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by jayess 11y ago
It's easier to speculate than do actual journalism. Particularly ideological journalism, a la the New York Times.
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by jayess 11y ago
Which is only a bad thing when everyone is up to their eyeballs in debt.
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by jayess 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what keeps you in Venezuela?
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by jayess 11y ago
It amazes me that ancient people put up with such harsh conditions. Why not just move south, where it's warmer. I suppose part of the issue is lack of knowledge of other places, but still. Why stay in such a harsh, difficult place?
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by jayess 11y ago
I'm guessing that the US traded some serious intelligence help for an agreement that he'd be extradited to the US following his capture.
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by jayess 11y ago
What a terrible lack of information in this article.
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by jayess 11y ago
In their list of validation images, I thought this was was pretty cool: http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-006200-2.jpg
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by jayess 11y ago
Can anyone suggest a good "getting started" tutorial for PostgreSQL/debian/php? I've been using Mysql for years and would like to give Postgres a try.
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Chinese Markets Halted, Equities Plunge Another 7%(globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
394 points by jayess 11y ago|235 comments
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by jayess 11y ago
I love the smell of creative destruction in the morning.
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by jayess 11y ago
Yes, this is precisely how central banking creates bubbles.
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by jayess 11y ago
Markets are cheering central planning and price fixing. Yay!
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by jayess 11y ago
Considering that Hillary was instrumental in helping to create ISIS, this is rich.
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by jayess 11y ago
The Soviet Union gave this a shot. Didn't really work out.
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by jayess 11y ago
Yes, but most people give their own congressman good ratings: http://www.gallup.com/poll/162362/americans-down-congress-ow... I suppose I meant, in the context of this discussion, that people here tend to complain
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by jayess 11y ago
Yet every single politician values power more than the average person, and they're treated as saints.
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by jayess 11y ago
Private people having money: bad. Politicians and bureaucrats having unlimited power: good.
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by jayess 11y ago
If anything, this transaction will actually result in more taxes being levied than if he had transferred it to a foundation. There still will be capital gains tax when the LLC sells Facebook shares. It will pay income tax on any dividends.
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by jayess 11y ago
No, it doesn't work that way. I don't see how any estate taxes are being avoided here. The "says.com" article quoted gets so much wrong about how LLCs work.
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by jayess 11y ago
As far as I understand, he wouldn't avoid estate taxes. Whoever dies last would still own the LLC as an asset and the estate is taxed on the value of that asset. With their combined estate tax exemption, about $10.5 million, any value
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by jayess 11y ago
I wouldn't touch an Alibaba investment with a ten foot pole, at least not on any medium- to long-term basis. They would be smart to sell that off.
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by jayess 11y ago
I'm confused as well. What if you have a part-time employee who doesn't have benefits? Or what if you're a small business that doesn't offer benefits?
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by jayess 11y ago
This must be their answer to Zen Payroll/Gusto now offering worker's compensation and health insurance. It's great to see competition in this space. ADP and the other dinosaur providers in this area have had it too good for t
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by jayess 11y ago
Clearly more NSA surveillance is needed.
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by jayess 11y ago
I ditched gmail for fastmail two years ago and don't regret it for a second. I haven't noticed any disruption at all. Keep up the good work, guys.
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by jayess 11y ago
Unsweetened ice tea?
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by jayess 11y ago
As an American I am disturbed by my country's foreign policy as it relates to Latin America, largely over the last half of the 20th century. But propaganda cuts both ways. I have a hard time taking an article like this seriously when i
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by jayess 11y ago
Candle makers feel taxi drivers' pain.
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by jayess 11y ago
The question at the end seems the most important part of this article. What is their diet? I'm willing to bet it doesn't include soda, energy drinks, and deep-fried foods. "The hunter-gatherers are also much healthier. Not a
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by jayess 11y ago
Outstanding. Tax competition is a good thing.

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