jericsinger

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by jericsinger 10y ago
I promise you, everyone is trying their best. But the food and ingredient supply chain is extremely complex and doesn't lend itself to strict structure. Tracking an ingredient through multiple vendors in multiple countries while it cha
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by jericsinger 10y ago
Not quite. What would happen is that people would get rung up on drug trafficking charges and then the IRS would pile on by taxing the undeclared illegal income. In the late 70s/early 80s, a case[1] made its way through the tax courts
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by jericsinger 10y ago
This is not true. It's possible, perhaps probable, that Phillip-Morris employees have invested personally in the industry, but all retail states so far have strict domesticity requirements that no national corporation could satisfy.
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by jericsinger 10y ago
You're correct. And the ordering guidelines are...extensive. https://www.drugabuse.gov/ordering-guidelines-marijuana-mari...
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by jericsinger 10y ago
It's utterly pharmaceutical. The consumer market thinks of marijuana in terms of whole strains. The federal government, or more precisely, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which directs UM's program, thinks of marijuan
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by jericsinger 10y ago
Organized crime is pretty well purged from Colorado (and likely Oregon and Washington as well). Prior to retail taking effect, the DEA and Colorado law enforcement flushed out anyone with even a remote relationship with, call it, persons of
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by jericsinger 10y ago
This is called traceability, and it's a fundamental aspect of food quality and good manufacturing practice (GMP) throughout the food industry. The devil is in the documenting.
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Hardware Naughty or Nice – 2014 Edition(bitsofcents.com)
2 points by jericsinger 12y ago|1 comments
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Laurie Simon Hodrick on Apple's Cash Holdings(youtube.com)
1 points by jericsinger 13y ago|0 comments
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by jericsinger 13y ago
There are a few things worth noting when talking about Balmer and MSFT's share price. Since 2004, MSFT has returned over $164 billion [1] to shareholders in a ~50/50 split of buybacks and dividends -- on today's balance sheet
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N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91(nytimes.com)
27 points by jericsinger 14y ago|8 comments
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Venture Capital Family Tree(reactionwheel.blogspot.com)
1 points by jericsinger 14y ago|0 comments
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by jericsinger 15y ago
Network-based business models have always tended toward monopoly (AT&T, ConEd, and Western Union, to name a few early US examples). The internet doesn't change this dynamic at all; rather, by providing the first (more or less) open netw
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Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns(scientificamerican.com)
103 points by jericsinger 15y ago|23 comments
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Foursquare Lists - The Missing Search Feature(google.com)
1 points by jericsinger 15y ago|0 comments
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by jericsinger 15y ago
If you read through, this actually has a super interesting purpose. From the site: >Why are we doing this? Our research group is interested in the use of technology for development. We are building a low-cost, low-power cell phone base
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Why Escalators Bring Out the Best in People(scientificamerican.com)
15 points by jericsinger 15y ago|1 comments
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Trying to Game Swoopo (part 2)(jcs.org)
1 points by jericsinger 15y ago|0 comments
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A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959(astronautix.com)
32 points by jericsinger 16y ago|18 comments
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CBS acquires Clicker.com, puts founder in charge of all CBS web properties(mashable.com)
3 points by jericsinger 16y ago|0 comments
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All You Wanted to Know About Digital Sky Technologies(vccircle.com)
1 points by jericsinger 16y ago|0 comments
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Sky Technologies(justin-singer.com)
3 points by jericsinger 16y ago|1 comments
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The VC pitch: Confidence wanted(informationarbitrage.com)
5 points by jericsinger 16y ago|0 comments
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by jericsinger 16y ago
Actually, there's a much better writeup in the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-1222-orbitz-aa...
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American Airlines Leaves Orbitz(nytimes.com)
30 points by jericsinger 16y ago|9 comments
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The Entrepreneur/Investor Covenant(informationarbitrage.com)
2 points by jericsinger 16y ago|0 comments
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Is It Wise to Take Strategic Investment as a Startup?(informationarbitrage.com)
3 points by jericsinger 16y ago|0 comments
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On Raising a Fund: The IA Ventures Story(informationarbitrage.com)
4 points by jericsinger 16y ago|0 comments
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by jericsinger 16y ago
Well put. It's embarrassing, but it's the sort of thing that is bound to happen when you scale so fast so leanly. I'm sure they'll come out of this with a number of improvements and be much the stronger for it. And if they don't, then th
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What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones?(motherjones.com)
3 points by jericsinger 16y ago|0 comments

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