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871karma·659submissions·March 14, 2017
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You do auctions for 64k and 500 for startup founders.
Then you set up an extra pool of 10k for startup employees. The company has to be younger than 6 years, raise at least 1 mln from venture capital …
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https://canny.io/
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The coup was most likely staged to get this vote.
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Do you know was the effective tax back then? (it was much easier to hide money and the deductions were greater)
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Depends what he/she does with the money. There are many things that government won't do and there is no market for it e.g. Polio vaccine. You have to have wealthy individuals to fund these i…
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because that's one of the greatest incentives for people to create wealth. Why would I work and create wealth if I can't give it to my children or to charity that I created? Let's consu…
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and how would you implement that?
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The thing is that the whole debate is skewed. As a politician I want to capture the political capital, but I can't do it without providing solutions. I think the job automation is the major contr…
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A friend that works for Emirates managed to get this way to home on Christmas. There are usually 2 spare jump seats. You put 2 pilots there and 2 where the couple was. The flight is quite short.
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Why not use the jump seats?
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That depends how it's implemented. If this is a low pass filter that can tell you if the event happen then the abuse will be close to zero.
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>> In 2010, British women got their state pension at 60 and men got theirs at 65. By October 2020, both sexes will have to wait until they are 66. By 2028, the age will rise again, to 67. >Ho…
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>Australia is close to seizing the global crown for the longest streak of economic growth thanks to a mixture of policy guile and outrageous fortune. It's the same true for Poland and a few ot…
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Keep in mind how small USA was 240 years ago. In 1910 it was 90m comparing to Germany 62m.
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And also the delivery of goods.
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Moving to Switzerland.
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After Turkey shot their plane?
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And you base that on what? Tesla is doing 10x improvements in automations and will force BMW/Audi/Mercedes to do it as well.
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Doesn't matter. It's not the "source code" that runs in courts.
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Law written in English is a huge advantage.
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I don't think he approves or condemns. He says that monopoly of craftsmanship(product so good that you don't want to switch) like Google is not that bad. It seems the antitrust action is ine…
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Netflix recommendations are quite bad. You've seen this standup? How about watching it again a day later.
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Unless you are prosecuted by accident, news papers write about you and charges are dropped. You apply for a job, someone googles you and reply with "Thank you for your time. Unfortunately..."…
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How come? I thought WebAssembly was designed with GC in mind.
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What if we discover a tumor in his brain that caused this and after removing it he will be a perfectly sound and reasonable person? Should we keep him in forever? What about death penalty?
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Yeah I'm really surprised that they don't do something similar to https://buffer.com/salary or stackoverflow. I applied to Gitlab, but then I noticed the calculator. London …
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It's much better if you isolate yourself than do nothing. https://www.troyhunt.com/going-dark-online-privacy-and-anony... …
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Peter Thiel - Zero to One
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I'm above the average looking guy. When I added my picture to LinkedIn the amount of spam increased substantially. People are really biased creatures. Usually the intent is not malicious, but rat…