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by nugget 11y ago
Basic income would become a part of the whole picture, for sure. But take Norway as an example: 5 million people and around a trillion dollars in sovereign wealth, which could yield ~ $8k per person (man, woman, and child) per year in perp
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by nugget 11y ago
I'm a fan of the theory of basic income but it seems incompatible with an open border/immigration policy. Given how many refugees are already migrating into Europe (many for economic reasons), how would a basic income change the
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by nugget 11y ago
After many years in the hamster wheel I came to realize that the best loyalty currency is the US dollar.
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by nugget 11y ago
Can existing synology boxes upgrade for that or would it only be in newer models?
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by nugget 11y ago
Out of curiosity what RAID setup would you use for replaceable media (e.g. blu ray movies)? Is there a synology solution for checksums to pevent bitrot which ZFS advocates talk about a lot?
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by nugget 11y ago
It's been awhile since I studied middle eastern politics but isn't the consensus still that once the KSA oil money runs out (which could be a long time if oil prices rebound), there is a good chance of violent revolution?
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by nugget 11y ago
The inheritance tax already kicks in at a pretty high rate above $5 million and change. Are you advocating for an even higher rate? Close to 100%? If so, keep in mind that inheritance and gifting (while still alive) are directly connecte
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by nugget 11y ago
If the writer knew how bad the current practice environment is for many GPs, he might weave a little more sympathy into his article.
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by nugget 11y ago
Absolutely, in hindsight there would have been different ways we could have managed the board more effectively from the start, and saved ourselves grief (and likely created even more value). At 22 y/o we lacked the experience to do th
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by nugget 11y ago
Fair enough but you are pointing toward employment insecurity, low salary, and other stressful work conditions - these seem to be largely functions of job skills and industry, not how many years you spent at an employer. I would probably l
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by nugget 11y ago
I'm genuinely curious, what do you think you experience in 10+ years that you wouldn't in 2-3 years? I spent three years working post acquisition. I experienced an up cycle (we were making so much $ that budgeting went out the w
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by nugget 11y ago
It's a different experience, for sure, but not necessarily an easier one. Common perception is that founder CEO's call all the shots like some third world dictator whose word is law and cannot even be questioned. Well, appearan
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by nugget 11y ago
Wyoming?
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by nugget 11y ago
These news and reader apps have so much high value audience interest data that they should be very valuable (in theory), given enough engaged users, especially on mobile. Are they struggling to leverage the data to monetize for fear of ali
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by nugget 11y ago
What would you recommend to parents who don't want to assign their very young (.5-1 yr old) children to what most folks think of as old school traditional daycare? Do you think daily structured group dates supervised by a rotating par
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by nugget 11y ago
I don't understand the pessimism in this thread. Google owns two of the most important pieces of the puzzle: maps and the mobile OS/app store in 80% of people's pockets. Not to mention lots of software and hardware IP relat
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New York State Court Rules Against Fanduel and DraftKings(techcrunch.com)
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by nugget 11y ago
A friend of mine went through BUDS. He told me once that the key to surviving hell week was simply to mentally accept that you would either keep going and pass, or literally die in the surf. No middle ground. A lot of the candidates get
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by nugget 11y ago
I still have at least a couple Gemstone III dreams per year (without any lag or $500/month bills, of course).
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by nugget 11y ago
So it's not actually a charity after all - it's a private LLC that will make ''philanthropic'' investments which, if well run, could snowball the $45b of Facebook stock into hundreds of billions of dollars of p
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by nugget 11y ago
In markets where incumbents collude on prices to achieve unreasonably high margins there are usually opportunities for new entrants to enter the market, lower prices, and rapidly capture market share. Government's job is to make sure
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by nugget 11y ago
I used to agree with you but now I'm not so sure. My uncle works in health care and had the same experience as me. He hated his old job, switched to a new one - is performing the same work, same hours, but the change in practice envi
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by nugget 11y ago
Free market competition is usually the best solution to problems like this. Google and others are on the horizon offering better connectivity already. If Verizon doesn't fix its problems then they will start to lose customers which i
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by nugget 11y ago
People talk a lot about ''quality of life'' but not so much about ''quality of job'' or ''quality of work life''. I used to have a job I hated and couldn't wait to retire (ea
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by nugget 11y ago
They don't eliminate one side of the network but they do turn it into mostly a Capex problem, which is easier to solve, especially for cash rich companies like Google and Apple.
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by nugget 11y ago
How much does he have outside of Facebook shares? A billion or two? So it's still >90% of net worth.
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by nugget 11y ago
I give Mark and Priscilla a lot of credit for this. There's a big difference between 50% and 99%. There's a big difference between leaving your children a few hundred million and many billions. They have certainly exemplified t
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by nugget 11y ago
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius definitely changed my life. I found it as relevant today as it must have been two thousand years ago when it was written.
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by nugget 11y ago
No doubt you need to be excellent to create a monopoly (maintenance mode is much easier). But you also need the ingredients for it to exist in the first place (network effect, high value/exclusive/monetize-able data, high competi
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by nugget 11y ago
You need to own and exploit a monopoly in order to grow into a true tech heavyweight. Facebook has social (and all the traffic and user data that comes with it), Microsoft has the OS and utilities, Apple has the OS, hardware, and apps, and

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