ajkessler

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by ajkessler 14y ago
Why not? (Honest question.) We have states that have no personal income tax. Not surprisingly, these states are doing fine because they raise revenue other ways.
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Steal This Idea: Lock Screen Emergency Contact(ajkesslerblog.com)
4 points by ajkessler 14y ago|1 comments
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Most companies don't have 4000 employees, or need 1000 robots. Like every business, you add capacity as necessary. Diapers.com started with one mom and minivan.
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Ripe bananas are yellow, but painting a green banana yellow does not ripen it. You're making a huge assumption here that the way someone's mind works is fixed and unalterable. I don't believe this. I think, and have some personal experi
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Uh, this is actually a pretty good idea, if you could implement it. It would have to filter out background noise, and would be tough to make it work in a crowd, but it seems like a decent aid, at least for those who are lucid enough to und
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by ajkessler 15y ago
>>No one really wants to help you unless there is something in it for them or it fits into their larger plan.<< Some good points, but I've found this one to be wildly untrue. Almost universally, I've found really successfu
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by ajkessler 15y ago
This seems like the most important question... Since the paper is paywalled, and science reporting is terrible, can someone with access inform us just what the hell the fungus turns the plastic into?
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Which manufacturers rely on point and shoots to stay afloat? You're point is valid, though not exactly contrarian. The decline of point and shoots became pretty obvious when the iphone 3g was released. I'm sure this is why every manufactu
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Revenue is (estimated at) already over $4b a year: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-20/facebook-revenue-wi...
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Right, but if the suburbs weren't so sparse... they wouldn't be suburbs. The empty space is precisely the reason many people choose to live there.
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Sure. But since income disparity has soared in the last 40 years and crime rates have plummeted, even if they have plummeted everywhere, this indicates that inequality, if it has any effect at all, is likely pretty minor. I think this would
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by ajkessler 15y ago
How do you explain some of the highest income disparity in the last century with the lowest crime rates, well, pretty much ever?
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Most dividends are taxed at the appropriate long-term capital gains rate, for now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
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by ajkessler 15y ago
In theory, you're right: courts don't make laws. In practice, courts make law every day. This is intuitively obvious (e.g. If law says you can't do A or C but says nothing about B, and the court says "B is really just like A and C, so B i
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by ajkessler 15y ago
One of the most famous is US v. Carolene ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Carolene_Produ... ), but there are hundreds, maybe thousands of examples. Even when they don't contain actual law, footnotes often give insights into
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Some of our most important caselaw is contained in footnotes.
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You're Not a Perfectionist, You're Just Scared(ajkesslerblog.com)
2 points by ajkessler 15y ago|0 comments
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by ajkessler 15y ago
1. I didn't check your numbers, but I'll assume you're correct. However, in my experience, film does not even come close to approaching those theoretical lp/mm numbers. This test, done with Ektachrome instead of Ektar, reflects my own fin
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by ajkessler 15y ago
He's talking about anti-aliasing filters ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing_filter ), which essentially blur the image enough to mask moire ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moire ). Because this is the internet, I feel obliged to po
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by ajkessler 15y ago
While he seems well meaning, his point is a bit silly and shows a lack of understanding as to how capitalism works. >> Instead of measuring ourselves by the size of our Series A or our average profit per employee, let’s measure in l
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Chase Permanent Wins, Then Throw Them Away(ajkesslerblog.com)
1 points by ajkessler 15y ago|0 comments
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Significantly higher relative to life expectancy of someone who makes it to 10 years old, but still incredibly low in the Western world. It's likely close enough to 0 that it just isn't visible on the graph.
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by ajkessler 15y ago
But, how long you live might affect how many children you have. Think of it this way: if you knew you had a high probability of living to 80, you might decide to have fewer offspring so that you could dedicate your earnings to supporting yo
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by ajkessler 15y ago
I don't think a finer thing could be said about a man. http://www.ajkesslerblog.com/a-hell-of-a-eulogy/
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by ajkessler 15y ago
He has a habit of deleting almost all of the posts on his tumblr. When he started the account, he actually said he was only going to have one or two posts up at any one time. It's kind of surprising the number he's got up now (although th
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Providing value is nothing more than fulfilling someone else's desire, whether that desire is for a shiny new car that accelerates very quickly, or a new way to communicate, or something pretty to look at, or something delicious to eat, or
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Historically, those industries required less talented people in order to stay in business. Somebody has to sell the product, answer the phones, sweep the floors, etc. If you created a company that could operate with out all of those less
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by ajkessler 15y ago
“Five hundred people will have job security for the next decade, but how much value does it create for the entire economy ? It may not be enough to dramatically improve living standards in the U.S. over the next decade or two decades.” It
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The Problem With Old People(ajkesslerblog.com)
4 points by ajkessler 15y ago|1 comments
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by ajkessler 15y ago
RE your first point, you're sort of correct. Courts can award treble damages for willful and wanton infringement of a patent. Courts don't award treble damages willy nilly; they seem to award them when you intentionally rip off somebody's

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