limeyx

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31.
by limeyx 10y ago
Or if someone steals one ?
32.
by limeyx 10y ago
I find getting screwed by the taxman a few times while the VPs and investors make out like bandits motivates the research process too ...
33.
by limeyx 10y ago
Sadly yes I think that is right
34.
by limeyx 10y ago
haha until you said you work on HW I thought we might work at the same place :) We even introduced a web form to make it quicker which helped ... not at all
35.
by limeyx 10y ago
I think it's patented so yeah but no...?
36.
by limeyx 10y ago
Damned socialists. They need some free-market goodness over there!
37.
by limeyx 10y ago
Because then you get to spend $300 on an Epi-Pen compared to (an already outrageous) $80 or so in the UK due to "patents" you may say that patents are crimping the "free" market but who is really going to vote to delete
38.
by limeyx 10y ago
First of all some people do think food is a right ! Second generally speaking all but the poorest can at least find some kind of food to purchase or get donated even if it's not perfect For healthcare it's totally different with t
39.
by limeyx 10y ago
I dont believe there would need to be a 20% tax rate increase because we already pay far more per person in the US than anywhere else in the world (mostly) I think it's mostly not going to work here because a lot of people will have to
40.
by limeyx 10y ago
Honestly if I'm going to risk going to prison/getting prosecuted it's going to be for much more than claiming a $5 lemon wasn't organic and switching the barcode over ...
41.
by limeyx 10y ago
I had somewhat similar feelings about the taxes (different company) (went from $7M to < $2 over the 6 month lockup period alone!) Ended up paying a bunch of taxes i likely could have avoided and got something out of it (but it was painfu
42.
by limeyx 10y ago
It's when the telephone sanitizers come in second that you know we are really in trouble.....
43.
by limeyx 10y ago
Cue this now becoming the "$20/month shave club"
44.
by limeyx 10y ago
Thats also assuming he was able/willing to exercise a bunch of options when he left or along the way .. likely but given the AMT/Tax implications not necessarily a given
45.
by limeyx 10y ago
Early employees in a startup I was at that went public in 2001 were making $3-6Million We went out for $1B though (on raising < $2M of VC money) Sadly I was not in that group of people
46.
by limeyx 10y ago
^ - this.
47.
by limeyx 10y ago
Every shave for me or I bleed like a pig
48.
by limeyx 10y ago
Indeed. This exposes the true cost of (something more closely approaching) justice. People will either pay more taxes to fund it (unlikely) or change their tolerance of what actions they want prosecuted
49.
by limeyx 10y ago
For me it's not as much about fining them as it is holding the correct people responsible (not just throwing some junior engineer under the bus as usually happens) and making sure it cannot happen again or gets noticed much more quickl
50.
by limeyx 10y ago
Damn, I would have done his job for ... well, let's say just $25M and only another $10 or so in severance ... It would have been a bargain!
51.
by limeyx 10y ago
Indeed, and then when you look a little deeper and realize that the goals of the "Justice" system are essentially to "prosecute and convict" as many people as possible and the people who prosecute are almost 100% protect
52.
by limeyx 10y ago
Kind of amazing you can't make an account on 911.com, register your cell phone and home phone #s and put in your preferred language, allergies to medicines, serious illnesses etc and have all that come up to the dispatcher when you cal
53.
by limeyx 10y ago
Take a picture of it ?
54.
by limeyx 10y ago
Yeah he's a nasty weasly only likely marginally better than Bliar. I still think this is going to be a bad move. Yes Europe is very very broken but I think better to try to fix it than go it alone
55.
by limeyx 10y ago
I think for smaller companies it could make sense but Netflix is big enough and visible enough that if AWS cut them off, I think you'd see a huge exodus off of AWS of people fearing they would be next ... simply not worth it to Amazon
56.
by limeyx 10y ago
Samsung Pay has worked great for me at a number of locations. The only issue is one of my cards which I think should work wont register and when I try to pay I always get a fingerprint mismatch initially which takes up some time to do a sec
57.
by limeyx 10y ago
YEah I won't touch anything new Google provides to end users these days ...
58.
by limeyx 10y ago
Or victorianism !
59.
by limeyx 10y ago
You can probably draw a very similar chart of people who wouldn't buy a car when it replaced the horse & cart Or people who would "never" drive an automatic car or ... blah blah blah It's going to happen at some poin
60.
by limeyx 10y ago
They actually can if they determine that you possess non-public information which could allow you to gain from the stock in a manner that can be considered "insider trading" Typically this is only for short periods for higher-up p

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