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by ksdale 8y ago
I agree with you, it also seems plausible that as the cost of starting a business continues to decline, the number of ventures closing will continue to go up relative to the number of new ventures until it's practically even. People wi
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by ksdale 8y ago
Preface: I didn't intend for this to be so long... I just got on a roll... I'm not sure it's true that we conceptualize couch from a single example. We've all seen thousands of couches in many different contexts, homes,
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by ksdale 10y ago
This operating agreement doesn't really differ from a regular LLC agreement except that it does away with members putting capital into the business, which is usually where the entire difference in voting rights comes into play. Minor n
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by ksdale 10y ago
While I completely agree that the incentives seem absurd on their face, a counterpoint I have is that while I worked in a CPA office for several years, I came to realize that a lot of people really have no idea how much they pay in taxes. M
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by ksdale 10y ago
This! If insurance companies aren't allowed to know anything about customers AND they have to insure people with pre-existing conditions, then we're not paying for insurance, we're just paying for our healthcare out of pocket
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by ksdale 10y ago
I don't know of any good resources off the top of my head, but IIRC from law school, one of the main objectives of Sarbanes-Oxley is to get executives on the hook for the accuracy of the financial statements they sign, and I believe it
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by ksdale 10y ago
I'm not sure how close this is to being the practice of law, but lawyers are generally not allowed to contract away malpractice liability. As a lawyer, I feel like it would be beneficial for everyone to allow it in certain cases, like
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by ksdale 10y ago
I second this! My wife and I have been doing freelance web design for about a year now and we've been completely shocked at how quickly some people will hire you while only knowing that you are 1) a generally respectable person and 2)
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by ksdale 10y ago
If they are really safer than human driven vehicles, then it will likely cost less to insure them than human driven vehicles. And as a higher percentage of vehicles become autonomous, the roads as a whole should get safer (assuming self dri
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by ksdale 10y ago
I think you can determine how curious you are relative to other people in general by roughly keeping track of how often you are interested in other people's hobbies versus how often they are interested in yours. It won't tell you
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by ksdale 10y ago
I think it could be done, especially if you could gather enough information to show people the likelihood of certain problems happening given their circumstances. The biggest problem is that without software to do the heavy lifting, you&#x2
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by ksdale 10y ago
I completely agree. To your second paragraph, I would add that it's hard for customers (and lawyers) to figure out what is "good-enough" in the legal setting. I'm a lawyer and there's a lot of stuff you can find on
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by ksdale 10y ago
I'm not sure that you have to be a moral relativist to be an individualist. You could just hold that the highest moral good is people having the agency to pursue what will make them content (which I think is an appropriate definition o
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by ksdale 10y ago
This is an excellent point. This calculation can change depending on a doctor's employer too. If the doctor is self-employed, the strategy is definitely don't get sued at all because the cost of defending could break the bank. At
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by ksdale 10y ago
Thanks for the link! That was an interesting read. For us it was sort of a balancing test. Our analysis went something like - the risk of SIDS is really low to start with, and we don't drink or smoke, we breastfeed, we sleep in a king
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by ksdale 10y ago
Thanks for the info! We did a little research ourselves and the scariness didn't seem to outweigh the benefits of having the baby close enough to hear our breathing (which people say makes a difference in their self-regulation?) and my
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by ksdale 10y ago
We co-slept with each of our 3 kids when they were newborns (which is not recommended by American doctors but is very common throughout the world) and from talking with friends and family I think we got quite a bit more sleep than the avera
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by ksdale 10y ago
In addition to this, I would add that competition can take many different forms. I think it's very useful when it inspires everyone to do better and everyone can shake hands afterwards because they enjoyed the journey. It's less t
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by ksdale 10y ago
It is definitely consistent as a compromise for state subsidized healthcare, but it's also perfectly consistent to think that the state should neither nudge people away from soda or subsidize healthcare. If someone says that they would
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by ksdale 10y ago
The vast majority of stock trades are just trades between two parties (neither of which is the company) that believe different things about the stock. I agree that HFT doesn't generate much value, but by this metric, neither do any tra
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by ksdale 10y ago
Poverty and inequality and mobility are all different things, and I think it's perfectly valid to ask what the right amount of mobility is. Obviously it's not 100% of people in the bottom 20% moving to the top because that would j
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by ksdale 10y ago
I'm not sure what the "right" number is, but you would expect that someone trained to use a weapon would "win" in the majority, if not the vast majority of cases. The ideal ratio would be zero police deaths compared
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by ksdale 10y ago
This is an excellent oberservation but I would point out that all of your examples are of one group having a large information technology advantage over another. I think the situation could be different as very powerful IT becomes as wide
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by ksdale 11y ago
Corporations have pretty excellent feedback in the form of profits that result from voluntary transactions with customers. The success of a state is measured in many ways, many of which are disagreed upon and/or take decades to measure
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by ksdale 11y ago
It hurts the other shareholders a lot more than it hurts the companies. The stock price would drop precipitously if a huge block of shares was sold like that. The main way I see it hurting the companies is that stock price is a proxy for th
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by ksdale 11y ago
I think this cuts both ways quite a lot more than the author admits. Bill Gates may not represent "the will of the people" but he also doesn't stand to benefit nearly as much from "winning" as say, teacher's un
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by ksdale 11y ago
I'm not sure I have a problem with this, but I think it's perfectly consistent to want it both ways. There are plenty of rights that accrue to citizens that don't accrue to government actors and vice versa.
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by ksdale 11y ago
To add a little context based on an antitrust course taken in a U.S. law school a few years ago, European antitrust law is quite different from American antitrust law so American ideas about market share and consumer choice may not be appli
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by ksdale 11y ago
Exactly! There is no "spirit" of the law. You don't give someone a speeding ticket for going 25 in a 25 because the spirit of the law is that they should be going slow.
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by ksdale 11y ago
There actually are laws that impose much higher tax rates on cash in "holding companies" but convincing the government that you might need that much cash is pretty easy.

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