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by stult 10y ago
>Doesn't this take money away from your firm? No, because we are in fact competing on cost and client-recognized quality, and to a lesser extent time. Plus our fees are driven more by the market than by our actual costs, so if we bi
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Yes, it is insanely frustrating. I think I did fairly well in law school in part because I wrote a program to auto-format my cites, which saved me hours of mindless, awful, pedantic, irrelevant blue booking. >The firm charges their clien
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That's pretty much true in general. Our fees are dictated more by the market than our actual costs. So if we were billing fewer hours, we'd just raise the hourly billing rate for our associates. From our perspective in the nationa
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Actually, I'm a lawyer and a product owner at a big accounting firm, so I'm pretty well positioned to discuss this topic. I have half a dozen solid startup ideas that I'm tempted to take and start running with right now. Docu
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If only you could find a (trustworthy and competent) secretary willing to work full time for $12k/year...
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I don't disagree with your analysis, but I also think the article is right that SV business in general lacks an understanding of life in the "fly over" states. I don't see that as a moral failing necessarily, because, as
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Yeah but that's a secured loan. The machinery is the collateral.
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I'm totally just guessing, but possibly they still need training data for the new hardware configuration which they will collect from the newly sold cars. They could pay testers to drive them around for a while to generate that data or
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It's something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Denying minorities equal access to lending limits demand for houses in minority-dominated areas, which in turn limits the return on housing in such areas. Similarly, when white people start
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It's also partially because the "upper crust" of intelligent, wealthy individuals is far less locally invested than in the past. They're more mobile and tend to connect with others and communities less because of geograp
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Absolutely. The model is far too simplified to have any real explanatory power. The most basic premise is flawed. Goods and services aren't perfectly complementary. I might want a burger from a restaurant, but it's too expensive s
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There was a similar case a few years ago, where a guy made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars by exploiting a bug in a video poker machine. The casinos sued him, claiming the money was fraudulently obtained. His lawyer claimed he had
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The Supreme Court established a test for determining when a government search triggering Fourth Amendment protections has occurred in Katz v. United States (1967). The majority ruled that a government intrusion into an area where a person
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There are a lot of good replies here regarding the economics, but they've all missed a rather simple and glaring cause of the disparate price: a house was a far simpler construction back then. In 1300, most houses were single story, si
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by stult 11y ago
>For example, I've heard there's a substantial tax savings when investing in US R&D. Yeah, but not that much savings. The calculation is complicated, but taxpayers usually don't recuperate more than 5-10% of their qu
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I suspect that Mossack Fonseca avoids taking on American clients to skirt the federal Foreign Accounting Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). FATCA gives the IRS many powerful tools to pressure foreign banks and financial institutions to disclose in
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>Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion isn't. I am a tax professional and this is pretty much the motto of the profession. ;) Anyway, I don't think the significant thrust of this story pertains to tax avoidance or evasion. There
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Reminds me of that famous Marion Berry quote, "If you take out the killings, Washington [DC] actually has a very very low crime rate."
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I've actually been working on something similar, on and off for a few months. I work for an accounting firm, and we often need to scan and search thousands of invoices. I have a variety of ad hoc solutions slapped together, but an inte
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>I've been dreaming about a ballot proposition which says that if a person agreed to a contract that enforced binding arbitration, and was never given an opportunity to amend the contract, then the consumer would be eligible to pick
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"Not true, as the Chinese cities at the time were much more fortified than Europe. The Mongols were able to plunder the surrounding lands." That's a bit of an oversimplification. China was much closer to the Mongols' log
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>But neither “Serial” (which is otherwise notable for its thoroughness) nor “Making a Murderer” ever addresses the question of what rights and considerations should be extended to victims of violent crime, and under what circumstances th
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I'm really sick of seeing articles about this guy's book. He identifies a trend and claims that the trend will continue. Yet the existence of the trend itself has no inherent predictive value. Current income inequality does not te
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Is this a board member at your former or current employer? If it's the former, he's considered an insider so you did not disclose any information at all in the first place. If that's the case, you can ignore everything I say