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by rprasad 14y ago
A good waiter will probably be 100x better than a bad waiter. If you've never had a truly good waiter though, you'd never know just how good a skilled server can be. A fast construction worker can easily be 100x faster than a slow one. Th
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by rprasad 14y ago
I think you greatly overestimate how much power a billion dollars provides...especially since the IRS would lay claim to that billion if he ever tried to return to the U.S. Why would they work out a deal when they could get their hands on
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by rprasad 14y ago
I did specify "McDonalds" for a reason. McDonalds has always had great employee relations. In-n-out is even better than McD's in this regard, but the total opportunity for growth is limited because of the smaller footprint. Hardees (Carl'
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by rprasad 14y ago
It is free and unlimited to the extent that your bandwidth is free and unlimited. Cubby is basically just a program that transfers files from one computer to another; it doesn't need to use the Cubby servers for that. 5gb of online cloud
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by rprasad 14y ago
The "statute of frauds" doctrine only applies to certain types of transactions. Most transactions, including employment agreements (or for example, selling your business) can be executed verbally.
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by rprasad 14y ago
Often people don't sue over verbal contracts is because the burden of proof that one existed/exists is very difficult. Oh, they definitely sue over verbal contracts all the time. Just trying watching any of the dozen Judge X shows on TV
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by rprasad 14y ago
Contracts can be verbal. That's the first thing you learn in law school. Having a written contract as evidence is helpful, but testimony (however self-serving) of an alleged contract constitutes legal proof.
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by rprasad 14y ago
Flipping burgers can be a damn good pathway to an executive position in the fast food industry, as long as you actually put the effort into it. Turnover is high in the fast food industry, so promotions are rapid. College graduates who stic
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by rprasad 14y ago
Flipping burgers at McDonalds is a good way to get your foot in the door if you work at it. Shift managers can make $50-75k, and location managers frequently top $100k. Given the high rates of turnover, such positions can be earned in 2-3
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by rprasad 14y ago
He is not eligible for that program (the EB5 visa), as a result of renouncing his citizenship.
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by rprasad 14y ago
Essentially, yes. A person who renounces U.S. citizenship is generally not able to take advantage of the special visa programs (like the EB5 investor program) to regain residency. Furthermore, their applications for visas, etc., are also (
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by rprasad 14y ago
it would make a BOATLOAD of money for both the networks and the operators. Only if by "boatload" you mean one of those little toy boats that floats in the bathtub. Last year, NBC, the lowest rated broadcast channel, reported $4.2 billio
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by rprasad 15y ago
The code is expression. Neither can enforce the code against the other; both can enforce against third parties (with registration). Machine code cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law. It is not an issue in the Oracle/Google case. You can
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by rprasad 15y ago
The difference between idea and expression of software: Idea=the abstraction Expression=the code, UML diagram, compiled binary, etc. It's really not that complicated.
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by rprasad 15y ago
First, your are calculating the total collective wages of a corporation's employees. I refer to the individual wages. Corporate taxes do not decrease individual wages, though they may impact the total number of employees hired...in smalle
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by rprasad 15y ago
Flagged. Why are we citing a tabloid with a known history for making up stories as an authoritative source for technology news?
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by rprasad 15y ago
You wouldn't say that if you knew how most charities operate... As for "gaming the system." I mean that they are attempting to maximize their outcome by "playing" all of the rules available. (For example, by committing a holding foul to pr
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by rprasad 15y ago
As I said, the "related regulations necessary to prevent abuse." The FBAR and foreign asset reporting requirements which you are referring to are the direct outgrowth of wealthy Americans using offshore accounts and investments to evade ta
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by rprasad 15y ago
Ethics and legality are not the same thing. For example, it is legal for judges to hit up parties before their court for campaign donations. However, it is not ethical for them to do so.
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by rprasad 15y ago
(1) The tax system is very simple if you're not trying to game the system to (EDIT: changed from "or") minimize your tax burden. Almost all of the complexity arises from the allowance for deductions and the related regulations necessary
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by rprasad 15y ago
By design, the U.S. government cannot be run like a business. The Founding Fathers consciously and deliberately chose to make the federal government as structurally inefficient as possible so that the actual exercise of federal powers (whi
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by rprasad 15y ago
Money does not grow on trees; it does however grow in cotton plantations. Corporate taxes decrease profits for shareholders, but do not decreas wages for employees. By definition, corporate taxes are taxes on profits , so employee wages ha
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by rprasad 15y ago
A/B testing is merely a variation of data-based business planning that has been taught in business schools for at least 70 years. The typical business scenario is grocery stores, which have been conducting such tests for decades (in particu
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by rprasad 15y ago
Step 1: Build a social networking application built on someone else's platform. Step 2: Spend lots of someone else's money to acquire users. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Get acquired by a larger company. Still not profitable, but your founders and
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by rprasad 15y ago
It does not actually require transmission, as others have noted. That BS was added by BGR to increase rageviews. The law merely requires that black boxes be interoperable with specified tools for reading from black boxes, i.e., by incorpor
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by rprasad 15y ago
How to legally watch Game of Thrones: 1) Turn on the TV. 2) Change channel to HBO. 3) DONE. That is infinitely easier for most of the population than downloading a torrent; it takes at most 4 button presses. If your TV is too old to handle
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by rprasad 15y ago
* I think they'd make more money than they do now. But that would likely upset their current deals with the cable companies, and it would be a fundamental business model change.* They've done the math, and they wouldn't make more money than
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by rprasad 15y ago
Stay in UNI, and do freelance at the same time. That way, by the time you finish, you'll have a decent client base from which to do freelancing full-time.
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by rprasad 15y ago
TLDR summary: An alternative point of view written by a shareholder with a substantial financial stake in people believing that Groupon has a future. This guy trusts the same CFO whose staggering negligence and/or incompetence has resulted
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by rprasad 15y ago
Skype uses P2P to handle the majority of "call" data, so the load on their servers increases less than proportionately as the number of users increases.

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