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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but hit up slideshare.net for "Starting a Business". There's a great tip in a lot of those presentations: Make a (non-family member) accountant your new best friend. Most CPAs have a "checklist" of what needs
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
GM did create part of the credit crisis. DiTech.com. Its primary business was the variable-rate (aka "teaser rate") ARMs and home equity re-financing. In short, GM put a sizable amount of cash into the sub-prime loan market, and got burned
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
No, see, people have the figure wrong. It costs GM $73/hour for labor because GM is still supporting retirees (that retire early, at age 50) with health care and a 70% salary pension. To cover those costs, for some reason, they cover it as
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
How? How is that an important distinction? Do you honestly think your right to be with someone of the opposite sex is somehow better than someone's desire to be with someone of the same sex, and if so, on what rational grounds?
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Its not smart to know that. Its confident they will be bailed out.
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
They're NOT messing with a word that's been defined for clearly a long time. I don't think they'd define the pleas for equality before the law to be considered "messing" or "trouble making". You DO realize that the definition of marriage
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Yeah. I'm all about the 'traditional marriage' myself. You know, where my lord's regent picks my wife from one of the other serf's, pays her father a small dowry, lets my lord enact Prima Nocte, and then unloads her onto me, where she's my
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
So should my parents marriage be invalidated, seeing as my mother has undergone menopause, and thus, they can "never have children naturally" anymore? What about anorexia survivors? Malnutrition plays hell with uterine linings. Should we de
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
All the more of an argument to let them fail. If the "free market" does not think it is a good investment/risk ratio, why let the taxpayers take it?
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Opal, their major EU brand, is profitable. Like BMW brought us the mini-cooper, a GM bankruptcy could bring us tiny turbo diesel cars that get 50+ MPG and run forever with non-chintzy interiors. I know I'm dreaming. This money is going to b
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Sometimes a one time upfront cost is optimal than a high overhead for all your operations. Its like sorting an array of integers (O(nlogn) so you can rapidly search it with Binary Search (O(logn) rather than having to do a linear O(n) every
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
The problem is UAW doesn't want to re-negotiate because it knows there's no way it will ever have its standard of living this good ever again. GM and Ford would probably insist on slashing wages by half. Already new hires who are not UAW ar
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Yeah. For real engineers, and not just computer programmers, I would say none of those are true. Unless we're reading Wired during the dot.com era, where any yuppie anywhere could do anything via laptop and internet. Seriously tho: -Real En
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
I know the wash-out rate at my school -- just during the "freshmen engineering" program was 50%. The next year, the wash out rate was 25%. They don't want airline safety / nuclear reactor controls / bridges devices made by D students. And t
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Yeah, their real job interviews stopped asking "how would move move mt. fuji" questions in the early to mid-90s. They now ask programming questions. It turns out the people that are really good at solving those brainteasers are also really
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Agreed.GM's management of the US market of cars has also been horrible. During the SUV boom, GM was losing money on most cars. Rather than try to change the car from a "loss leader" to "revenue generating", they focused on extracting revenu
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
The other reason they might be gaining so much marketshare is that some of their customer base is opting to buy new machines rather than have relatively minor repair work done. (The Mac Book he bought for $325 comes to mind.)
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
You've been paying taxes all your life, and that, in essence, is not socialism. Its called Progressive taxation. Many states in the US have their state income tax set up this way (the more you make, they more they take. In state that do not
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
You've got citations to back up your fears, don' you? I've love to see the horrible, horrible unintended consequence of seatbelt laws.
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
With regards to unions, the government refused to back the GM-Chrysler loans to build "fuel efficient cars". With regards to Wall St., AIG has received almost $123 billion in government-backed loans. If anything, it seems like the non-union
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Correction: Android had more downloads of its SDKs in its first year. Which isn't surprising, since anyone could download it, and it only required Java knowledge. Apple's SDK required permission to download, a signed NDA, and to really be p
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Stop me if I'm wrong, but Apple actually got AT&T to develop features on the backend of their network to get visual voicemail working. Android was also a bid from Google to have the newly opened bit of spectrum be a "utility" band, wher
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
I have a security clearance and have worked in the DefCon industry for about 3 years. Every secure room area I've had has had an area for you to lock up electronic devices you might use outside of a secure area, such as cameras, flash drive
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
This reads like a submarine PR-post. At least Twitter is trying to woo investors and users alike with WSJ articles.
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
I wrote one of those "advice for college graduates" articles after only working for 2 years -- 1 year in a cube farm where you were a thing, not a person, and another in larger company that gave people offices, windows, had wellness progra
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Nonsense. Unions have been targeted ever since the civil rights movement; the labor movement gave rise to organized communities of (African-American) workers eager to get rights outside of the shop floor. Its one of the very reasons the lab
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Yes. The average liberal arts major makes almost $9,000/year off their writings. You can make twice that much by rehearsing the phrase "Would you like fries with that, sir?". The sad thing is, that blurb should be read in the beginning of e
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by redrobot5050 18y ago
Also, one thing that's interesting about ycombinator's application, compared to a competitor such as alphalab.org is how much their application focuses on you, the founder, and your relationship to other founders. The advice my friend Jerem