yaacov

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by yaacov 1y ago
If your cofounder isn’t full time, that’s not your cofounder. That’s a part time contractor who owns 50% of your company.
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by yaacov 3y ago
My point is just that the words this guy is using have commonly-accepted meanings and he’s using them wrong.
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by yaacov 3y ago
No it wouldn’t. That makes no sense. You have no idea what “excludable” and “rivalrous” mean. Please read a few Wikipedia articles.
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by yaacov 3y ago
Healthcare is not a public good. It is both excludable and rivalrous. In fact, it is the exact opposite of a public good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)
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by yaacov 3y ago
If you have any questions, please reach out to yaacov[at]commenda[dot]io
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by yaacov 3y ago
Finally a question about my area of expertise!! I’m the CTO of commenda.io. We help Indian startups get set up with RBI-compliant, venture-ready Delaware c-corps. There are 2 reasons why Indian corporations like to incorporate in the US: 1:
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by yaacov 3y ago
It’s okay, neither can the people posting
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by yaacov 4y ago
> Too often despots and their cronies get countries into economic trouble, countries that have been taken advantaged by Western interests for hundreds of years. Agreed. > When the country collapses, the IMF and World Bank subjugate th
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by yaacov 4y ago
IMF/World Bank stuff actually works, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_I... as an example. “Trying things” is good, but more countries should try IMF reforms like India’s. > From 1
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by yaacov 4y ago
Requirements change. I’ve seen 10+ year old proto files at google still being used by services that are still being actively developed. Over those ten years your data model has evolved. Your first client, the one whose data model you were i
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by yaacov 4y ago
Well if there’s a guy who’s sitting alone in his room all day playing games on his own how would you get to know him?
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by yaacov 5y ago
the richest people in america got that way by creating enormous amounts of value and then capturing lots of it for themselves. the richest people in russia got that way by plundering the country of its natural resources and the remnants of
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by yaacov 5y ago
You’re misunderstanding the paper. This is not the number of people who can correctly define the word, it’s the number of people who can correctly recognize that it is actually a word.
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by yaacov 5y ago
It’s getting clearer and clearer that these viruses are extremely bad, see for example https://denovo.substack.com/p/epstein-barr-virus-more-maladi...
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by yaacov 5y ago
One of the most interesting parts of Lee Kuan Yew’s book for me was when he talked about all the critics he sued for libel. He justified it as “of course I sued them for libel, otherwise why would anyone believe me when I said they were lyi
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by yaacov 5y ago
> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers. 10 years of a free product is not bad
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by yaacov 5y ago
Guessing it’s a fake post for reddit karma
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by yaacov 5y ago
it’s been 10 years, do we know how that’s affected the quality of education there?
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by yaacov 5y ago
False Morels (Gyromitra esculenta) can have toxic amounts of hydrazine, it is usually safe WHEN COOKED but a couple people have died from them.
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by yaacov 5y ago
you may want to look into Wave Senegal, i have heard very good things
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by yaacov 5y ago
Governments already do this! My brother goes to a school only a few miles from NYU that’s totally paid for by NY city+state government. I think he pays a couple hundred dollars per semester. But students choose NYU over those schools…
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by yaacov 5y ago
Georgism makes a distinction between Capital (value produced by labor) and Land (value that existed before humans showed up). Rewarding owners of capital incentives people to make more, but rewarding owners of land benefits nobody other tha
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by yaacov 5y ago
Can’t comment on most of your post but I know a lot of Amazon engineers who think of the CoE process (Correction of Error, what other companies would call a postmortem) as punitive
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by yaacov 5y ago
That’s correct, pictures of human remains are allowed. I was referring to the museum situation. Many religious Kohanim would avoid going to a mummy exhibit.
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by yaacov 5y ago
Some people avoid human remains for religious reasons too. Religious Jews who are Kohanim for example.
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by yaacov 5y ago
She should slow down and get better at picking cost-effective charities
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by yaacov 5y ago
You might enjoy reading about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export-oriented_industrializ...
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by yaacov 5y ago
Blaming individuals doesn’t help, it’s a coordination problem. If any one MBA refuses to outsource they’ll just be outcompetes by someone who does. This is the sort of problem that requires a government to solve
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by yaacov 5y ago
A lot of my friends work at Amazon. The situation this engineer was thrown into sounds worse than average but I have heard similar stories. Amazon usually takes 3 months or so to fire people for real or imagined “poor performance”, so this
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by yaacov 5y ago
Why not just aim for 2% inflation like normal?

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