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by jarek 12y ago
A non-VC-funded service where users are the customers
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Did you have "data surveillance" in mind when you wrote "Further, we will never know what he sold to Russia to earn his welcome"?
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Really curious how you feel about Litvinenko's work with MI6. Western agent and traitor to Russia should be non-controversial and not bad from Western point of view, but how about the dirtbag?
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If you ask them, most developers will have something about the current codebase they would like to improve, or a 20%-like project that might improve the products. You can have them do this during times of over-availability.
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> But if increasing vacation time makes your employees happier and you also get more productive work out of them, why don't the companies that switch then get all of the best employees and eat the lunch of everyone else? Because mar
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> That's not really a rebuttal. Sure, maybe we can ask that question about those things too. Why not? I gave my questions as examples of large groups behaving unoptimally. That happens all the time everywhere, so using the "wel
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> Can it really be the case that the vast majority of US companies are too short-sighted to make a policy change that would be in their own best interest? You can ask that about anything. Are the U.S. banks really so short-sighted to off
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Picture is only illegal if you display it and say "I support freedom" with a wink. Don't wink and there'll be no intent. Obvs.
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Well that is a fair point. From Seattle you can choose from mountains, mountains, or mountains, from London you have to settle for city, country, or mountains :)
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> From SEA, you have the whole west coast at your doorstep, but you'll need a car and time to enjoy it Well luckily you'll have lots of time off from your Amazosoft job... What's the most exciting weekend city break out of
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I meant one way prices. To my Canadian ears £40 one way is still very cheap. Berlin, £50 round trip in March, £40 in January. Copenhagen, £50 in March. BCN, £50. Porto, £58. Stansted Express, round trip 30 days in advance, £16. Baggage fees
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> Now, let's say I stumble across this bit before I interview her. Red flag: tends to treat things as sexist when they clearly are not. Meaning a potential law suit or what not for nothing. Sorry, too big of a liability. Eh, that wo
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I've seen a YC company give a challenge that took a weekend to complete. (Relatively late in the hiring process.) It was interesting and relevant to career goals. I understand the rejection and the lack of feedback, but the do-not-publ
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My favourite is when the company rejects you with no feedback then asks that you do not post your code for the challenge in your portfolio
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And there's the matter of what to do with the time off. Prague, Rome, Budapest, Barcelona being a two-hour, £20-40 flight away is difficult to value but a big difference.
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London software salaries are low compared to the Bay Area or Seattle. Comparable or a little bit lower than Toronto software salaries. A couple of years ago Amazon would make a standard offer of 90k USD (~55k GBP at today's rates) to n
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This should apply the same to any country, so, Singapore. Do Chinese laws provide for taxing Singapore income of Chinese citizens who permanently live and work in Singapore? If so, is it a matter of not recognizing the citizen is non-reside
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Yes but the issue is about taxing worldwide income of non-resident citizens. Do Chinese laws provide for taxing U.S. income of Chinese citizens who permanently live and work in the U.S.? (Leaving aside enforceability.) Taxing foreign inco
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I'm confused. Are you a Chinese tax resident? Are you a legally non-tax-resident Chinese citizen? My question was about taxation of non-Chinese income of non-resident Chinese citizens. (Forming an analogy to taxation of British income
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Well yeah but we're talking about the U.S. here, this is a culture that won't put final prices on price tags because then the customers won't know how much sales tax they're paying.
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> Ugh, there are a lot of countries, including big ones like china. The table in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Individu... states "no" for "taxes foreign income of nonresident c
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> He is telling US taxpayers hey keep the country going, I am not going to contribute anything but I want to be able to easily comeback if I need to. FTA: "My “in-person final loss of citizenship appointment” is scheduled for Jan. 1
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In this case, more opportunity to do paperwork and apply for special interest tax breaks :)
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Also chances are pretty good not everyone will have everything going at the same time, so you would be able to borrow power from your neighbours' systems without needing a big utility with standby coal.
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A variation where the power source is in the track exists in the real world, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_motor#Train_propulsion
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Some numbers for context because I was thinking about it. Let's say it takes a person five seconds to get in a robocar at an organized terminal area (car pulls up with door already open, people are lined up - getting in on the street i
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> The issue is that if the public is unhappy with the police force there is no way for them to vote in a re-organization. However in the private sector this happens all the time; either forcing one company to re-organize or a re-organiza
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The big problem is scale. You can replicate the capacity of a smaller bus route with efficient self-driving cars, but bigger routes and higher-capacity transit move tens and hundreds of thousands of people per day to a destination, and load
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What is the last large public corporation you can recall driven to bankruptcy primarily by private sector competition under-pricing or out-competing them? Let's say "large" is roughly as productive as, say, Luxembourg.
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You can also live in the city with no cars in midwest or many other places with lower CoL than Bay Area

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