tomelgin

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by tomelgin 5y ago
And the American who said it stole that phrase from a Spaniard (Steve Jobs popularized it but he was quoting Pablo Picasso).
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by tomelgin 10y ago
https://newsroom.uber.com/uber-china-didi/ Doesn't say much more than what's covered in the Bloomberg article.
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by tomelgin 10y ago
It is a taxable LLC. He doesn't get the tax-benefits of setting up a nonprofit, but he has much more freedom in how to use the money (e.g. including making investments vs donations, and including non-tax-deductible political activism).
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by tomelgin 11y ago
None of them https://info.internet.org/en/2015/11/19/internet-org-myths-a...
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by tomelgin 14y ago
1,500 miles of high voltage transmission lines would cost a lot ($billions). Much more than the economic benefit of sharing power resources across the distinct markets. AEMO's National Transmission Network Development Plan [0] describes in
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by tomelgin 14y ago
No, but most of the early infrastructure for the internet was publicly-funded (between government labs and universities).
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by tomelgin 14y ago
I was looking for a citation for this study and found a good overview on Wikipedia (with citations), in case others are interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
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by tomelgin 14y ago
Agreed. Note the source -- folks who had gone home to die and spoke with a palliative care nurse, Bronnie Ware. There are many people who die without access to in-home hospice care.* Overall they tend to be poorer and I would bet they ha
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by tomelgin 15y ago
The battery lights display useful information by being visibly off. When you see 7 dots light up, you need to be able to see the 8th dark hole to know it's at 7/8 charge and not 7/7 or 7/10. Similarly for the charging indicator: when it's
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by tomelgin 15y ago
Before you consider buying a company and selling off its assets, you have to realize that when you own a company you also own its debt, and that if you liquidate you have to pay off all that debt (unless you can pocket the cash and file for
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by tomelgin 15y ago
I was also struck by the eye candy. Looks like they're using d3, with Isotope for animations. The projects' websites should get you started: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
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by tomelgin 15y ago
> equivalent would be that you're allowed to take out a fire insurance policy on your neighbors house, and then proceed to smoke cigarettes and flick the lit butts at his house Yes, hedge funds (and everyone) are allowed to bet on this.