively more nuanced than that, for an advertising-driven product that's "free" for the end user?
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by dkural 9y ago
Whichever live species you're obtaining the DNA sample from, you can also acquire the microbiome sample, which you can sequence to bank as well. Or the seed-with porpoise microbiome idea. Also for this idea to work, you need more th
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by dkural 9y ago
Your argument as I understand it is "Hey if I/companies don't do what's needed to survive, someone else will do it anyways, and I/companies lose". Just because some other group is willing to do unethical thin
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by dkural 9y ago
Meg Whitman ran eBay when it was 30 people.
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by dkural 9y ago
If they are why not let them vote so we can all see?
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by dkural 9y ago
Xi is saying his rule is needed for China to become a superpower. A country doesn't seem so strong to me, if it depends on any one person's single man rule to become a superpower. A truly strong country does not depend on a any si
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by dkural 9y ago
Here's an article describing some of this: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/presumption-of-gu...
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by dkural 9y ago
If black people don't count, sure. I would argue that the US has not been a full democracy until Civil Rights. Jim Crow laws were in effect until 1965. Also, black people could not exercise their vote, were not allowed to attend univer
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by dkural 9y ago
The article keeps repeating how America is the "most highly evolved liberal democracy", most advanced / modern country etc. This is simply not true. Many European countries have free / low cost education, including high
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by dkural 9y ago
Quantum computing DOES NOT WORK by taking every path simultaneously. This is an incredibly misleading analogy.
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He lost me when he lumped every non-Jewish group in the Middle East as "200 million Arabs" and equated it with the Palestinians; and tried to justify the mistreatment of Palestinian children. The organization Shovrim Shtika (Break
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by dkural 9y ago
I don't follow. A tax cut is called a cut because the gov looses some tax income. This is simply a fact & does not at all depend on anything you/I think about who should have money. Our politics depends on that, but not the f
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by dkural 9y ago
Usually when X "loses" money Y "gains" money. The verb itself is relative. A tax cut means the government collects less tax; so it has less money. That sounds like a loss to me. I think it is deliberately dishonest to re
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by dkural 9y ago
You are comparing operating costs of air travel to capital costs of rail travel - you need far beyond airplanes. The trains themselves are not that expensive, after all. You need to consider capital investment required for that air travel:
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by dkural 9y ago
Did you & your wife get carrier screening?
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by dkural 9y ago
Cochran's popular science book has no scientific backing or support from working scientists and peer reviewed articles. In particular, human genomics can easily refute the idea of brain functional changes in the last 10K years. Our anc
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by dkural 9y ago
The article is factually incorrect: Our brains were as modern 50K years ago as they are now. A major reason is, people are not actually as intelligent or creative as one assumes. We are bad at unsupervised learning. A lot of our learning,
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by dkural 9y ago
A peacock's tail can be seen; how do you propose the other sex fell in love with the brainier homo sapiens? It's a lot more likely that intelligence provided a net benefit.
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by dkural 9y ago
By "run over", you surely mean getting to serve in the best interest of citizens, who elect those politicians. Instead of doing what's democratically decided, they'd rather legally bribe politicians to get the laws writt
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by dkural 9y ago
You're wrong. There are such things as tax loopholes; and this fact is acknowledged by lawmakers, lawyers, tax experts, corporations. People don't like judgment so they say we're keeping with the law. Yes, they are, but by ab
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by dkural 9y ago
There is no law that says you must set up Bermuda, Dutch and Irish subsidiaries, and use your IP to shuffle profits, or other methods, to evade tax in territories where that revenue is earned. Most companies aren't wealthy enough to do
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by dkural 9y ago
Yes, but they don't have the "don't be evil" motto, or executives claiming some vague moral superiority to rest of the corporate world in "making the world a better place".
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by dkural 9y ago
I wholly reject the type of argument where "you can't blame people for being self-interested in a given incentive structure". You certainly can. To take it to an absurd extreme, it is a bit like saying you can't blame p
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by dkural 9y ago
This expose really opened my eyes to how our political system will spend billions for a new station but won't fix broken track signals and chewed out cabling: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion&#
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by dkural 9y ago
I agree - I should've added to my "today's hot things" list though :)
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by dkural 9y ago
I see Slack can be in the "better email" category. Where's stack overflow? Better search engine for hackers? This is a great article, thanks for pointing it out!
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Ask HN: What's the next big thing?
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