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by yapcguy 13y ago
Read the Bitmessage white paper and you'll know why you should avoid Bitmessage: Every node will have a copy of every single message sent across the entire network. I believe the meme to use here is "Fail".
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Have they ever thought about leaving Oakland? I know it's not easy to just move, especially with family and job commitments, but I wonder if the people you know have ever mentioned what the breaking point would be.
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Fear white influx will erase West Oakland history(sfgate.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The cache is also down
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> To expect Airbnb research hotel laws and taxes in every country they operate in seems like an undue burden. A burden? More like a flagrant abuse of the law. It's hard to believe that Airbnb didn't bother researching the law
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Airbnb makes small admission on tax issue, saying its hosts should pay(sfbg.com)
45 points by yapcguy 13y ago|49 comments
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Income tax centennial: 100 years of income tax code(cnbc.com)
29 points by yapcguy 13y ago|6 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The question is why they felt they deserved a tax break in the first place. They even threatened to move to Australia at one stage. We're not talking about small businesses, strapped for cash, struggling to make ends meet, asking the
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Is it really where the "community" are converging? Docker is well-known because DotCloud is pushing it, so there's money for marketing and hype. Docker is an attempt to make DotCloud relevant. Docker will live on as an open-s
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by yapcguy 13y ago
How does CouchDB compare? What are the latest thoughts on this?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
You're right. It's still hard to recommend GIMP to someone looking for an alternative to Photoshop. Mongo is likely to be a similar distraction: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mong
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> They could easily be profitable if they cared to. > They don't need to run Twitter like you run a corner store. You know what the difference between a corner store and Twitter is? The corner store pays it taxes and doesn't
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by yapcguy 13y ago
So they are going to raise a war chest to do battle, hooray! Before they spend the money, will they refund the taxpayers of San Francisco for the tax break they got?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Exactly... What next? Send out internal emails saying "Hey, the company has just posted a new blog, but you don't need the actual link, instead just use the HackerNews one, or maybe this Reddit one..."
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It's like I stepped off a time machine and I'm in 1999 reading the Yahoo Finance message boards.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
How many are retweets rather than original tweets? How many are spam? How many are shady i.e. pay folk in the Philippines or Pakistan to send out tweets all day, to boost the numbers?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Past performance is not an indication of future... you know the rest. They're also on track to almost double their from 2012 to 2013. Why don't people ever look at the costs? There's a reason why they are on track to lose o
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Oh my god. They're bleeding money. If they don't IPO now, how much longer could they last for?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> after perusing the S-1 the revenue growth rate is incredible Well, one could also say that the growth rate of their cost base is incredible too.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> Since lying and cheating are pervasive ethics at Samsung (see: recent benchmarking results) Oh come on, this is silly. You don't think Apple manipulate benchmarks and statistics? Or deny product faults and quietly settle years lat
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by yapcguy 13y ago
HN does seem to like promoting blog posts by 42Floors on the front page and whenever I've read them I think "meh". Maybe this is all part of the soft marketing for YCombinator backed companies so they get technology "min
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Historical performance is not... you know the rest. Anyway, there is no evidence in that blog post to verify there has been 100% annual growth rate. Also, growth of WHAT? Is it growth of revenues? Number of employees? Number of customers
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Access (almost) all areas: the British passport is No.1 for visa-free travel(independent.co.uk)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Worth adding that most expats probably want to live a 'normal' life in their adopted country. That means using local bank accounts / credit cards, getting a mortgage, etc. Being resident and working probably means the state w
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by yapcguy 13y ago
What may be driving some people is simply the fear of getting the paperwork wrong. The penalties listed on the forms are scary. You can't just do it in Turbotax for 50 bucks, you need a qualified tax professional to help you. Good lu
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Microsoft Privacy Chief: Ceased carrying a cell phone & staunch open source user(hothardware.com)
6 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Ironically, even without the benchmark boosting, the Note 3 is still faster than the LG G2.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Both words 'marketplace' and 'exchange' are being used so that might confuse people. Obviously I don't expect it to look like a stock exchange with bid/ask but one of the ideas of having the marketplace was tha
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Why are they even called 'exchanges'? Are quotes coming in live from the healthcare providers? Can we get a feed to the data to chart price changes over time? At the moment it looks like the websites are fairly static and all we&#
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by yapcguy 13y ago
For California, the website looks okay, but might not really be ready. https://www.coveredca.com/coverage-basics/plans.html Click 'Health insurance companies for 2014' and you get a 404. Ouch. https:/&

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