ultraluminous

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by ultraluminous 8y ago
"...many companies find ways to skirt corporate tax... but not all, and not really the majority (but preferentially the huge companies)" So that's basically the case for progressive corporate tax. Everyone acknowledges that s
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
Which system is identifying the 10x engineer? What generates that gap in pay? It sorts of sounds like you are trying to fit reality into a model and not vice versa.
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
Thee last part of the transport is not marginal in the real world. Increased local consumption drives transport, retail, marketing, etc. etc. Real life economic modeling is not a simple supply/demand, widgets made/sold chart.
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
"after Wikileaks and Snowden" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden "In 2013, Snowden was hired by an NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA.[1] On Ma
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
Well, your explanation is also fundamentally wrong. There is nothing "stupider" about learning how to arrive to a consensus and how to drive a result. The notion that learning math "makes" your thinking "smarter&quo
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
I think that's a very very narrow and specific definition of identity that most literature would disagree with. There's far more to identity then racial identity (or sexual/gender for that matter). People incorporate anything
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
I don't have an opinion on the subject in either direction, but I was struck by this sentence - "ketamine doc who realizes that the situation he's treating requires psychiatry for optimum outcome, recognizes they lack said e
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
The point being made that you're repeatedly ignoring is that that in this scenario the staff gets the tips. Only the staff. In no point in time, whether it's individual tips or tips sharing, does the restaurant receive any p
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
All these arguments about Moral/Legal liability are just head-scathingly nonsensical to me. Look, if you're pulling external dependencies into your project from anywhere , and you don't version pin and hash compare those dep
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
You can also just configure the client to point to a single db node and have an applicative monitoring based update to the db connection string upon failover. Then you're not actually dependent on your client loadbanacing logic. It&#x2
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
There's a substantial difference between High Availability (HA) clustering and Load Sharing (LS) clustering. In an HA cluster a production database can run on a single active node while replicating to a separate standby node. Network
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
What if they retired at 35 after selling their parents company or inherited real estate? Or do you think that's rare in a country that doesn't believe in inheritance taxes?
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
What does any of that have to do with anything? I don't know if you've heard of the concept but working in shifts is a thing. It even allows employers to stagger their employees' schedules such that they can acheive a 24&#x2F
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
The problem is that the interviewer asks for a number . If the question was phrased as "How would you go about finding out the GoogleAds B2B revenue in Italy for 2017, which tools and methods would you use", I'd totally go f
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
There's very little to no correlation between "difficulty to get adoption/sales" and "time to market". This very article is about displacing Amazon (founded in 1994) in the ecommerce space and the very top com
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
That's one more of those "irrational exuberance" regarding the future of autonomous driving. It would never even come close to being legal if it's only better than the average driver. It will need to be better than the
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
1) That assumes that what drives housing prices is residential ownership. 2) What is a "justifiable" P/E multiple? What is the justification (other than past values) for _any_ P/E ratio? What were the drivers of either
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
I bet you'd get a similar answer from psychologists mostly because well adjusted people tend to not visit them. You're also making a selection bias, assuming people that see a psychologist are not well adjusted. It's equall
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Car companies and software companies have completely different capital requirements and cash-flow constraints. Tesla is not a small software startup. They are a 40-60 billion industrial manufacturing company that is burning through its alre
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Though I agree with you that bankers should face many many more personal repercussions to engaging in improper risk management, but stabilizing banks is not about bailing the rich. The financial system holds not only main street's depo
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
I've had no trouble taking cabs and ubers to and from the bronx at least a dozen of times (and in particular the south bronx) at all hours of the night and all days of the week. A few times it was an uber pool that had other riders in
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
The funny thing is that for all your grandstanding about developer importance and productivity and what not, the only point you successfully manage to get across is that you are an obnoxious child that no one would wish to work with.
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
The in-kind rule is not going to apply to any kind of crypto. TFA states it's now formally restricted to domestic real-estate.
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
It does answer your question - what you're misundestanding is that "distributing money throughout the economy" is fiscal policy, not monetary policy. That's what the OP meant by "fiscal policy is necessary&quot
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
What you did is point out a few real problems in our current economic reality of which inflation is one part. In no way does this say anything about how deflation solves any of them, or even leads to worse scenarios.. Think about the
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Still in alpha but accepts real-money deposits in the tens of thousands. I think the market was unprepared for anyone being that brazen.
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
Bin packing is the actual academic term for this class of problems so the intended snark in using quotes is a bit misplaced. Furthermore, running k8s to pack containers into AWS instances that are are themselves actually full blown VMs runn
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
What he's describing is that the overwhelmingly vast majority of people (who are supposed to replace fiat with ctypto in the future) reside on one end of the pole. The end with all the real-life, non-ideologically-constrained usabili
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
"maybe you made them angry and tried to do something illegal on their site so they shut your user down." Ahh, crypto-punk-decentralized-liberatrians never seize to amaze with the level of double-think they can achieve. How some
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by ultraluminous 9y ago
This is childish and disingenuous. Yes, counterparty party risk can only be reduced. And only mathematical constants can actually be absolute. However for practical people operating in the real world there's an infinite difference

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