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by dpatru 18y ago
Here's why the current government won't back PG's startup visa idea: Walmart is hated by too many in the Democratic party. A program to create a bunch of Walmarts owned by foreigners will be even more hated. A distinguishing characteristic
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There was an podcast yesterday here about "pricing is hard" or something like that. It was about how to price an enterprise app. One suggestion was to ask the client, "How would you use this app if it were free?" The idea being to find out
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Read and remember a 300 page book in 2 hours(vakil.org)
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Mark-to-market applies only where the value of an asset is at issue. If, for instance, you want your insurance company to have a minimum value for its assets, to insure that they can pay out in case they need to, then you don't care what th
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Money As Debt (video)(video.google.com)
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A theme in Atlas Shrugged is that wealth properly belongs to the people who make it. This includes the right to give it away or pass it to one's family. The fact that inherited wealth may ruin an heir who is not worthy of it does not entitl
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It strikes me as extremely ironic that the government, an organization which uses force to fund massively wasteful, unaccountable bureaucracies, should be concerned that Google, a organization which does not charge most of its users, is gou
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This would be welcomed by those who just want cheap, reliable transportation. Those who see their cars as status symbols and reflections of their own unique personality can continue to pay for the traditional dealer experience.
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Rather than micropayments, I think there's a need for micro-tipping. I may not want to make the mental effort to decide whether to pay 4 cents for an article before I read it, but I often feel grateful to the author of a piece after I read
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Unlike fiat money, gold cannot be manufactured cheaply. This limits government's power to obtain it. Think of Zimbabwe. If you were a wage earner in Zimbabwe, would you rather keep your retirement fund in Zimbabwean dollars or gold? These
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One way to understand the difference between the typical Democrat/Republicanism mainstream majority and libertarianism and is to consider at what level each analyzes government action. The typical politician asks if a law encourages people
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Seems ironic that robots in science fiction were envisioned as menial servants able to do physical tasks too hard or unpleasant for humans, whereas this robot, with it's sleek 35lb body and advanced communication ability yet with no arms se
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The potential problem with the current tax on fuel to fund road maintenance in that a driver's fair share of road maintenance may not correspond to the amount of fuel she consumes. This can be unfair. For example, Bill Gates, who can afford
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Electraflyer.com(electraflyer.com)
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Of course any economic process, when you look at it closely, can appear complicated. To use an old example, think of all that is necessary to make an ordinary wood and graphite pencil. A depth-first investigation of the process shows that
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To "make something people want", you need to know your customer's value system: what's important to him and what's not. This can be hard for startups, especially ycombinator types which may be very low budget, because their own value system
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The problem is this: if the Canadian telecom market were open to competition, why doesn't a new competitor move in and clobber the existing phone companies in the market? I read the article and in two of the three complaints, the writer is
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This should be a warning to those who are clamoring for "net neutrality". Government regulation tends to be justified by claiming it helps the little guy. It inevitably ends up being protection for the big guy. Problems should be viewed as
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Beware the church of climate alarm(smh.com.au)
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Artificial Leaf: Sun + Water = Fuel(technologyreview.com)
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Probabalistic Learning of Programs(metacog.org)
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"This would be the same Baidu that first became really popular when China shifted all Google traffic to its site, and also the site that stayed popular because it made it easy to download unauthorized music." This illustrates why allowing t
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``You have to balance the need for transparency with protecting the public interest,'' Talbott said. ``Taxpayers have a right to know where their tax dollars are going, but one piece of information standing alone could undermine public conf
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Why should working people be forced to finance this?
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You're right about the economic value. I think that the best way to make someone feel valuable is to pay him for his services. A donation made out of pity does not evoke the same feeling of self-respect and usefulness in the recipient. It i
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"But what's the alternative here? 'Happy 13th birthday, son, now go get a job!'?" What's wrong with making 13 year-olds support themselves? Why do parents owe their children support? Why should a single mom have to bust her butt to suppor
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A long time ago I listened to "The Bell Curve" on tape. One of valuable ideas I got from the book was that we should strive to create a valuable place for everyone in society. Everyone, whether young or old, intelligent or not, should feel
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I didn't see the problem with the city's action until I read Amity Shlaes's "The Forgotten Man" ( http://www.amityshlaes.com/books.php ) in which she describes the federal government's fight to displace private utilities with the Tennessee
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BetterExplained links(links.betterexplained.com)
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Guaranteed Profits in Stock Market Options(durangobill.com)
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