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by gbacon 9y ago
Why didn’t you consider Perl 5?
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by gbacon 9y ago
A bit of PR spin in Variant 2: Differences in AMD architecture mean there is a near zero risk of exploitation of this variant. Vulnerability to Variant 2 has not been demonstrated on AMD processors to date. Near-zero is not zero.
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by gbacon 9y ago
The different sites have different personalities as well. The main SO can be brutal just because the herd responses can be so swift. Niche categories tend to be friendlier, Aviation.SE for example. Gaming, Movies, and Sci-Fi all seem really
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by gbacon 9y ago
An issue with Stack Overflow is that the site incentivizes people with badges to review and disposition large numbers of questions and posts, which spurs Fastest Gun in the West competitions. For a new user unfamiliar with the culture, this
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by gbacon 9y ago
Good thing there are no thought police on HN.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Taiwan has a growing physician shortage … This does not seem like a positive lesson.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Paywalled.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Buyers compete against buyers, but sellers also compete against sellers. Employees are sellers of labor.
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by gbacon 9y ago
What data do you have to support your concern about creation of hereditary wealth? Why do you believe that property management is somehow special as compared with other businesses whose profitability is tied to a single person?
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Skew-T log (p) for the common pilot(newlangsyne.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Excellent point. Some franchise terms require significant net worth and have six-figure fees, but that is not the case across the board. I have heard that Chick-fil-A’s franchise fee is only $5,000 but also that they are very selective. Sub
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by gbacon 9y ago
In my experience, mid-market firms are financed by smaller local or regional banks with whom the owners have built relationships. Certain industries, such as any where the firm has government receivables, are bankable almost immediately, bu
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by gbacon 9y ago
Where did you find your stats on distribution (“mostly”)? The article mentions other professions without the supply limiting that physicians and attorneys enjoy. “Typical firms owned by the top 1-0.1 percent are single-establishment firms
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by gbacon 9y ago
To assert the existence of surplus value, one must also declare the baseline. For Marxists, the baseline is the “labor-value.” That the labor theory of value is entirely bunk is trivial to see. If you present to a buyer two indistinguishabl
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by gbacon 9y ago
The notion that wealth is a fixed-size pie is central to the long-debunked economic error known as mercantilism.
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Lamé's Theorem – the very first application of Fibonacci numbers(cut-the-knot.org)
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When do n and 2n have the same digits?(blog.plover.com)
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Orthogonal polygons(blog.plover.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Sure, if sufficient care, attention, and elbow grease made it a near certainty that even a halfway competent owner/manager could take out, say, $100k per year to live on, then you might have a reason to be a little indignant toward Thi
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by gbacon 9y ago
I’m guessing by the domain and HN username that the author and OP are the same person.
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by gbacon 9y ago
How then is it possible that some four in five American millionaires inherited no more than ten thousand dollars, according to The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Read the chapter “Economic Outpatient Care” in Thomas Stanley’s The Millionaire Next Door to learn how poorly on average American millionaires pass to their children the skills necessary to build wealth.
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by gbacon 9y ago
So what are you waiting on?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Likewise there must be one better than envy.
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by gbacon 9y ago
I encourage you to read The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley because it will disabuse you of these and many other prejudices.
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by gbacon 9y ago
We hear a lot in these parts about corporate greed, but curiously nothing about state greed.
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by gbacon 9y ago
The flawed thinking that wealth is a pie of fixed size wherein gain by one is necessarily another’s loss is known as mercantilism and was long ago discredited as bunk economics.
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by gbacon 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth
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by gbacon 9y ago
Libertarians reject the initiation of coercion or violence but accept forceful response — at the gentlest intensity necessary — to repel such invasions. For example, a libertarian would be fine with a homeowner shooting dead an armed robb
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Wasteful and frugal proofs in Ramsey theory(blog.plover.com)
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