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by harryh 7y ago
Facebook does pay US taxes. That is not in dispute. But facebook does business all over the world. The question is about the proper handling of overseas income. How much of that should face local tax rates vs US tax rates? It's a compl
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by harryh 7y ago
The lawsuit is not about ongoing behavior, but about the valuation placed on a one time intellectual property sale in 2010.
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AWS's business isn't making simple things like this easy for solo practitioners who are never going to spend any money. Their business is making big complicated things possible for companies that are going to spend a lot of money
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On a per capita basis those office towers are almost certainly more efficient next to your smaller office buildings. In addition it's only in large dense cities that public transportation (subways, busses, etc) has any hope of competin
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Draw Something was a 9 figure exit (183 million). Also to Zynga.
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no evidence that This isn't true at all. There are numerous studies about regional effects and now even neighborhood ones: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/upshot/luxury-apartments-...
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The first amendment doesn't say anything about ensuring any sort of level playing field for speech from different parties. It says that the government can't make any laws "abridging the freedom of speech." The amendment
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It's worth remembering the specific issue in the Citizens United case: "Citizens United, a conservative non-profit organization, sought to air and advertise a film critical of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shor
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Reducing the ability of someone to broadcast their speech is an impairment. What you have said is akin to saying that if the government banned the publishing of certain books that wouldn't be an impairment on the written word because p
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by harryh 7y ago
Well it's been a day and, sadly, I've received no response. The error also still appears on the publication's own website: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.0015...
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I sent an email to editorial.office@frontiersin.org. If they reply, I will post their response here. Subject: elementary math error in journal article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615184/ was
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Weirdly, as ChrisRR points out, they get the total number of predicted blind + scizophrenic people in the US correct. So it almost looks like more of a typo than a math error. But still.
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Wowsers! That's quite the elementary math mistake in a journal article. I'm tempted to track down the authors and point this out to them.
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An excellent example of complementary goods! :)
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Ya, I dunno if it counts either. Just seemed like an interesting answer so I threw it out there.
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Standardized shipping containers massively decreased the cost of global commerce which is perhaps the most important force in the modern world.
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a Manhattan Project style commitment The Manhattan Project spent about 2 billion over a 5 year period. That's around 23 billion in today's dollars. The 5 year budget for NASA exceeds 100 billion dollars.
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Ya that's true. Apollo was 60-70% of NASA's budget for close to a decade. There's a lot more going on now. If anyone is curios about the details, there's a good summary here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites&#x
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NASA's budget during the Apollo era peacked in 1966 around 4.5 billion. That's about 35 billion in today's dollars. That's a fair bit more than the actual NASA budget of 23.5 billion but it's not all that far off. T
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In the end, you have to pay someone a wage which is....a single number. Say what you want about boiling down the complexities of job performance into such a limited scale, but this is what is required.
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In order for something to be "categorically false" it needs to be false for the whole category. Two thirds is....not the whole.
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Amazon was essentially break even for longer than that. Worked out ok there.
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Landlords don't set prices. They are price takers in the market just as much as tenants.
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There are a lot of tools in the world that are confusing at first but are extremely powerful and useful once you understand their use. implicit is one of them
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The implicit keyword is extremely powerful when used appropriately and not something that should just be shunned completely. My favorite usage is probably in a typesafe Query engine that several people[1] built at Foursquare that is a lot b
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We have several centuries of evidence that private industry is better at bringing innovative products to market than centralized governments.
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The post is an essay about how the government has historically misdirected private resources by poorly assessing threats in times of crisis. Why does that make you think that government should be more involved in healthcare?
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American WW2 mobilization didn't kill ten million people Um, sure it did? Killing a lot of people was, in a sense, the goal.
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I don't have data as to precisely how strong the correlation is I'm actually pretty curious now, and might be go looking for data. It's surely not precisely 1, but I bet it's not all that far off. Especially if you l
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by harryh 7y ago
I already covered this way upthread. Property taxes aren't wealth taxes, they're consumption taxes.

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