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by uiri 10y ago
Google's quarterly revenue is roughly $20B[1] - that's $80B per year. I think that it is perfectly plausible that an engineer could achieve a 0.125% increase in yearly revenue. Now, disentangling that from other possible contribut
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At my University, there were Calc I, II and III - roughly AB, BC and Multivariate. Calc I is a review of the high school curriculum (at least for local students). I think having a quick review of the chain rule and proceeding from there wou
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Reviewable.io is the one which I was thinking of. GitHub provides a list: https://github.com/integrations/feature/code-review I don't think that that is an exhaustive list; for instance GerritHub is missing (
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by uiri 10y ago
Make code reviews your number one priority. Be the place that people want to put their code in, because they can review code, significantly easier on your site, as opposed to GitHub's. This isn't really a high bar. Doing more th
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I don't view "own your own domain name" as an ICANN-exclusive solution. There are alternative DNS roots. If ICANN's administration of the root DNS servers becomes truly untenable, then it is possible to make a switch and
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It seems like it would qualify under the rules of an Other Nontaxable Exchange - Property Exchanged for Stock.[0] I think there are enough cases like this and the IRS rules are sufficiently clear that it will be possible to structure the VC
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No cash is needed to sell the assets or LLC to the C Corp. Most likely, you would sell the assets of the LLC to the C Corp in exchange for some number of shares (valued at the pre-money valuation of the company) and then issue additional sh
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An LLC can choose its tax status - that can be as a sole proprietorship (for single member LLCs; basically it all goes on your personal return), as a partnership/S corp or as a C Corp. I agree that you should either do a domestic LLC o
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by uiri 10y ago
Like with Linux User Groups, I think a lot of it depends upon your local section. I was an IEEE student member all through University so that I could participate in IEEEXtreme[0]. I did eventually become involved in the student branch and a
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by uiri 10y ago
For tax purposes, a Single-Member LLC can be treated as a disregarded entity (i.e. similar to a sole proprietorship - all the business income and expenses go on your personal return). https://www.irs.gov/businesses/smal
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interest rates on savings accounts [...] in the UK [are] competitive with government bonds. Looking at the rates for UK government bonds, it looks like those are also below inflation (e.g 5 year yields are around 0.6%). If there were any
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Unfortunately the ultimate rebalancer of wealth historically has been revolution and war. It's why the descendants of Roman plutocrats don't own the world now. The Early Roman Republic made a distinction between Patricians (aris
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I don't think that it has anything to do with there not being enough capital available in Canada but rather the risk tolerance of most Canadian investors. I wouldn't be surprised if those YC alumni were hesitant to make more bets
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I think that Scala uses semicolon terminated lines so you would write something like: foo = baz .list() .filter{ bar => condition(bar) } .map(transform(_)) .toList;
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As a Canadian, I'm doubtful that this is the case. There is a reason why almost all Canadian startups seek funding South of the border. In Canada, it is easier to get government grants than it is to secure venture capital.
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We have a similar bit of bullshit in British Columbia, where government health insurance is paid through premiums, administered outside of the tax system Those premiums come no where near actually covering the cost of government health in
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Is this legal? IANAL That said, fraud is usually defined as " An intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to
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Names do not meet the threshold of originality test[0]. Beyond that, your parents would be the copyright holder until their death when you would inherit it via their estate. They are potentially covered under trademark if you have a brand i
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Political party is fairly easy in the US via voter rolls for primary elections. Even if this list is held privately by the Party, they have an incentive to trade it for data about independent or undecided voters. Views & opinions are li
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In the US, Border Patrol only have the authority to do these things if you are attempting to enter the US. Apparently, that hasn't stopped them from asking politely on domestic flights: https://www.theatlantic.com/polit
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by uiri 10y ago
Why do you think that immortality is not just desirable but also inevitable? Death is part of life. The older you get, the more people whom you have met are dead. I don't think that viewing it as a horrifying tragedy is particularly he
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by uiri 10y ago
Chances are unlikely that you will be subjected to anything beyond a normal metal detector. I've never seen the full body scanners used as a primary screening step in Canada. https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/mediaroom&#x2F
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The numbers on the back - the CVV code - is essentially a cryptographic hash of the information on the front of the card: expiration date, name, card number, whatever else is on there. So each physical card should have a different CVV if th
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Yes, actually there is. Internal promotions at Alphabet are based on "launching". So these teams launch their products and then Google culls the ones that don't do well in the market.
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Most likely, the system of permanent residence status will remain in place for the next 5 years plus some buffer: https://www.gov.uk/eea-registration-certificate/permanent-re... I agree that, if I were you, I'd be
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If your investment basis is your cash outlay you make to acquire the property, then you should only count the value of the house minus the value of the mortgage as an asset on your balance sheet. Chances are, you will count the whole value
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So to figure out the overall value of the investment, you'd need to add up not just all the money it's going to cost the owner, but also subtract all the money the the owner did not have to pay in rent. I'm countering this
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Let's say we have two individuals - Alice and Bob - who each own a house. Each house has the same price on the real estate and on the rental markets. If Alice lives in Bob's house and pays rent to Bob and Bob lives in Alice's
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A house isn't an investment either though. An investment is an asset which is expected to go up in value faster than inflation. Housing prices track inflation. This is, on average, generally true; I'm not talking about a specific
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The poorest regions of Kenya are the arid northern regions (per the Daily Nation article I linked above). Admittedly, I want to take that article with a grain of salt, but it does make sense to me that the most difficult regions to farm wou

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