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by peyton 10y ago
Your payment processor tacks on sales tax. Just list where you have nexus. You get a number at the end of the quarter that you pay when you file taxes. With VAT, you have to keep careful track of input VAT and sometimes later claim repaymen
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by peyton 10y ago
Back in school I was part of a small group of students chosen to meet Eric Schmidt. He walked into the room and asked, "Who here is making something really impressive?" I thought a long time about what that says about Google. Mayb
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by peyton 10y ago
Another big difference is Apple starts with how the product should feel and works backwards. This is tough to reconcile with AI because AI sometimes fails. When your device doesn't do what you want, it feels bad. When you read an artic
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by peyton 10y ago
I think you're right. I'm a lifelong Democrat, but having grown up in Texas, the anti-Trump rhetoric is cringy in its disingenuity. Part of winning an election is getting people to show up at the polls, so maybe the Trump oppositi
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by peyton 10y ago
Saying all non-voters are happy is a stretch. There are a lot of reasons somebody might not vote. Health, money, time, negligence, etc.
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by peyton 10y ago
Is there another current government that's older than 2 centuries? I think we made a tradeoff for stability. Arguably that worked out well.
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by peyton 10y ago
US requires 3/4 of states to amend the Constitution. The thinking at the time of the Constitution's drafting is that transient majorities are the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
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by peyton 10y ago
Counterexample: Safari 7 had a big blue button that said "Reader." It was literally the largest button in the app. Usage did not change.
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by peyton 10y ago
Don't we get cheap drugs when patents expire? Are you saying we should invalidate all existing drug patents today and cease R&D rather than wait for patents to expire?
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by peyton 10y ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned: how do you design an organization that manages and efficiently allocates $3-4 trillion in spending across the country? Has it been done before? If so, has such an organization been legislated into ex
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by peyton 10y ago
Devil's advocate: it's written to be memorable. Punchy. Guidelines are no good if people can't remember them or worse, don't read them.
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by peyton 10y ago
Mid-20s American here. I'll try to explain my mindset. I've lived in Switzerland and all over Asia without owning a car. Loved public transit and never wanted a car. - Public transit in the US sometimes feels like riding a rolling
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by peyton 10y ago
According to Investopedia [1], acquisitions are sometimes negotiated to be called mergers to avoid negative connotations of being "bought out." [1]: http://www.investopedia.com/university/mergers/mergers1
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by peyton 10y ago
> how is it a bandwagon instead of a future standard Not saying I subscribe, but there's a view that a web browser should be for browsing web documents, not peer to peer video. There are limited development resources, and some feel
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by peyton 11y ago
It seems more likely Apple wants leverage over banks to cut exclusive deals in order to sell more devices. The retail banking industry suffers from low consumer satisfaction, as it earns the bulk of its profits via fees, personal loans, and
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by peyton 11y ago
They'd probably ask whether we're working with AT&T- or Intel-style syntax ;)
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by peyton 11y ago
Browsers are a huge attack vector. And Mobile Safari can mark data pages as executable, while apps cannot.
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by peyton 11y ago
In addition to making a buck through market segmentation, there are probably challenges sourcing NAND flash that meets Apple's power/performance requirements in sufficient quantities.
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by peyton 11y ago
Hmm, I don't think the original post was clear enough. The problem was with using money to prevent your competitors from doing business. Doing so subverts the free market. Suppose every time a competitor rented office space, you bought
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by peyton 11y ago
I agree it's wrong. I was just elaborating on the reasons it happened, as I haven't seen it explained in press and I know people who were affected in 2005 when this started.
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by peyton 11y ago
I think that's a straw man. Buying out a competitor's employees en masse is an anticompetitive tactic that, if used widely, arguably may negatively affect the health of the industry as a whole. Not saying these executives' ac
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by peyton 11y ago
I was under the impression this agreement, at least initially, was to prevent anticompetitive poaching. Suppose Apple wants to dominate search. One way to do so is to poach every Google search engineer by offering to triple their salaries.
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by peyton 11y ago
Honest question: isn't wealth distribution thought to be fractal? So economic inequality should grow as an economy expands, but that alone doesn't imply there must be less for an arbitrary participant. I don't know much about
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by peyton 11y ago
Is it possible that firms in trouble need to offer higher compensation to attract and retain CEOs? I skimmed the paper and couldn't find a counter argument, but I didn't understand all the jargon.
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by peyton 11y ago
The thinness is to generate an emotional reaction. When you pick up an iPhone in an Apple Store, it's supposed to feel so nice in your hands that you have to buy it, specs be damned.
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by peyton 11y ago
Wow, this comment is really shocking to me. Wow, wow, wow. I hope your child turns out okay :/
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by peyton 11y ago
Cloaking for testing new screen sizes? It's a beta, after all.
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by peyton 11y ago
That "fire" drivers very quickly in response to passenger feedback and ban passengers in response to driver feedback. Doing so solves a significant subset of the problems with public transit.
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by peyton 11y ago
It's not clear-cut, that's for sure. I just wanted to post a different perspective. Thing is, if you asked the sender for permission to post pieces of their email, they'd probably say no. It seems a bit gauche to say posting
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by peyton 11y ago
Hey, I don't think it's appropriate to post publicly information that somebody divulged to you in confidence.

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