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by harryh 7y ago
The state doesn't even need to invoke eminent domain to build such a road as Khosla has offered several times to sell them the necessary land. The issue is that the state doesn't want to pay.
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by harryh 7y ago
It's obviously impossible to know his mind but it is worth pointing out that beachfront property with, effectively, a private beach is probably worth a lot more money that beachfront property on a public beach. Ignoring for a moment an
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by harryh 7y ago
You are exactly backwards in this statement. Vinod keeps winning and then he keeps getting sued again (by a different party or under a different theory).
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by harryh 7y ago
I'd like to point out that employer side taxes (all the things between "gross" and "super-gross" in your terminology) are very bad whether they are happening in France, the US or anywhere else. The only purpose of l
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by harryh 7y ago
You've misinterpreted the data in that link. That isn't showing per quarter profits, but instead the annualized rate sampled by quarter.
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by harryh 7y ago
It can depend, but it's pretty rare for common stock to be worth anything under an acquihire.
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by harryh 7y ago
There's also the fact that advertisers spend many millions of dollars buying these ads, so they have a pretty large financial incentive to do it well.
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by harryh 7y ago
We keep getting ads for the thing we bought yesterday This does not demonstrate that the machine learning algorithms are doing a bad job. Quite the opposite really. See: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/8756293
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by harryh 7y ago
The idea of the bet was that if there was a bubble in 2015 it would have deflated by now.
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by harryh 7y ago
If I recall correctly, the bet was accepted. EDIT: Ah, I found documentation: "Michael de la Maza, a Boston-based investor and TechStars mentor, has taken my recent bet on valuations." https://twitter.com/sama&#x2F
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by harryh 7y ago
OK sure, there are some tenuous connections, but none of that has anything to do with "Amazon passing $0 in taxes."
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by harryh 7y ago
Corporate tax policy has no impact on the complexity of individual taxes. It's two completely independent sets of rules. Your theory is wrong.
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by harryh 7y ago
#2 is also risky as the investors often tend to ditch the early leadership Significantly less true now than it used to be. And significantly less common in engineering than in other disciplines. A detailed knowledge of the codebase is an
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by harryh 7y ago
Ya, things definitely get more complicated the closer you get to the top. It's also important to remember: What Got You Here Won't Get You There[1]. The next job up often isn't "the same job but better" but instead
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by harryh 7y ago
Being super smart definitely helps. As does a lot of hard work. As does luck. I'm fairly confident that all three matter more than connections. At least in the tech industry.
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by harryh 7y ago
The goal isn't to get a magical promotion from IC to VP because some "elite" "gave you a chance." It doesn't work that way. Really you have two options if your goal is to run a large organization: 1) Climb the
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by harryh 7y ago
I got like 3 of these emails from zappos. At some level you just have to laugh that they're advertising a court enforced penalty.
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by harryh 7y ago
The majority of the money is set aside for victims who can show specific damages. A relatively small portion was set aside for the vast majority of the victims who's information was leaked but not actually used to cause them any specif
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by harryh 7y ago
Reader was written using a bunch of proprietary Google tools, deployed on proprietary Google infrastructure and used a proprietary Google system for authentication. It's hard to even imagine how it could have been split apart from the
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by harryh 7y ago
They could even sell most of the products they murder to someone else for millions. It would have cost Google more money to sell Reader than anyone would have bought it for.
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by harryh 7y ago
If you're a startup you should seriously consider colocation for as many of your workloads as possible The vast majority of startups do not succeed or fail based upon their ability to control their datacenter spend. They succeed or f
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by harryh 7y ago
Inflation has nothing to do with the scarcity of goods. It has to do with the scarcity of money.
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by harryh 7y ago
Indeed there are many many ways in which much of Europe doesn't really respect the ideals of free speech. This is but one example.
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by harryh 7y ago
Yes indeed. Women just don't want to work in one of the fastest growing and highest paying professions in America. They would much rather take lower paying jobs where you don't get free lunches and flexible dress codes at the offi
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by harryh 7y ago
You're basically making a point about the Harvard endowment and like maybe....5 other college endowments? This is a small percentage of the LP pool, so....not all that important to the discussion.
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by harryh 7y ago
Yes, they do. CalPERS is way larger than any college endowment....but it also has obligations that are way larger.
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by harryh 7y ago
The LPs in VC firms are rarely "multi-billionaire" individuals. They're generally institutions like school endowments, or pension plans. These institutions absolutely do need a return on their money to support the needs of th
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by harryh 7y ago
There is a 0% chance that they weren't already planning on doing this before the article came out. You don't execute a CEO search in a week.
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by harryh 7y ago
The use of OKRs goes back to Andy Grove at Intel and while, like any tool, they can be misused they're definitely not just for vanity metrics. Some more useful OKRs might be things like: - Increase number of signups for our app by 10%.
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by harryh 7y ago
What does that do to your argument? It does nothing to my argument. Because the tax incidence would all still be on the consumer of the property. Just like with a rental property: the cost of the property tax is passed on to the renter.

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