jimmywanger

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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> I know people in the bay area working 70 hours a week at dead end jobs barely making ends meet; a fact I consider unacceptable given the wealth they are surrounded by. By what means is this unacceptable? "I find myself working 40
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
No, but they could have bled Facebook further with more stock, which is fairly freely convertible. "You own the company. If you put ads on the product we sell, give us more money." You don't have to prevent anything, you just
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
As long as Facebook paid, their money was good, and there was a contract signed, it does not matter. This is wrong. Who cares what somebody else thinks when you get billions of dollars? Not your problem anymore. They should have really held
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
An underwater colony is far cheaper and more feasible than a moon colony. When people talk about exploring outer space, they should think about exploring the continental shelf and building colonies there rather than building colonies on ano
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
Democracy is a threat to capitalism. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC0ZB2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... Basically, it explores how democracy and rule of law are fundamentally not reconcilable, especially when ethnic&
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
Argue the point, do not attack the website. Simply because the website publishes other ideas that you disagree with, doesn't mean that the author is fundamentally incorrect in his reasoning. Ad hominem attacks are never good.
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
When you back a rat into a corner even it will strike back.
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
This is very analagous to the relationship Google has with SEO operators. When Google changes policies, they have to scramble. The only thing that's different is that some (not many) of these sites have valuable content, so that gives
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
Are you a vegetarian?
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> Yes, it definitely is. The reduction of four strokes to one at the bottom for the character for "horse" is a perfect example of how the simplified form proposed by the Chinese state merely copied the rapid way of writing the
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> writing often drastically limits the number of strokes. I’m sorry, but I must question your experience with Chinese, because all this is covered in any reasonable introduction to the script reform. No, it's not the same. When you
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> The simplified characters are not actually "remarkably different". You're incorrect. As a simple example look at the difference in the character horse between the two character systems. You might be able to sort of figur
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
For some things authoritarianism is very effective at achieving results. For instance, China's government simply mandated that everybody would start using a simplified writing system that was supposed to increase literacy. And the coun
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
In that case, it's not an amortized cost of the time it takes to interview each person that comes in the door.
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn all have roughly the same interview process. One hour phone screen, 5 hour on-site interviews, then a decision. I have never encountered a situation with 7 interviews. Bear in mind that many wash out during th
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
It does not clash at all, except in cases where the courts decide that you effectively control all expression in a public service. Just like it's not a First Amendment violation for you to refuse me to paint racist slogan on the side o
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Just say you live in SF. Use this: https://www.earthclassmail.com/addresses/ca/san-francisco Bad thing is that you have to pay California state taxes and abide by California laws. If you like weed but hate guns yo
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> American firms actually higher leaders American firms actually hire leaders.
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
From the parent comment literally: > But right now the story is made of completely imagined things. You conjecture many things. That doesn't mean you have to publish all of them. Do they not edit/vet these articles anymore?
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> I'm not in favour of nationalization as a rule. > we must control our own critically important infrastructure! (cheers) You're conflating two things. If the US somehow lost all steel foundries without being able to spin th
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
You're not counting ppv ads. If you click on a webpage, and the advertisers get some money from you clicking on the link, you're going to get taxed even though you did not really do anything? Please explain that to me. How you can
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> You can't even keep your own examples straight, no wonder you're confused. Not at all. The market your product reaches is important. Hosting and domains, not as much. Selling on the amazon.co.uk market is just like selling on
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
So a bus is just a free for all then because you don't need a child seat? What's the reasoning behind that, just because of the sheer size and the weight of the bus cushioning the children from harm?
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
I see you're not interested in having discourse. I genuinely don't see how you don't find this confusing. Is just having a co.uk web address a reason to pay taxes there? There are many locations associated with you these days
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> You know there's a technical answer to this question. Not really a satisfying one, as you pointed out. > Taxes on income in Thailand. > Taxes on income in US. Well, you don't have any income. You send all your profits t
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
That is what the VAT, customs, and personal income tax is for. It's relatively easy to keep track of just where money comes from for a purchase, and where stuff is delivered. If you actually reside there and use the services that'
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> Is hosting not analogous to warehouseing? It's not clear what is and what is not being hosted. Let's take Google for an example. Google has datacenters all over the world. You could make a case that Gmail makes no money on it
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
I can think of a few off the top of my head. Bouncycastle (a crypto library) is hosted in Australia because I think the US crypt laws want to ban the export (download) of military grade munitions. Great Gatsby (the novel) is free to downloa
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> It's pretty clear. You are selling in the UK so the revenue would be taxed there. It's not clear at all. Your warehouse is in the states (or where ever) and the goods are never in the UK. For all cross-border shipments you ha
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
>So this is money made from EU based users and revenue they make from them. That's a gross oversimplification. Especially with the internet, it's not clear anymore. Let's say that I live in Thailand, have US citizenship, s

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