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by traek 9y ago
> The real problem is when you're stuck only paying the interest, and the debt increases. That is what is happening at the MTA.
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by traek 9y ago
Because the US, like most other countries, has decided for various reasons that unlimited immigration is not a goal of visa legislation.
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by traek 9y ago
How?
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by traek 9y ago
Tax planning/tax avoidance as described in this article is completely legal.
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by traek 9y ago
3 billion monthly active users. They hit 2 billion this summer [1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15880494/facebook-2-billi...
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by traek 9y ago
> OK, so how is the success of that funnel measured vis-a-vis other promotional channels? What difference does it make? If it’s profitable, it’s profitable. > And are you able to demonstrate definitively that a visitor from FB conc
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by traek 9y ago
Anything society has the resources to do now, we’ll have the resources to do after the advent of driverless cars. Driverless cars will strictly increase productivity—they let us produce more output with the same input of labor and capital
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by traek 9y ago
No. The JS would still be need to referenced by the page, this just affects preloading of assets.
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The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis(esquire.com)
325 points by traek 9y ago|248 comments
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From the article, talking about Decatur but generally describing "many rural towns": > Like many rural towns, Decatur once fed itself and shared its bounty with the rest of America. At the turn of the 20th century, it had a tom
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by traek 9y ago
“addressing the boss's boss” isn’t referring to writing for high-level decision makers at other organizations, it means writing for people within Microsoft.
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Collaborative filtering methods vs non-collaborative-filtering recommendation methods.
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by traek 9y ago
> Fair enough. Let's crowdfund a lobbyist. That's essentially what nonprofits like the EFF are.
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by traek 9y ago
She* [0] [0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshang/
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by traek 9y ago
Yes, but that's only on the capital gains. You still pay income tax on the value of the equity when it's granted.
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by traek 9y ago
Instagram has never been a paid app.
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by traek 9y ago
If you define "core competence" sufficiently vaguely then sure, everything can be related to that core competence. "a logistics business, both information and physical"? Really? Calling their massive retail business, ori
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by traek 9y ago
In what way is the billions of dollars Amazon is spending on original content "just an extention to feeding the retailing monster"? It's easy to point to one failed product as proof that "straying too far doesn't wo
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by traek 9y ago
> I wonder how many of those companies even bothered to check the license, given how fast they have to move? Airbnb, Netflix, and Dropbox? I guarantee you all of those companies have lawyers that reviewed the license.
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by traek 9y ago
That's the non-standard Apple Pay JavaScript API [1]. [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepayjs
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Wal-Mart is buying trendy e-commerce sites. The cool kids are not having it(latimes.com)
3 points by traek 9y ago|0 comments
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HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183
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It's the New Yorker's humor section.
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And should Coinbase then be obligated to distribute those useless tokens?
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by traek 9y ago
Yes, that is the correct way to parse it. That implies that Uber has at least 3k managers, possibly more. OP was commenting that >3k managers seems like a high proportion of their ~12k total employees.
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The intention clearly seems to be for the watch to be worn on the same arm that you hold the gun with.
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by traek 9y ago
There's a startup called AMP Robotics[1] based out in Boulder doing exactly this. [1] https://www.amprobotics.com/value-proposition
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by traek 9y ago
A good model really isn't good enough in medicine. Real data from clinical trials is needed, and nobody has an incentive to fund that.
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by traek 9y ago
You can decide that whenever you want, just change your follow settings for the page to 'See First' from 'Following'.
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by traek 9y ago
S/he gave an example already--Google Earth. Apple Maps also has generated 3D maps.

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