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by tsotha 11y ago
What's the point of griping about compensation at startups? If you don't like the job offer, don't take it. Work at a big company instead. If you have a more remunerative job offer from a big grey company and you still take
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He's not suing for patent infringement (I know - surprise). He's suing for "misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract". This is the kind of suit you file when you show your business plan to potential inve
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>And all buyers always have a "pre approved loan" (which is binding from the bank, they can't reneg it). Yes they can. I've never seen one of those "pre-approved" loans that was actually contractual. All t
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Yeah, part of the problem is perfect grades no longer stand out much. Top tier colleges continually turn away students with perfect grades and very high test scores. I have nieces and nephews that age, and from what I can tell getting in t
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Only because Congress is happy with things the way they are. Letting the NSA (and other agencies) carry on with these kinds of programs gives them an out no matter what happens. If the program gets discovered and the public is upset legisl
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The risk, of course, is they might rule it's legal.
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That's my impression. The world is full of nanotech factories - we call them bacteria. They assemble molecules as necessary, but they don't do it the way it's done on the macro scale, because the macro-scale model doesn&#x2
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by tsotha 11y ago
I think companies should remain focused on their core product. If you find yourself in a buggy whip industry the best thing to do, IMO, is to reduce expenses as much as possible and return as much profit as possible to the shareholders. W
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>I'm not reading about the massive backlog of forfeiture cases, mostly it seems like people don't even try. For two reasons. One, you can't afford a lawyer because the government took your money. And two, there's no
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I hope you're right. I doubt it, but we'll see.
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Yeah, I meant criminal. It's fixed.
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Civil asset forfeitures are like those towns in BFE that operate on ticket revenue - the situation rarely gets dealt with because the number of people getting tickets is an insignificant proportion of the voting population.
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The DEA isn't a company. They already get a budget from the treasury and shouldn't be behaving like a profit-making concern. "Lucrative" is the right word.
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It's hard to get your money back because the government treats it as if it weren't your money. What happens is since the DEA can't prove you're involved in a crime they sue... your money. There will be a case in federa
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You're right, but in the end you're wrong. The missing step here is people who own properties have other places they can put their money. If, as a result of increased taxes, owning rentals isn't bringing in enough profit to
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I doubt they had any trouble seeing the decline. The question is what should they have done? Competing directly with cable companies in wiring up homes for broadband is a mug's game. This was before it was reasonable to do with fiber
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Except the price people would be willing to pay would be more as rents increased. You have to live somewhere. Landlords don't eat tax increases. Anywhere, ever.
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>With one distinction: What they did, was a joke compared to what is going on today in many western countries. The Stasi had a third of East Germans spying on the other two thirds, and to be fingered meant to disappear in the night. Don
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>If true, it also provides more explicit verification that SA and Pakistan are terrible allies at best. This was already the world's worst kept secret. Anybody with more than a passing involvement in A-stan knows the Pakistanis, in
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This is what I was responding to: >They had the idea that developers could live on the ship and freely visit Silicon Valley.
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There are good reasons to see your doctor periodically even if you feel fine. It's a lot easier to treat diabetes and hypertension before they become symptomatic than it is to find you a new kidney.
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I don't see why anyone would do that versus opening up yet another body shop in Bangalore or Manila. People without visas are not going to be able to visit the valley anyway.
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As someone who has had to fight to get tests which later turned out to be critical, I can't help but wonder we're seeing more articles like this one just as the government, having assumed much more control of the health care syste
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>If you want to work in software, try to go for companies whose main product is software. I used to think this before I worked at a software company. The problem is software companies have far more time pressure, particularly small and
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>When someone offers him a better job, free of the legacy system's constraints -- one that pays four times as much, as Aleynikov's new job with Teza Technologies did -- the bank enlists the FBI's help in going after him f
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That's not the normal case. The people the military actually accepts are smarter than average and come from a family that's wealthier than average. These are guys (mostly) who are in to pick up marketable skills or they're
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>Take for example the recent shooting in South Carolina, where a policeman shot a man who was running away from a traffic stop. He could have just let the guy go. And he was trained to do just that. That's why he's being charg
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Vietnam was the last US war fought with draftees. That was a long time ago.
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And it always will, because that's where the money comes from. It's a patronage machine - higher salaries --> more money for union supporters --> more union supporters in office --> higher salaries...
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I think this goes back to the VA-Tech shooting, where some nutter chained the doors shut and shot everyone inside one of the buildings. After that there was a great hue and cry because his therapists knew he was dangerous but it was illega

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