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by kevmo 9y ago
I live in Washington, DC. The tiny bandwidth of acceptable opinion here would be hilarious if these people weren't running the country. When I go to parties and meet people with powerful jobs, it's appalling how poorly thought o
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by kevmo 9y ago
> can fund operations with revenues I trust you mean currently existing ops, if frozen as is. Lots of companies go public while still taking on debt because their ROI in expanding operations is significantly higher than the interest rat
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by kevmo 9y ago
I didn't realize GitHub had added a topic tags feature to repos. I hope it ends up being useful!
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by kevmo 9y ago
I'm grateful people are sounding this alarm. A healthy society produces a more stable, faster-growing economy, and entrepreneurship shouldn't be limited to those scions of wealthy families.
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by kevmo 9y ago
Many of our regulatory bodies have been utterly captured by biggest companies that they are supposed to regulate, and they are tamping down innovation (which creates jobs), increasing prices, and decreasing quality. Both the Democrats and R
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by kevmo 9y ago
Gotta get those eyeballs.
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Ask HN: How are “first world” economies going to change over the next 20 years?
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by kevmo 9y ago
Exactly. And this had been coming for years. A transgendered friend of mine starting working there in 2014. She quit within a week. It was only a matter of time.
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by kevmo 9y ago
Ah, I made a similar (but simpler) one years ago: https://github.com/kevmo/greasemonkey/blob/master/quora_upvo...
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Trump quits Paris climate accord, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S(latimes.com)
38 points by kevmo 9y ago|22 comments
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by kevmo 9y ago
This article grinds too many axes to be as insightful as it could be. E.g., "[T]he inheritance tax in the U.S. prevent the accumulation of capital necessary for the formation of a strong mid-sized sector." is just casually tossed
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by kevmo 9y ago
Another slice of the explanation for this can be found in the ceiling there is on crowdfunding: Your investors aren't people with deep pockets; it's those who generally don't have even one full extra paycheck in the bank. Whe
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by kevmo 10y ago
Institutionalized debt slavery.
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Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds(techblog.netflix.com)
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by kevmo 11y ago
And there was a lot of questioning over whether she had won when she was sending those defeatist Iowa emails. A few days later, the Des Moines Register - which endorsed Hillary - called for a top-to-bottom audit of the primary in an editori