throwmeaway33

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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
Sorry for the confusion. It's both. I think the equivalent of 5% of your salary is put to buying ESOP stock from a pool (I'm not entirely clear how the pool works exactly) Then separately an amount equivalent to about 20% of your
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
I'm also not a lawyer, but I think you wouldn't be able to make an ESOP for a startup. The value of the stock which you buy from the pool is determined by an outside auditor that evaluated the company. My guess is that startups ar
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
I guess I don't understand your argument; I said: "No advanced society (past a certain GDP) has slipped back into tyranny" I bring up Japan and Germany. I assumed you were not talking about modern Japan and Germany, and you w
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
None of those societies are modern by current standard and none had truly stable functioning democracies(russia and china? you can't be serious). I don't have a direct link to a study, but I'll quote this article http:/
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
This entirely depends on your loans. If you're loan rates are larger than the rate you're making in your 401k, then it's better to pay off the loans.
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
The problem with bonuses is that you aren't attracting talent with them. Say on paper you're offering a new hire 80K. At the end of the fiscal year they end up costing you 80K + the bonus. Sure you'll have happier workers, bu
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
He was being sarcastic. This has nothing to do with the principles of fascism. It may be tyrannical, but tyranny != fascism
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
If this became an issue then the laws would have to be changed to accommodate the new technology. We shouldn't reject new technology because our current laws aren't suited for it.
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
I wonder what the Russian's cut is. Since they are the only people that can send astronauts to space right now, they can charge basically any price they want.
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
"Imagine the US military firing tear gas and water cannons on protesters in Turkey and saying "It's OK, your government gave us permission". " I think you're having reading comprehension issues. It's not j
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
I remember doing the math in my undergraduate physics studies. Air molecules actually do not move very far when a vibration (ie. sounds) goes through them. Amazingly, high frequency sounds move air back and forth only a few angstroms. I can
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
To play devil's advocate: (and this isn't to excuse the US's actions, but to illustrate a major difference between what happened and what you're talking about) The big difference in this case is that we have tacit (or ma
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
My understanding of arsenic poisoning is that it binds to some proteins that inhibit some processes in cells. This means it eventually gets cleared from the system. So as long as you don't get a lethal dose it shouldn't cause lon
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
This crashes Opera....
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
None of what you said proves it's "essential". If you have liberty guaranteed by a legal system, then the government can't attack you. I mean they can but they'd be violating your rights, and for the sake of this
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
Is there no system to swap ownership of coins? If not there should be. You send X amount of bitcoins to a middle man who then gives you X amount back. Technically they will be different coins and they'll go to a different account #, so
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
"But it gives the government enormous power to make decisions about you " What the government can and can't do is limited by the rights granted to them by the constitution and other laws. They're extremely hamstrung. I
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by throwmeaway33 13y ago
I think you're example is a good example of how weak the arguments for privacy are. All I see are hyperbolic examples. My favorite ones are where people try to bring up how the lack of privacy lead to horrors like NAZI Germany or Iran
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
I'm always suspicious about these second hand stories; especially when they're dramatized like this. For instance he says: "You could apply to one and only one university. If you didn’t get in, you’d be conscripted into the army the followi
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
"When the warm days do arrive, though, the taiga blooms, and for a few short months it can seem almost welcoming." Hahaha. This guy has no idea what he's talking about. As someone who has been in the taiga in the summer, it's absolutely hor
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
As I explained the "rent" is just a way of extracting money from the franchise. They are not necessarily charging the local market rate for commercial real estate (if it's a very busy McDonalds they can charge way more). They don't realisti
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
You could make the back room potentially a lot smaller if it was all in a machine. As for the link - I don't buy his arguments: "First, it buys and sells properties, as one might suspect." I've never seen a McDonald's close down. I'm sure t
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
Smog != C02 People keep treating the two as if they're the same. They point at Beijing and think global warming. Having more efficient power-plants, catalytic converters on cars, filtration, less use of coal, and more advanced engines in ge
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
Well, how do you communicate with the robots? Radio waves don't penetrate water. So say you have a robot that's autonomously floating around look at stuff and then it goes by a giant squid. There is no one to tell it "Hey! Look, a giant squ
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
"my phones usually last quite a long time without the screen turned on." It's important to remember that this isn't just because the display is off - it's also because the device is in a low power state. Try having an app running with the s
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
In my rather limited experience this doesn't work. Ex: Say you are working on just one feature for your company's software. Most people, including myself, aren't able to sit for 8-10 hours a day in front of the computer working on just one
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
Patents don't last 30 years. And yes, there is a balance, and I'm not suggesting it's been reached. I just want to dispel the notion that it'll all be hunky dory with no patent laws.
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by throwmeaway33 14y ago
That's a really simplistic. The real world isn't that simple and it can take years to get your business off the ground. Suppose the original inventor spent several years perfecting a 3D printing process and then 4 months after he starts sel