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by bwd 17y ago
These resources are called tax lawyers, and they are very expensive. The knowledge required to do this is very specialized and guarded with extreme zeal by its possessors. As is usual in any situation involving government regulation, the
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by bwd 17y ago
Regardless of whether politicians "support" it, I expect that most of them know that it's really good for the country in the long term. That's why I said that I hope Obama, who's been all about change, will have the brains (and the balls)
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by bwd 17y ago
Maybe Obama will be smart enough to start handing out green cards to anybody with an H1B who can hold a permanent position for two years. I'd much rather employ somebody who's motivated enough to leave their home country in search of oppor
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by bwd 17y ago
It seems likely that there are multiple effects here. Perhaps work has become skilled enough to produce large enough differences in productivity that it necessitates an adjustment to the model. This might help explain why the recent reces
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by bwd 17y ago
There may be some wisdom, but not a whole lot. Hiring on referrals is based on the idea that people will not refer idiots to you for fear of depleting their social capital, providing you with a fairly strong selection mechanism for talente
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by bwd 17y ago
I almost had to laugh, this sounds like a plot from an Ayn Rand novel.
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by bwd 17y ago
And the implication here is that the other industrialized nations are free-riders on development costs paid by the Americans and would probably need to pay more in their markets. Has anybody seen any research on how much of the difference b
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by bwd 17y ago
I am a US citizen as well and I agree that the thought of ditching my identity for tax purposes is very painful, but the American political system seems to become ever more broken. I've been living in Hong Kong for the past few months afte
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by bwd 17y ago
One thing that you must keep in mind is that if you get sick of high US taxes (and they only seem to be going higher) and you want to move someplace like Hong Kong, you will still need to pay US taxes, and you will even be forced to continu
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by bwd 17y ago
Both have had moments of awesome brilliance. Both have been slowly ground into the dirt by writers with no exciting new ideas who have gone to the well too many times and finally sucked it dry.
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by bwd 17y ago
Why are we still talking about proliferation? Proliferation has already happened: Pakistan has the bomb, North Korea has the bomb, Iran is probably building one. We were only ever going to delay the inevitable, once you prove that it can
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A Sample of Synthetic Human Skin for Just 34 Euros | Singularity Hub(singularityhub.com)
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by bwd 17y ago
No, the point is that unhedged systemic risk is only one component of the crisis, despite what the rest of the media is blaring. The other, and perhaps more important, component was zero down mortgages and cash-out refinancings that left b
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by bwd 17y ago
Most of the media don't have enough knowledge to get the story straight (remember that Lewis was once a bond trader), they just find the angle with the most emotional impact and drive it into the ground with very little regard for the actua
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by bwd 17y ago
He doesn't appear to be a quant, based on his linkedin profile. Looks like he had a telecom background, so he was probably working on the architecture of their co-located trading platform. In the automated trading world, co-location means
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by bwd 17y ago
I believe that the author is ignoring the importance of libraries for commercial work when bemoaning the slow uptake of lessons learned in language research. Learning a new language does not take a long time in comparison to the amount of
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by bwd 17y ago
I have an idea for reducing congestion in Manhattan: ban on-street parking. Only vehicles making deliveries with a valid permit should be permitted to park on the street, everybody else would have to use a garage. This should clear a few
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by bwd 17y ago
Does anybody else find this embedded document format as annoying as I do? This makes navigating with the mouse wheel extremely difficult.
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Veterinary Stem Cells: Why Your Dog Is Getting Better Treatment Than You(singularityhub.com)
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by bwd 17y ago
I've been kind of worried about this for a while. Week economic conditions place selection pressure on companies to learn to do more with less, and technology steadily improves the tools that are available to reach that goal. When the eco
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by bwd 17y ago
Fairly informative for someone like me who is interested in building their own hardware but doesn't have much experience. Power supplies are the scariest part due to the possibility of screaming electrical death (or at least a good strong
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by bwd 17y ago
There is now a comment on this blog entry purporting to be from someone on the Google web search team claiming that the site was removed because it had been hacked and that Google had attempted to contact the author.
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by bwd 17y ago
I disagree. There is a huge difference between insider trading and buying a company to sell off pieces of it and make the remainder more efficient through reorganization, even if the reorganization includes layoffs. In the former case, yo
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by bwd 17y ago
And remember that Gordon Gekko was Oliver Stone's foil for Carl Fox (the father of the main character) who was meant to embody the evil of the 80s takeover era. This speech was based on a University of California speech given by Ivan Boesk
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by bwd 17y ago
"How'd Krugman ever get accepted as an economist? He seems to be a massive doomcrier who is consistently wrong, and uses a lot of anecdotes and very few hard numbers." You need to separate Krugman's work as an academic economist from his wo
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by bwd 17y ago
The issues greatly depend on which country you are from. Your best bet is to speak to a lawyer because the issues are very complex, at least for US citizens.
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by bwd 17y ago
I think California succeeds in spike of its political system, not because of it. The bay area has fantastic weather, a cultured urban center, plenty of nearby outdoor activities, and a climate of technological innovation that predates many
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by bwd 17y ago
The quality of the argument against mutlithreading is undermined quite a bit by choosing one of the most poorly written networking library functions around. If you want to do this right, use libevent or Boost.Asio asynchronous resolvers. I
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by bwd 17y ago
Mostly looking to protect personal assets.
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by bwd 17y ago
How about asset protection strategies?

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