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by nugget 9y ago
New York State offers to waive all state income taxes for something like 10 years if you move there and start a new business in one of their special economic zones. There are more of these programs out there than people realize. https:&#x
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>Every day, $33 billion dollars worth of "traditional" currencies are traded for $33 billion dollars worth of cryptocurrencies If I start with $20k on GDAX and day trade in and out of various currency pairs throughout the day,
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To expand on humanity's historical experience, the best known method of reducing wealth inequality seems to be revolutions and world wars - the more devastating and catastrophic, the better.
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When perverse incentives divide constituents and create paralysis then the solution can only come from a higher level of Government, in this case either State referendum or Federal action.
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If you annuitize your 401k balance at retirement you're effectively participating in a Tontine-like structure with fees paid to the insurance and reinsurance companies in return for administration and risk mitigation.
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With cryptocurrencies you also have other exchange risks, notably the risk an exchange is hacked or otherwise goes out of business. Imagine if you had been buying BTC on Coinbase and selling BTC on MtGox in 2013, making a great profit (on
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> Basically in joining YC, each YC member would be granted a percentage of YC's 7% stake in all of the YC companies which would reduce their need to fundraise. I was curious what this could mean in reality so I did some back of the
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In this context I wonder whether the problem is meat per se, or the heavily processed nature of much of the meat consumed in the West.
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As someone familiar with how this group came into being, I can tell you that Google is very much in the driver's seat. I don't fault them for that and it's probably unavoidable - but it's worth at least being transparen
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The NSA was able to infect air gapped Iranian computers 100 ft underground that only a handful of individuals had access to. I doubt any hot wallets are really out of Government reach given enough time and attention. A cold wallet with of
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Didn't Rognlie @ MIT show that almost all of the out-performance of wealth was due to real estate prices? Couldn't the solution to wealth inequality therefore be a radically different approach to building codes and land value tax
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Wouldn't the trend towards fewer children and smaller families decrease the dissipative effect? In the extreme case of a "one child" policy, inheritance would be amplified because the wealth of both parents (and presumably f
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This is one element that fascinates me about a crypto based monetary system. Crypto wallets are essentially bearer assets. Modern finance moved away from bearer assets for very specific reasons related to theft, fraud, and other forms of
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I'm confused; if you can't use ICO proceeds to fund operations, then what can you spend them on? Where is the money supposed to go?
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In Costa Rica I saw a few houses deploy some type of lizard around the property to take care of spiders, mosquitoes, and scorpions. They appeared just pet-like enough not to freak out most visitors, were anti-social to humans, and seemed t
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I could not have been more wrong in my predictions of this trend. At Y2K I looked at a future where better technology would allow people to spread out around the country and still tap into meaningful cultural and job opportunities. Lower
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What about the new "digital gold" store of wealth narrative?
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I've never read a recommendation for 100 nmol/L before. Previous numbers were around 50-70 nmol/L. So this seems noteworthy. There also appears to be some evidence to support Vitamin K2 as a complement to Vitamin D suppleme
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by nugget 9y ago
Fair point but doesn't this run directly counter to the trend of startups leveraging an increasing amount of open source code?
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Do many Bitcoin boosters even care about BTC becoming a currency any more? Seems it has achieved much more success as a frenzied medium of global speculation than it ever dreamed of as a stable digital currency.
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What exactly is the potential liability for a GPL violation? I've gone 12 rounds with IP lawyers over these theoretical violations (static vs dynamic links). But I found it odd that I could never find a single case of significant liab
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Yahoo syndicates their search index from Bing (Microsoft) and adds a little UI differentiation on top. I hate to say it, but Verizon/AOL could easily run Yahoo's heavily partner-dependent search business into the ground. I alrea
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Are you advocating for a flat org structure and if so have you seen any examples of that succeeding at scale? I think many people who argue against the value of great management have just never worked at a company with great management. Gr
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Health insurance companies recruit providers (hospitals and physicians), negotiate prices for services, manage patient records and billing, detect, prevent, and prosecute provider fraud, determine market prices based on their predicted popu
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GDPR penalties are severe (% of total revenue) and the EU regulators would love to make an example of Facebook for non-compliance.
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For what it's worth, shortly after the ICO Vitalik told me he owned less than 2% of ETH. There were more hands in that pie than people realize.
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I've noticed that Uber seems to have much more competitive pricing in markets (especially airports) where Lyft is also present, compared to markets where they are the only provider. So personally I would welcome Lyft's rapid inte
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I have no experience in this area but I assume these waivers come with "job like" research, teaching, and/or administrative support obligations attached, in which case the tax seems appropriate (and, as the author suggests, U
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Who decides what's a conspiracy and what's an uncomfortable truth that powerful lobbies are effectively covering up? e.g. the broadest NSA SIG INT collection efforts, sub-concussive hits from football causing CTE, and sugar-rich
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Do these schools differ from the top tier private schools in the Northeast (Andover, Exeter) or are they just the West Coast equivalents?

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