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by kenneth 8y ago
They say Donald Trump doesn't drink — which is surprising when you think of his reputation as a womanizer.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Drug use is rampant in silicon valley. You wouldn't be a very successful investor is drug use was a disqualifying factor. Of course it depends what kind of drugs. Potheads don't make very good CEOs and Cocaine is usually associate
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by kenneth 8y ago
The fact that we drive on the right is the precise reason why trucks have less of a blind spot on the left. (We place the driver's seat closest to the center of the road, while on a mine site it's better to be close to the edge of
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by kenneth 8y ago
Exactly. We're both kids. I have 12 marbles. You have 24 marbles. We need to give up some marbles for the common good. We could debate whether us both giving 6 marble is fair, or wether you giving 8 and me giving 4 is fair. I can see b
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by kenneth 8y ago
Good. Given a fair tax system would be proportional / flat, perhaps a little imbalance in the other direction evens it all out towards flat / proportional tax (everyone at the same percentage)
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by kenneth 8y ago
Huh? This article is ridiculous. > It’s called “schedule creep”, or padding. And it’s a secret the airlines don’t want you to know about, especially given the spillover effects for the environment. So… let me get this right… because the
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by kenneth 8y ago
I'm not so sure I'd pick Democracy over nuclear power. Recent years have made me question our idea of the absolute superiority of Democracy. Look at the clusterfuck that is the US "democracy" vs the success of Singapore
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by kenneth 8y ago
Thanks for being a great example of what GP was talking about. Shutting down discussions about issues based on the pretext that the people you disagree with are "fascist" or "bigots" is a huge part of the problem. (And y
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by kenneth 8y ago
@dang — came through the Reuters article. Prefer it to the new Vox article, due to being factual and objective, instead of editorialized and showing bias. Vox's article implies Google was in the wrong. Reuters makes no such implication
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by kenneth 8y ago
I feel like there's some misunderstanding of what these terms are. All VCs are investment advisors (either Exempt Reporting Advisors or Registered Investment Advisor depending on assets under management and investment types). The artic
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by kenneth 8y ago
I thought I would hate the new MBPs and it kept me from upgrading for a while. But after making the switch last year, I'm pretty much fully onboard. The USB-C ports are great, and I am looking forward to the future where old-school USB
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by kenneth 8y ago
I think GP was thinking of direct listing, like Spotify's, in which the company does not issue new shares and instead the stock is listed on a market and insiders put up their own sell orders to provide initial volume to the market. In
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by kenneth 8y ago
I would say that suburban / rural America is more of the outlier. Most of the world's white collar workers work in transit-accessible cities, and the rest of the world is much less car-driven than the United States. But yes, I&#x2
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by kenneth 8y ago
Six months
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by kenneth 8y ago
The price that Lyft sold newly issued shares at yesterday was $72. They raised $2B at that price. Some of those investors put up their new shares into public markets this morning and got a handsome profit.
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by kenneth 8y ago
I have never once in my career felt like I was held back by not having a car. The only occasion where driving was more convenient was during rare business trips where and we'd simply get a rental car. If you're a white collar work
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by kenneth 8y ago
I hate driving, and I never bothered with getting the driver's license. Eventually, it got to a point where I just felt limited and embarrassed by not having a driver's license, and went took a few classes and dealt with it. I was
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Theresa May to resign before next phase of Brexit(theguardian.com)
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by kenneth 8y ago
Yup, that easily fits in the evil genius category
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by kenneth 8y ago
An exit would usually be considered long-term capital gains under the tax code, which luckily tops out at 20% (+ state income tax)
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by kenneth 8y ago
It seems like a lot of the OP's experience is clouded by bitterness over having such a lousy payout in what looks like a good acquisition. I think this mostly goes to illustrate how important it is to understand the ownership structure
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by kenneth 8y ago
As a frequent flyer, I appreciate the tool because it's surprisingly hard to tell exactly which model is being flown. Google will tell you it's a 737, but not which variant of 737. Many airlines don't break it down either. An
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by kenneth 8y ago
EK202 is just short hand for Emirates flight 202. EK is the IATA code for the airline, and 202 is the flight number.
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by kenneth 8y ago
SeatGuru Link to this plane + airline combo would be the most useful.
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by kenneth 8y ago
The curse of being profitable. Everyone always laments how "little profit" is made, whereas wildly unprofitable companies are seen as big opportunities (e.g. Lyft).
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by kenneth 8y ago
We've blown up nukes all the way to 50Mt. But granted, the underwater tests were in the kt ranges.
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by kenneth 8y ago
I've traveled all around the world (~60 countries) including plenty of third world countries and honestly, I feel safer in pretty much all of them than in San Francisco. Even in other American cities known for crime, I feel safer than
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by kenneth 8y ago
Yes, precisely. The problem is what to do with all the currently built up energy. We know that a big one is coming, we don't know when. Before we can implement the program for slow steady release of energy, we will have to suffer throu
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by kenneth 8y ago
Keep in mind we've also blown up 500+ nuclear bombs including almost 10 underwater. Not a great idea in hindsight, but overall we didn't experience any major problems as a result. Seems like even in the worst and extremely unlikel
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by kenneth 8y ago
Floating nuclear power plants are already quite common and have a spotless track record in the past century. That's wht most of America's aircraft carriers and modern submarines are.

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