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by shawnee_ 10y ago
The University of Utah deal — laid out in contracts obtained by STAT through a public records request ... Four tax experts who reviewed the contracts at STAT’s request all agreed that the Utah deal was suspicious. Two said it appeared to
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Rock the boat, people. You are a part of your company's culture: not an observer of it, not a victim of it. From an article I wrote a couple years ago: "My two cents for the conversation is pretty simple: there are only two differ
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Interesting to read this today. A couple weeks ago, I sent my nephew a new Rasp Pi, custom wood case, book, breadboard kit package for his birthday... and am just in the process of filing a claim on it. Problem is, I was kind of coerced by
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
The article is going over a paper[0] that asks what would happen to house prices if houses were treated as disposable consumer goods instead of a means of storing wealth. We kind of already know the answer to this: "Rental cars get t
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Material can turn sunlight, heat, and movement into electricity(publishing.aip.org)
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Previously-accumulated USDA data (that has already been paid for and is technically a public good) has been blacked out also. Source: https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-u-s-government-data-... The USDA announced that
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
It's a really good analysis. Even moreso through the postmortem lens of where we are today (relative to where we were when Paul Graham originally published his essay ~2004). As you noted, the section about "Wealth and Power"
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
When it comes to civil liberties, smaller government is always a good thing but literally no party supports that Perhaps you should try to re-frame your statement in the context of local vs state vs federal government. In reality, a gover
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I wonder if a better one sentence conclusion might be something like "Predictably nice players consistently distribute their gains to the group". After all, the interesting variable here is repeatability; that is, as certain play
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The fairly recent landmark decision in Browning-Ferris[1] should take a few steps toward curbing the abuses of this practice. Not only for H1B workers, but also for many of the kinds of people that tend to get -- in this commenter's w
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And compact development produces on average about 10 times more tax revenue per acre. So the author of this article is trying to sell this approach based on the "benefit" of tax revenue per acre? Is that (should that be) the pr
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US EIA now provides hourly electricity operating data(eia.gov)
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Still the lousiest of the lousiest. After its IPO, GDDY became one of those companies that tweaks its numbers in such a way that it siphons off all the wealth created by its employees up into management salaries and executive compensation.
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"mandatory binding arbitration clause" Wells Fargo hay have put an arbitration clause somewhere buried in their fine print; however, "binding" is what would be questioned by the courts. Probably pretty easy to r
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
My landlord takes the risk of owning the property, and I pay a premium for that. You pay a premium so your landlord can take risk to get the most lucrative profits? Why, you are a benevolent renter, aren't you? By your logic, ownin
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
the median Trump supporter had a higher income than the median Clinton supporter. This is exactly it. Small-town America is a very different beast from suburban America. Most small town residents tend to pride themselves on their self-s
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
> * British Columbia punishes renters, as it taxes 'passive income' (i.e. rent), which discourages owners from renting out existing properties or building-to-rent.* There are so many incorrect statements in this sentence, I don
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Business startup ideas are essentially experiments in economic theory. Yet HN comments are vastly inferior to Reddit's when regarding anything to do with economics. It didn't used to be this way, and I kind of miss the HN of old..
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In all, the proposals' opponents have raised more than $1.8 million against the measures in the five cities, according to campaign finance records, largely from groups like the National Association of Realtors and an array of landlord
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Airbnb profits from high volume and turnover, just as landlords and Realtors get their cut every time there's a turnover in occupancy. Interestingly, this is the root problem at both ends -- from people living in poverty (Portland&#x2
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Trying to debug why our app in the container isn't working is not fun at all. My experience with AWS was similar, and I got to a point where I had to stop accepting clients who had built (or insisted on building) their infrastructure
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Sometimes it's hard to follow the logic of conversations on Twitter. In this case, I'm pretty sure the original question posed by DHH was simply: has Thiel put more money into Trump's candidacy, or investing in promising YC
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Twitter is the classic example of waiting too long to IPO. I understand there's a sort of cultish wisdom to delay an IPO for as long as (legally) possible; however, the underlying sustainability of a business either "just works&qu
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Interesting write-up of the prize-winning research into contract theory and "optimal" incentives. In his first major contribution, Holmström showed what set of performance measures should be part of the contract. His so-called &q
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The man who designed your bonus just won the Nobel Prize in Economics(afr.com)
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"Please don't sign comments; they're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile. " Applies to job title, too. Yes, even at companies who are
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Genetically engineered pond slime yields hydrogen power(jpost.com)
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tl;dr The carried interest provision is a tax benefit offered to some investors, allowing them to multiply their reward in successful ventures by giving them extra tax breaks when those they fund turn out to be wildly successful. / t
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An interesting delve into some of the deeper nuances of the Business Judgment Rule: http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10... In the article, Nader is objecting to the extraction of wealth by ma
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
No. Most wealthy people don't evade, they avoid. To be technically correct, it really is evasion when the purpose is to violate the spirit of the law. Which is, very very simple: wealthier people paying more taxes is supposed to h

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