lubos

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by lubos 16y ago
I just realized you are the guy who made bingocardcreator. Man, I know you forever since I used to be joelonsoftware regular before HN just like you :) anyway, thanks for write-up and good luck
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by lubos 16y ago
congrats man, I'm so happy for you. your attitude is great, finally someone who dreams real big! go ahead and thumbs up
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by lubos 16y ago
it's important to say that Bill Gates doesn't give charity his own taxed income... by moving his equity into his foundation, he is essentially avoiding capital gains tax and dividend tax. I'm not saying that taxes are good but we all have t
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by lubos 16y ago
the point is that charities are run for the benefit of people who control them.
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by lubos 16y ago
they are required to donate 5% of their equity each year to retain their tax exempt status with IRS. most charities do it this way including the biggest one - bill and melinda gates foundation.
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by lubos 16y ago
another bummer: "Please note applicants must be eligible to live and work in Ireland."
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by lubos 16y ago
how do I upgrade my existing account? when I try to sign up, it wants me to create brand new account. there is nothing in admin panel that offers me to upgrade, am I missing something?
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by lubos 16y ago
that makes us two :-D
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by lubos 16y ago
good job but I bet he wouldn't pass the job interview process at google.
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by lubos 16y ago
it would look more impressive vertically stacked... it didn't make me think that one trillion is particularly huge.
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by lubos 16y ago
Steve Jobs: "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
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by lubos 16y ago
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." -- Pablo Picasso
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by lubos 16y ago
could it be that YC invests mostly in people, not ideas? I mean humblebundle team is obviously very talented, they know how to capture interest of masses and they might eventually come up with other ideas in future, start other companies et
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by lubos 16y ago
why does it matter? tax deductible donations still cost you. you get some tax credit on your expense but not 100% (depends on your income tax rate which can be anywhere between 0-50%)
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by lubos 16y ago
design nice, product name not so...
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by lubos 16y ago
In 1994 when Bill Gates started his private foundation, income from dividends was taxed like regular income. You're right it's 15% right now but don't forget there is new tax law coming into effect pretty much in two weeks that will tax div
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by lubos 16y ago
income from dividends or when your money sits in the bank earning interest is not capital gain. capital gain is when you buy shares, real-estate etc and market price of these assets increases while they are on your balance sheet. then it's
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by lubos 16y ago
Let me play devil's advocate. Let's say you are bill gates. You own assets worth of 50 billion dollars. Assuming there is no capital gain or loss and that your return on investment is 5%, you should be making 2.5 billion USD annually. Half
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by lubos 16y ago
This is not conspiracy theory. Time magazine admitted in 2002 that they are not going to award person of the year title to anyone controversial to United States anymore. In 1979 after they have chosen Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini, they had dr
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by lubos 16y ago
if if if...
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by lubos 16y ago
according to Time Magazine, the person of the year title goes to the person "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."
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by lubos 16y ago
They hit mainstream already in April when they leaked Baghdad airstrike video. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_published_by_WikiLe...
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by lubos 16y ago
Obviously Assange should be the person of the year. Although I personally dislike him for being such a popularity whore, it's obvious Time magazine has been pressured to choose someone less controversial. But what happened to original princ
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by lubos 16y ago
Well, if you start a company and things will go way too easy for you, it's hard not to become overconfident which will eventually lead into ultimate failure. so is it surprising all these great companies had difficult beginnings? not at all
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by lubos 16y ago
completely misleading since it can take up to 45 minutes for body to absorb caffeine. so what's the point making tests merely after 30 minutes. and by the way, it's proven that caffeine decreases reaction time, improves memory and focused t
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by lubos 16y ago
you are missing the point. the article was only criticizing hiring process at google. when google makes an acquisition, they'll also gain people who built that technology/product too. these people usually went through completely different h
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by lubos 16y ago
this list is completely useless don't waste your time... most of those points are just describing current trends which you don't need any list for... just look around. I was expecting some time-proven list of fundamental design rules. Sorry
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by lubos 16y ago
it's martingale betting but you have a point
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by lubos 16y ago
why? when you think about it, competent people usually think they suck and are very humble. incompetent people are more likely to tell you how amazing they are and are so full of themselves. I think this job ad is brilliant way to attract r
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by lubos 16y ago
the article is interesting but without context it's kind of pointless. how do we know he is not making this up? the company had supposedly revenue of 150mil with net loses of around 100mil. my guess is that this was some kind of online shop

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