ksdale

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   by ksdale 11y ago

   "while tax laws have failed to keep pace with tax-avoidance strategies made possible by a complex mix of corporate offshore accounts and global capital flows" It would be more accurate to say that tax laws have failed to keep pace
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   I went to law school at the University of Washington and graduated in 2013 and I actually did a little research about Tor while I was there and we talked to some people fairly high up in Seattle area law enforcement and honestly I'm su
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   That's a very excellent point about other critical participants. I appreciate the additional information! I didn't mean to sound like I thought that people die all the time in airplane crashes, merely that the median mistake is wa
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   I agree completely that we tend to focus too much on punishment rather than preventing future harm. That said, one thing that makes the airline industry unique is the binary nature of problems. If something goes wrong and the plane doesn&#x
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   I believe his point isn't that no thinking was involved in creating neural nets, but that our own ability to think is the result of a long line of random adjustments to optimize the human body for survival, the implication being that g
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   You seem to be ignoring the tens of millions of people who actually died and countless more who were actually oppressed at the hands of governments in the last century.
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   Without looking it up I'd still be willing to bet that Thucydides meant war is expensive, not that it's profitable.
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   I'm surprised by how many of them blame their inability to scale on a lack of money. In some cases access to capital is the root problem, but in a lot of cases it's just evidence that your business won't work. Most of them so
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   by ksdale 11y ago

   You could ask them to buy twice as much food as they normally would every time they go to a restaurant or the grocery store. They can either eat until they feel uncomfortable and gain weight or they can start throwing a ton of food away, ei
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    by ksdale 11y ago

    This. I worked at a golf course for a summer and all of the other employees were attractive young women and literally every other guy who came into the pro shop attempted to flirt with them. And most of them were older and married and proba
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    by ksdale 11y ago

    You're right that it's probably discounted somehow by some investors, but it's also worth it's full value if they choose to spend it abroad, so it's not necessarily worth exactly what it would be worth if they repat
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    by ksdale 11y ago

    Theoretically the value of all that cash should be baked into the share price. If shareholders think they can better invest the money, they can sell their shares take their money elsewhere, and only have to pay capital gains tax. If the com
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    by ksdale 11y ago

    Many dictatorships have relied on people turning in their neighbors for being opponents of the regime. I think that people turning in their neighbors based on things they've seen them do/say is a pretty good approximation of surve