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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Specifically the two ends of the market; direct-to-consumer insurance (GEICO) and insuring things no-one else can, particularly reinsurance and muni debt (Berkshire Hathaway Assurance, Gen Re). If you're good at writing insurance it&#x
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
US Attorney.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Sounds like a job for Markit Group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markit )...
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
The challenge with LIDAR (for the foreseeable future) is ubiquity. If you're building a car, then sure, LIDAR, no questions asked. If you're trying to pair this with say a structure-from-motion pipeline for photogrammetry targeti
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
As a data point here (in your strong favor), consider UK broadband pricing and the effect of local-loop unbundling.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
> As an American citizen, I'm still subject to federal income tax, even on income earned while I'm residing outside the country, for work done entirely outside the country, for a non-American employer. This is a really unusual
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
If you have to file UK tax from outside the UK, then you have to do it on paper or use commercial software, but it costs from about $30 a year, so no big deal.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
It's unreasonable and unrealistic to expect emotional compliance from people who are being wronged .
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tone_argument
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Yep. But I anticipate the Plaid vote will head rapidly upwards – not to SNP levels, but 25% territory.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> We're a small company of 20 (in my opinion) great people and we just have a different relationship with our employees than most other business owners. If that's not embodied in contract then it's, regrettably, close to w
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Britain is over within ten years, that's what today means. Scottish independence, some kind of enormous fudge in Northern Ireland, and Wales beginning to look towards the door. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
I'm very cynical about San Francisco, and given the choice I'd live in London in a second (it's a real city; San Francisco is a playpen, there's no comparison), but the ping-pong table thing is off-base. A ping-pong tabl
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
It's an innocent mistake, but you've inverted the meaning of OP – he's agreeing with you (and saying this is a huge red flag for any experienced execs Uber might want to hire).
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
It's all about the data. The only game in consumer tech is (assuming supply) being able to predict, more accurately than your rivals, what users want. As soon as Spotify are no longer cut off from supply, then the organization with the
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Isn't that functionally just a down round?
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
This is the point where America discovers European liberal political theory and praxis! This is one of their key points; universal healthcare is a hard-L liberal position because only the state can insure certain classes of catastrophic ris
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
'globox nailed it upthread.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
So it is claimed in civics classes, but that's a rather narrow interpretation of "create law".
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> it is not the purpose of the court to create law In common law systems it is precisely their job to do so.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> I think it's just as likely that the people with grievances to air are far more likely to be listened to once an initial scandal breaks. I think both things can be true at once.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
That's actually what I was aiming to say, but the way I phrased it could unfortunately bear both interpretations.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Well, it's not business-as-usual, that's for sure.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
That's more or less where I am, actually; not that this is a conspiracy, but something simpler, more subtle and less organized. I'm positing that the very real and very awful problems at Uber (again, to reiterate; those are the ma
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Absolutely the most important group affected here.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Point taken :-) But I don't think I'm advancing a conspiracy theory. There's a genuine crisis at Uber, and that's the important issue here; if a hundredth of what's been alleged is true then that's the main eve
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> Do you mind explaining that? I'm not sure I follow. This is obviously highly speculative, but Uber is a really leaky ship right now. This could be solely coincidence, but I am positing that – potentially – someone who wants increa
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Investors have functionally no say in how Uber is run (so they can't raise issues in the boardroom); competitors want Uber dead. Two groups with incentive to get the composition of the boardroom changed.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
At this point, it doesn't matter whether he's leaving because of accusations or if he's leaving because of everyone else's accusations – let's assume the latter because that's more charitable. This is what a
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
No-one claimed it was! It's hardball negotiation. In this, the US meets the EU's demands or it doesn't get what it wants.

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