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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Per my other comment, the military's cut is 16% of 3.8 trillion. Energy, Environment, and Science take a combined 2%. Social Security and Medicare take a combined 60% (!), which are funded by entirely separate taxes (payroll taxes). Am
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Maybe he wants to prop up that share price so he can become the world's richest man again :) Amazon is expanding really heavily into so many verticals. It is crazy to see. I don't think they will stop the spending, but maybe they
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Amazon can't escape paying Medicare and Social Security taxes. So, they are definitely paying into that, along with everyone else who pays payroll taxes. So, if you exclude those two things from the budget [0], you'll see that mil
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
The author is acting like this wasn't an intended phenomenon. I don't understand the mental gymnastics required to NOT see this. Bezos decided, "we need to grow, and to grow we need equipment and real estate, so I'm goin
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Amazon decided to "re-invest" all profits back into equipment and etc for the business. Thus there are very few profits to tax. Wal-Mart decided to what, I guess keep all the cash on hand or something. I didn't look up their
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
I'm almost certain I would rather starve. Wow. Why live life like that? The only way to win is to not play!
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Cool post! What happens when every company is doing this ritual? I'm starting to notice a very bad trend. Just like how LA has record numbers of homeless people, it also has a high vacancy rate. Similarly, despite plenty of "open
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Please drop me your contact info if you'd like :) Yeah the more I hear now, I think you should network with whoever will give you more solid advice from the Y Combinator network, or any of the other ones out there. Someone you trust ca
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Hmm interesting, yeah I guess life isn't usually very clear cut! I've been fired before by asshole bosses who pushed me to work extremely hard, deliver excellent results (which I did), and then fired me anyway, you know? Someone&#
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Some states are 70mph, and most cops won't pull people over unless they're doing 10-15mph over. Unless you are just really unlucky XD
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Sorry for the late reply! I'm going to continue to think outloud here for you, just my thoughts :) I think if the addressable market is only 54mm then an accelerator might not be too interested. You would also need a cofounder in their
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
If you have a few dozen people who want to pay you what, a total of $2,000 a month, you are already better than 99% of businesses. Paul Graham had 50 customers for Viaweb like this, and eventually scaled it to 200 before being acquired. If
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Hmm, an interesting pullback. Usually the US is pretty persistent in remaining in even the most dangerous places. I actually turned down a state department job because of the dangerous placements. Additionally, it isn't clear who is do
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Most people cruise at a speed that is faster than everyone else in the other (non-left) lanes. But, please don't be the car that is cruising at 60mph in the left lane. It is a leading cause of accidents.
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Are you very very profitable? Does everyone really like him? This situation is compounded by the fact that you are a small group and there's nothing gravely wrong with him. I know most people feel differently but the only way I'm
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
>the US will have no choice [but to switch to a better, non-SSN based system] I absolutely hope this happens too... ... but I have a feeling all of the banks and agencies involved will find a way to plug their ears more and pretend nothi
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Ubisoft Montreal took on a lot of funding and received an office space too from QC provincial government. In return they produced a ton of hits, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Prince of Persia, Donald Duck's Goin' Quacke
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
more users, more paying users, less hackers, less downtime, faster iteration, product market fit
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Thank you for your perspective :) High end as in iphone 5c, iphone 6, or iphone 7? My iphone 5c, cracked screen, was like $40 off of ebay or something. When it came out, the original price was like 200-400 depending on contracts and gb capa
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Yup that's what I think too. Guy has a thing for lottery tickets as income. Covered his tracks by keeping thousands and thousands of non-winning tickets that he probably bought bulk for pennies per box. Feds show up and see the boxes a
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-americans-spend-their-mon... Here's a chart of how a middle class American family currently spend their money. Please note 74k in income is pre tax, and 57k in expenses is post tax. S
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Thank you for writing :) I suppose I have two points to make from your comments: 1) You are similar to most Americans in that you already have a phone that is ideal for your needs, and that phone isn't an iPhone X 2) You are different,
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Probably just caught a lucky break when they didn't want to search through the 20 boxes of duds he bought from 7/11 for less than the cost of paper ;)
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Paying them a premium is not precisely accurate. A $100,000 lottery ticket would in the US involve 30-45k in taxes for an unmarried person. So I bet it would probably sell for around $75,000 cash up front, which is a decrease from the stick
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
var equifaxTellsUs = 'A small number of UK and Canadian consumers'; function waitAFewDays() { equifaxTellsUs = '400,000 UK customers'; } waitAFewDays();
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Do you fear a world where multiple political entities (Obama, FBI, Singapore, Pentagon) have publicly requested laws that magically require you to somehow decrypt your users' data, else you go to prison for contempt? It reminds me of t
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
What I think is also important to consider is median income and net worth of US citizens at that time. In the early 50s, much pf Europe and Asia was still rebuilding from war, and the US held an effective monopoly on multiple industries. Fr
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Re: your last point, I hope the God I don't believe in helps us... At this point, if they spend time going after people for that type of technicality, then it's only a matter of time before they get all of us in prison for somethi
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Hey, thanks for writing! Love tarsnap and scrypt :) Just utterly amazing. Hentai is now child porn. How many hentai pictures are stored on Tarsnap??! Those images might be stored on US servers. Time for you to grant a "backdoor" t
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by quuquuquu 9y ago
Sheesh, I need to get my eyes checked!! Thank you for clarifying. Is it me or was this densely worded?

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