will_brown

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by will_brown 7y ago
Well not to rock the boat or beat a dead horse here, but it would appear my down voting/flagging privileges have been removed since this post, could they be reinstated?
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by will_brown 7y ago
>The public markets are generally very unforgiving. This is why so many tech companies are choosing to stay private longer. Can you even explain what that means? In my estimation the companies are staying private longer so the VCs can bl
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by will_brown 7y ago
>There is no way where Bird becomes a viable business that grows into its absurd valuation. I was recently chided and reproached by the HN mods for knocking scooter companies (even got the old “this isn’t personal, but don’t...”). the po
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by will_brown 7y ago
>From a computer science perspective, what should Google do to train its models in a privacy conscious way? Install these devices in the homes of google employees, executives and offices and allow the public to listen in. What’s good fo
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by will_brown 7y ago
Because the US doesn’t care about helping people who would take public transportation...instead we prefer VCs funneling money into innovative startups disrupting transportation by littering scooters all over our public walkways and allowing
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Contrast this with acquiring a business name through any Department of State/Division of Corporations. What do you mean by this? Generally if a corporate name is registered (example: ABC, INC.) most states will not allow another “A
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by will_brown 7y ago
Here is a suggestion for the strike as well...launch a decentralized anti-libra coin.
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Coinbase Down(coinbase.com)
1 points by will_brown 7y ago|0 comments
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by will_brown 7y ago
I thought about that, and it’s just spit balling something off the cuff, but address to address self-spending may have positive impacts on the network vis-a-vis additional transaction fees for miners.
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by will_brown 7y ago
Maybe Satoshi should have built in such a feature into bitcoin (you don’t use it you lose it). That would have been a much more interesting dynamic (maybe) insofar as the original concept of P2P cash which morphed into digital gold/st
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by will_brown 7y ago
And of course Schlegel diagrams which are commonly used for visualizing four-dimensional polytopes. It’s been over 100 years (very close in time to the publication of flatland) and I don’t think anyone has proposed an alternative diagram of
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by will_brown 7y ago
As I mention to a number of other comments...it simply depends on the accounting method. It can be waived (not treated as income at all as you say) or it can be treated as income (taxes paid) and the loss carried forward for future deductio
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by will_brown 7y ago
Sorry I meant “accrual method of accounting” auto corrected to “actual”...looks like you caught my gist.
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by will_brown 7y ago
That’s exactly how it’s done under accrued accounting. And in health care paying taxes on uncollected Billings and carrying the loses forward can make a lot of financial sense.
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by will_brown 7y ago
That’s insurance based healthcare in a nutshell. Insurance doesn’t negotiate just rates but the actual reimbursements. The real fraud is the fact that insurance companies have been buying up health care practices/hospital systems and
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by will_brown 7y ago
>The best thing for the doctor is to get paid (and pay taxes on) $400. No...the best thing is for the doctor to not upset the insurance company and get dropped from their network and lose all their patients. Remember the famous line if y
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by will_brown 7y ago
>People complain about 20U$S copays on doctor visits that bill 400U$S to insurance. Well if that’s the case...it’s because the $400 bill isn’t the real cost for the service and insurance actually pays $0 of the bilked $400. What happens
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by will_brown 7y ago
>I don't think these are Google's customers or users. Think about how both yelp and TripAdvisor both built out their websites to comply with Google SEO rules (for organic search) and used Google AdWords (to pay for keyword ads
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by will_brown 7y ago
>DuckDuckgo is a minor player, but microsoft's Bing isn't. Bing has 5% market share of search. You also don’t see Microsoft leveraging the 5% market share to create competing businesses and then self bidding on search engine ke
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by will_brown 7y ago
While the small pox/disease ridden blankets may or may not be factual, there is plenty of historical records predating Europeans landing in the Americas of using disease in warfare. When sieging cities in antiquity water supplies would
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by will_brown 7y ago
Read harder? Don’t resort to ad hominem attacks because you don’t know or understand the law. Walmart allegedly bribed foreign officials they didn’t try to bribe the “cops” for bringing the bribery charges. Although you can’t distinguish t
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Compare Walmart committing bribery to me attempting to bribe my way out of speeding ticket. But that is how the ticket industry works...you get the ticket, hire a lawyer, the lawyer “negotiates” a deal to plead no contest in exchange fo
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How facebooks libra is similar in concept and motivation to kiks kin(techcrunch.com)
2 points by will_brown 7y ago|0 comments
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by will_brown 7y ago
>No, you are extrapolating that based off your understanding. Improved mitochondria might...mean nothing. No...there are numerous studies on the proven benefits of improved mitochondrial function/capacity. One of the benefits is ce
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Poll: Will You Use Libra?
6 points by will_brown 7y ago|1 comments
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by will_brown 7y ago
Yes
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by will_brown 7y ago
No
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by will_brown 7y ago
I don’t know
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by will_brown 7y ago
So you have bitcoin, visit bitcoin only cafes, and yet you or the business cant figure out how to pay for a cup of coffee with bitcoin... It’s hard to tell if this is a joke, trolling, manifestation of dystopia/idiocracy. All that’s re
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by will_brown 7y ago
I’m a runner also...depends what you mean by long distances, but I’d promote becoming fat adapted and running in ketosis. I’ve done a full marathon with no fuel (hydration only) in ketosis, pretty awesome and much better than my glucose&#x2

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