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by rprasad 14y ago
Apple spent more money on advertising than any other company in the world. Generally, spending a lot of money on marketing tends to work wonders for selling products.
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The difference is that Lehman's Bro's liabilities far exceed their liquidable assets or access to credit. JPM has sufficient liquidable assets to cover their losses, and is in a far better position to raise equity or access credit to cover
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by rprasad 14y ago
More to the point: the customer list is the intellectual property of WakeMate, and has commercial value to the company. Using the customer list without reimbursing WakeMate (or some other arrangement, including for example WakeMate contribu
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by rprasad 14y ago
The point of the original study was: 1) For weight loss, how many calories you eat (or don't eat) matters more than any other factor. 2) Once the weight loss period has ended , the type of diet (i.e., the balance of calorie types consumed)
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by rprasad 14y ago
I think what he's saying is that the noun is poorlly chosen. The proper, unambiguous sentence should have been: "some of the donuts were eaten" or "some of the donuts were not eaten." The "not" is correctly used in either case, except in t
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by rprasad 14y ago
Other studies have explained/tried to explain how the low-carb diet (i.e., Atkins) work. The basis gist of those studies is that the body burns fat reserves instead of carbs. Burning fat requires more energy than burning carbs, which incr
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by rprasad 14y ago
The point was more than the caloric intake should be balanced across carbs, fats, and proteins (the exact ratios would vary depending on need). In other words, low-carb or low-fat were worse overall than a diet which did not artificially d
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1) Available to OEMs does not mean that any OEMs had yet released phones with it on my carrier. I have unlimited data, which effectively shackles me to the carrier unless I want to give that up for a pitiful 2-4 GB/month. 2) I connect to
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by rprasad 14y ago
According to reddit commenters, the reddit poster was making 6 figures (in Euros) for a data entry job (another HN commenter put this number at 250,000, but I couldn't find anything on reddit to support that). The manager was apparently on
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by rprasad 14y ago
Whoops you are right. I meant Ice Cream Sandwich, not Jelly Bean. But my point stands. Most people buy new phones on a 2 year cycle when their contract expires. I buy phones on a 2-year cycle. I am not expecting tremendous engineering r
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My phone, purchased brand-new last summer (the model itself is almost, but not quite a year old), still runs Android 2.3. It will run Android 2.3 forever, even though Google owns the company that made it. Jelly Bean, released last year, is
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I've worked with plenty of otherwise competent people who could spend 5-10 minutes trying to find a website link or form submit button that was right in front of them . Peggy provides better, faster feedback than a "forgot password" link d
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That would be standard operating procedure. The kid's program (if it really exists) would be company property, and his failure to turn over the password could result in civil litigation (or potentially, but unlikely) criminal prosecution.
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Different circumstances, but still illegal in California because it restricts the freedom of employment of Meebo's employees. No-poaching clauses are illegal in California, but poaching clauses can contain "referral fees" under which the
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I agree. this story plays out exactly like every teenage coder's wet dream. It's got everything: persecution, vindication, crap boss who for some reason gets fired for firing the teenager ( in the real world, firing someone who refused to
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Gonzo Producer: Hey pizza guy, I want to use your pizza store to film a porno. It's completly legal! Pizza Guy: No, I have legitimate customers here! You'll drive family customers away! Gonzo Producer: You're behaving immorally! It's not i
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by rprasad 14y ago
Dropbox is behaving morally. They are choosing not to allow a product/service that they know will be overwhelmingly used for copyright violations. This is not theft, but it does cause meaningful and measurable economic harm to the owners
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Contracts do not have to be written. That's the first thing you learn the second week of law school.
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Dropbox is taking a moral stand. They are taking a stand against piracy. They choose not to be part of the problem. Sure, Boxopus could be used for legal purposes, just as bittorrent could be used for legal purposes. But everyone on
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by rprasad 14y ago
Non-profit status is primarily about your goals, not your revenue, hoever, earning too much profit (revenue>expenses) can endanger your nonprofit status. If you take in revenue, the revenue-generating activity must be strongly related
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by rprasad 14y ago
Groove is now Office Communicator (and parts of it are also now part of Sharepoint). It is the enterprise IM software for any company that has legally-imposed archiving requirements for their communications. Nobody talks about Groove or O
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by rprasad 14y ago
Let me repeat myself: Vons was not allowed to bring up the information about the plaintiff's alleged alcoholism. The jury would not have been allowed to hear this information in any court unless Vons could have shown (to the judge, before
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Vons threatened to introduce the issue at trial. They were not allowed to introduce the evidence at trial, and they did not. Ultimately, the shopper failed to prove his case. He claimed Vons was negligent for not cleaning up spilled yogur
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by rprasad 14y ago
Logos are copyrightable. They are also trademarkeable. They are not, however, patentable, except to the extent that they are three dimensional, in which case they may be eligible for patent design protection. I have a hard time trusting
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Of course my comments are US-centric. Hacker News is a US-centric forum. Distributing profit as dividends is "falsely allocating income" if you are not paying yourself a reasonable salary, to the extent that you have redirected salary inco
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I think Harvest is the one I've seen used most by consultants, though it only has a narrow lead over others. Freshbooks integrates with Expensify via API sharing, though the last time I looked at it, this solution was more expensive than Ha
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I suggest you read the article more carefully. The comedian in the article is being investigated for using a tax shelter to evade British taxes. If you read more about the K2 tax shelter, you will learn that British tax authorities consid
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You have now suggested two forms of tax evasion: falsely allocating income to "dividends" and using offshore tax shelters. Please stop trying to give tax advice. Bonuses are income. They are taxed as ordinary income (or the equivalent of
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What you have suggested is tax evasion. You must pay yourself reasonable rates, otherwise, you will be treated as evading employment taxes. For a white collar job, that means significantly more than minimum wage. The penalties (higher bac
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So...it's competing with Craigslist by building an OS-limited mobile app that posts items to Craigslist. And they want 10% of any sales. Craiglist is accessible from any device, and it is free. They really need to put more thought into the

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