marrington

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by marrington 9y ago
"Otherwise their wealth will dwindle over time and others will have a shot" Wealth is not a zero sum game, it's the opposite. Wealth creates more wealth for the society around us.
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by marrington 10y ago
I really like memeorandum.com for this. Like Techmeme, its sister site, it groups news stories by topic. You can read all sides. It gives you an excellent overview of how easy it is to put bias into what appears to be objective coverage.
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by marrington 10y ago
They can easily dig under a fence. Fences can't (at reasonable expense) keep coyotes or wolves out of any large area.
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by marrington 10y ago
This discrepancy, and people's unwillingness to intellectually engage with it, is what allows the extremely wealthy to be just fine with society demonizing high income people. Once you have stored wealth, you don't care any more b
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by marrington 10y ago
As a U.S. citizen, if I make the choice not to interact with the U.S. economy and move somewhere outside the U.S., I still have to give the government their cut. Only way out is to relinquish U.S. citizenship. No other developed country req
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by marrington 10y ago
Yeah we do that about once a week and it helps.It's not really pizza but whatever it is is pretty good.
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by marrington 10y ago
At the beginning of this year I was easily 100 lbs overweight. Decided it was all coming off this year. Started counting every calorie with myfitnesspal, later started looking at macros as well. Weight started coming off but it really accel
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by marrington 10y ago
The National Association of Realtors argues that removing the mortgage interest deduction would reduce home values by 15%. There are likely other less biased studies as well but that was the first that I found during a quick search. More at
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by marrington 11y ago
"integrity or other nonsense"
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by marrington 11y ago
agree
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by marrington 11y ago
What's most interesting about this to me is the ranking of the startups by user demand for the virtual stock.
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by marrington 11y ago
Certainly yes, but it usually takes longer than 3 minutes to figure stuff out. What I really need is an hour at least with a startup 1 on 1 to know if I'm really interested. But like I said above, that doesn't scale with so many c
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by marrington 11y ago
Yes it's really hard as an investor to 1) stay alert through hours and dozens of startups, and 2) actually understand enough of what they do from the presentations to know if you want to know more. Not perfect by any means, but I certa
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by marrington 12y ago
I'm a former lawyer and currently a VC. I really can't imagine a situation where I'd ask a company to sign an NDA in connection with a potential investment. If the information isn't confidential I'd just tell them.
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by marrington 13y ago
This looks good to me, as long as it's enforceable (as in the state sees it as a valid, binding contract). It's still debt until it converts as far as I can tell, which is the only way I know of to give the company money today for
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by marrington 15y ago
I think companies will be quite willing to open up. I share the concern on the time compression though. My gut said 20 minutes per company would still be interesting with the right companies/people. But this is an experiment, let's see how