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by mchannon 8y ago
You're selling software, which you can exclusively purvey on a different continent, and you're probably unhappy about relinquishing quite a bit of coin to VAT and/or other taxation. Am I right in thinking this is why you&#x2
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Pardon my being a contrarian, but consider if it were Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison or Thomas Edison asking this question. Societal progress sometimes benefits from arrogance. Perhaps it even depends on it on rare occasions. Maybe you should
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While this is largely true (and in fact today natural gas is already cheaper than making gasoline from other sources), sometimes you can't substitute natural gas for gasoline, and some people will still want to buy gasoline (with its c
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Hydrogen's Achilles heel is its crappy volumetric energy density. Even if you get the hydrogen to the point where you literally can't compress it anymore and it liquefies, it takes up 4x the space of the equivalent energy amount
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By the time it gets to a jury, it's typically a lock. But prosecutors lose plenty of cases by surrendering before it gets to a jury. Doesn't count against their sky-high conviction rate, either. For that vanishingly small number
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You should waive technical interviews, full stop. Most people have zero professional training on how to do them properly. So don't. Using the technical interview approach, Einstein wouldn't get a job as a physicist because he had
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Two overlooked areas that explain the rise of the high-throughput prosecutor: 1. The war on drugs If you look at the statistics, the biggest surprise is how many offenders aren't in prison for drugs, and how many of them are in for v
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In the end, you're probably going to have to vote with your feet, as in, move jobs. Moving business addresses is not trivial, and real estate in S. San Jose, though also insanely expensive, is going to be substantially cheaper than mid
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Haven't been able to verify your claim "all nuclear reactors also produce Helium as a by product". While Helium manufacture is a given for about all forms of fusion (if fusion ever takes off we'll barely be able to supp
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You want to get the guy out of there, and you don't want to appear petty, jealous, or malicious. The solution's simple: help him get a better job. That way your motives are pure. Internally, tell the founders he needs to be prom
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A law firm wouldn't ask an attorney to prove he knows law. A medical practice wouldn't ask a physician to prove he knows medicine. You wouldn't put a veteran over-the-road truck driver through a driving test you set up in you
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You should write one. Most people don't perceive the problem to the extent you perceive it. Traction and customer acquisition will be very hard, so it depends on if you can make it worth your time. Many fake reviewees engage in the p
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There are a number of reasons this goes on. First and foremost is why remote is so slow to catch on everywhere. Every manager has to deal with cognitive load, and a limited capability to exceed it. Getting the money to hire somebody at a
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Probably most accurate to call it a plug-in hybrid. Something else to add to my wish list to Santa.
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For those among us 30 and younger who are too young to get the joke, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Fun_Ball
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Fictional or no, this company sells them: https://knowm.org/memristors/
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Everyone else says money. The real reason is darker. When the first broadcast media came out, radio and later TV, there was very limited bandwidth. The FCC had to apportion out a finite spectrum, and the powers there decided to make sure
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As someone who didn't need to do this in college or graduate school to do well, I witnessed the valedictorians around me as people who also probably didn't need to do it, but did it anyway. That's why they were valedictorians
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I was a former public defender, guy. Umm.. thank you for your service? It sounds like you have a bad lawyer, but you're also not understanding what's going on. Well, I'm on my fourth (or fifth? I've lost count), and
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They're not as separate as many seem to think. The reason lawyers tend to ignore the speedy trial act is a practical one. They object, the judge dismisses the charges without prejudice, and the prosecution refiles the charges (or subs
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Earn lots of money and then invest it in an early-stage organization that has a decent plan to battle climate change. It's amazing how many people think showing up to work at a soup kitchen, and only then on Thanksgiving and Christmas
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Even though he's convicted and incarcerated on other charges, Ross still has a right to a speedy trial, and charges have to be brought within a statute of limitations (five years in most cases, and although there are exceptions for mur
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Let me clear up the confusion. The original appeal is highly limited to at most two issues, and strictly matters of law. The 2255 is wide open. You're limited by the number of pages (and the realization that if the first, say, 10 cla
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You probably mean "affirm", which is lawyerese for confirm. No, circuit courts limit themselves to what your appellate counsel brings, and strictly limits what you can bring up by limiting the amount of time at argument to 30 minu
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Ross Ulbricht is not done with the courts because, contrary to popular belief and media reporting, the Supreme Court is not the last stop on the appeals process line. Next on tap for Mr. Ulbricht is the time-honored 2255 motion. Mr. Ulbric
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This takes me back. 6.0.8 was the last version of the Macintosh System and Finder that I really loved. System 6 did support color as well as larger screens, and I fondly remember phonebook sized white gloss books called Inside Macintosh.
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ABQ. It's Denver with better weather and far lower levels of congestion and cost of living. Someone was crowing about a mortgage of $2000/mo. for a 2000sf condo. That'd be about $1200/mo. here, plus it would be freestan
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It might prove easiest to start a new LLC on the down-low (out of state might be a nice touch) and then tell your cofounder you've just gotten an offer to acquire the IP (and acquihire you) but not the rest of the company (which you&#x
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Gotta watch the "L". Gulf Alumino-states take natural gas and generate captive electricity without a liquefaction step. There's an equivalent amount of electrical energy to make an aluminum can as a gallon of gasoline (err..
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Not technically true that the majority of corn is used for ethanol (other uses combine to make it a plurality, rather than majority), but still, amazingly true that ethanol is now the leading use of corn acreage planted (which I did not kno

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