vadimberman

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by vadimberman 9y ago
Very interesting. I heard of Benford's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Accounting_fra... ) that is used to detect accounting fraud. Are there other known mathematical models to detect fraud?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> I do not think taxation should get singled out as a deciding factor where to setup a business, but could be considered in the round with all the other operational costs. Simple math. Say, if your venture succeeds, you net a lump sum of
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by vadimberman 9y ago
It's not the companies, it's their owners. The simple test is, if the company management changes to someone of a different faith, will they praise the same religious belief? The answer is clearly no, as no one in their right mind
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by vadimberman 9y ago
This is a very interesting case, thanks. Not sure why a crafts store must provide contraception (I read a few times to make sure I got it right), and IMO they are just grasping at legal straws to fight off a ridiculous suit. But, like you s
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by vadimberman 9y ago
A weird comparison. I wonder where he took the numbers from. I can tell from experience that the Australian taxation authorities make the US taxation authorities look like a gift-giving Santa. I also dealt extensively with Europe, and Europ
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Can anyone comment on the taxation situation? I mean, it may not be very interesting in the beginning when the earnings are not very far from zero, but as the startup grows, and the stock incentives become more tangible, it's becoming
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> Somewhat unintuitively, American corporations today enjoy many of the same rights as American citizens. Both, for instance, are entitled to the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. I keep hearing that but what does it even me
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Like Philip Seymour Hoffman in the last part of Hunger Games? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/17/philip-seymour-...
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by vadimberman 9y ago
A lot of good stuff, yes. But the advances of the last decade are dwarfed by the advances of 1990s.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
There was a lot of bullshit but there was a lot of substance. Off the top of my head: * server-side web * first web-based payments * VoIP * first mobile devices * e-commerce * text messaging * music piracy... I mean, sharing * search engine
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> He had fought the Boer War for the Dutch Sorry for the dumb question, but... He was in his 60s during WWII when he was captured?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> I've been around Silicon Valley since the late 90s. It hasn't changed. I haven't been there physically but observed it from the distance. Google or not, wasn't the Silicon Valley of the 1990s more about creating new
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by vadimberman 9y ago
The link posted above mentions completely driverless trains as well (grade 4).
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Like the drones?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
More pragmatically, it will be a way to leapfrog gridlock. The traffic in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, India, Vietnam make the American traffic look like a joke. I agree with most of your post, but I can't agree with this: > t
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Only if the company outside of the US trades in the US. But that normally involves setting up a subsidiary, in which case they do have a US company. There is no such thing as an international patent.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> EDIT (March 2, 2018): It appears that there are multiple "GTX Corps", so I want to make it clear that the ones going after us don't have much of an online presence IANAL, just was curious about the identity and did some
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by vadimberman 9y ago
(Filthy thoughts aside) Why the differentiation? What's the purpose of the nurses visiting?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> That sounds like a good plan if you have good insurance, but it doesn't sound like a sustainable way to improve health care service to a wider population A home visit of a physician is hardly a new concept. If I'm not mistake
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Wow. How is a system not supporting the most widespread desktop platform on the planet claiming to be cross-platform? Having said that, there might be a way. From their FAQ: > It might well be possible to make it work using Cygwin or Min
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by vadimberman 9y ago
I guess the statistics that would matter more to the HN readers are not there, so I'll ask: what about the tech opportunities specifically?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Whatever happens, kudos to Made In Space! These guys have tenacity.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> How does any ideological utopia work without excluding anyone? https://www.amazon.com/Polystate-Thought-Experiment-Distribu...
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> McBride of PROS said that 11 of the company's airline clients are already using its software to generate real-time dynamic offers within direct sales channels, including their websites. So, no changes then? It's just a matter
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Pretty sure there will be a whole industry of intermediaries. Just like the consolidators and travel agencies now, they could brand the process "price optimisation".
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Actually, yes. DJI and Yi-Hang. These ones are truly impressive. But apart from this, KPIs aside, the Chinese landscape is amazingly scarce innovation-wise. If one has to tout bikesharing as innovation, it sounds like there's not much
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Would you be interested in a plug&play optimised production tool if it required licensing?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Now with numbers and without comments from European anthropologists in Singapore: https://qz.com/1185488/chinese-scientists-used-crispr-gene-e... . Spoiler alert: I wouldn't want any other country to follow the ex
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by vadimberman 9y ago
It's not at all a unique setup, sadly.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
That was the problem, it was not economically viable to mass-produce. I'm sure it will be solved, the question is when...

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