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I imagine a future where the workers are on the Irish side of the border but the servers are on the UK side of the border.

One still enjoys the tax advantages of the value being added on the Irish side, but also the relatively lax data requirements on the British side.

I am not pro or con anything, just pointing out the arb.

Perhaps, but don't take the claim too far. From the article:

"Various claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia's Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists. "

More men are born than women but women live longer on average so the ratio stays around even.

You should try my new course about how to avoid ads for new courses.

The logical conclusion of this trend has already been reached: Adam Neumann only needed 1 true fan.

Not that I am an expert, but like (I assume) most people I put in my time in the dating mines.

And this is my observation about people who have this complaint: the vast majority of couples are aesthetically matched. You might be hoping for a certain aesthetic. You have to match that. The easiest way to do this is to start eating healthy and working out. By working out, I don't mean an occasional job, but the heavy stuff: lifting, crossfit etc. It goes without saying you should not injure yourself.

This small "trick" -- working out -- will have a dramatic effect on your dating life.

But the beneficiaries are, in theory, the people of the state.

In the Obama/Trump drone equivalency case -- or pick another president and some other war -- one might argue that the people are more culpable because we have a democracy. Note that given our vantage point, we might be inclined to make fine distinctions: popular vote vs electoral college, or 52% of the support etc.

I suppose this is worth saying but "the regime" is different people. Complaining about attending the investment conference because of the terrible murder of JK is like complaining that foreigners should not attend US conferences during Obama's drone strikes.

I know -- you have a strong negative reaction to that statement -- because you don't think they are equivalent. Fine, let's talk about the difference.

The best part is it is totally free.

In order to activate the band, you simply imagine yourself buying a product from one of the advertising partners.

This is the offer:

"The beta version of Duple is now available. You can download it and use it for free. However if you’d like to participate in the Duple beta program, and get a lifetime discount as a reward, click here."

But I don't understand what we are paying for going forward. Presumably you pay for the software once. Is there a recurring charge of some sort? What for? If the software is on premise, you can't really turn it off or stop it from working.

Does duple, the company, ever touch the data?

If privacy is the killer feature, it seems that an open source version will ultimately displace this.

WeWork may be billed as a for-profit company but, for all intents and purposes, it is a non-profit.

Then we can introduce some dogs to solve the cat problem...

One huge difference: Dropbox was a mass market product while this is (presumably) for developers who want to iterate fast.

"OMG! Now Aerosmith sang a song about the incident! What is going on?"

And who needs Shopify fulfillment?

Just set up 10-20 warehouses, hire a few hundred workers, train them, get an HR rep, IT, finance, and support, and you're off to the races!

Kids are so lazy these days, with their long hair and their rock'n'roll music.

You can only effectively directly manage so many people. So as you hire more people you need more managers but then you get too many managers to directly manage so you need another level.

Imagine you had 10,000 people working for you. Just saying hi to them would take up all your time. How many people would you say a person effectively directly manages? Some would say 5, others 15. I think the upper level of estimates might be 30-50. (Yes, someone is going to say 200.)

Let’s go with 10 for even numbers. So after you hire 100 people you need a manager for the managers. When you hit 1000 you need another layer. When you hit 10,000 you need yet another layer.

This article will probably single handedly produce several hundred “well, actually” responses on Twitter.

Evolution wasted its time making fish move around, vision, reproduction, gills and so on.

The replacement just has to taste very similar, not hurt animals, be reasonably priced, sustainable to produce and healthy or neutral for health.

Cauliflower bread. Not quite there, but its a great start to a healthier alternative.

Yes! I keep seeing these projects (solar -> BTC, excess energy -> BTC) and I keep running the numbers and running into the same issue.

difficulty inflation

And I never understood why others don't see it too. Glad you found the same issue because I thought I was missing something.

Note: Solar has the same issue you pointed here which is that it only runs part of the time but the difficulty clock is still running.

Also: add in the halving of the reward! That happens in 1 year or so.

edit: updated reward halving estimate

I'm very interested in the first version you wrote.

It just seems like a good example of an MVP. You got the site up in Wordpress fairly quickly, modified it using PHP to your liking (did you have to in order to implement features), and then some python to actually do some work on the back end?

Very unclear, but I think that would be of interest to this audience.

edit: Apparently the rest of his blog is dedicated to this info so in case you are reading this, are as curious as I was, and didn't think to click around:

https://medium.com/@reillychase

Although modern SAT solvers has a ring to it, I wish we would go back to calling them high schoolers.

I think this is why practicing on the actual test (SAT, GMAT, CFA etc) is so much more effective than exercises on particular sections.

I tried to emulate CP/M on my C64 in 2015. I have typed in DIR and I’ll tell you if it worked when it completes execution.

Firstly, the choice is not between a 2% loss or a 40% loss. The choice is between a 2% loss and a 0% loss by buying or selling at the fair market price. Why take a loss if you don't need to?

Secondly, I don't think I agree with your descriptions of the mechanics.

I will quote user @lsc below: "You realize that "money laundering" usually isn't about tax evasion, right? it's about figuring out how to take money gotten from an illegal venture and figuring out how to make that money come from a trackably legitimate source, which means paying taxes on it"

You want to spend the money, which is why you are bringing it into the "white" economy.

Nominal loss is acceptable to many people. If you are worth 10 billion, you might be okay with taking a 1% loss on a million dollar home to just to speed things up. This has nothing to do with it being black or white. You will be just as sensitive or insensitive to losses if you don't need to take them. That is, if you can be patient and get full price, you will do so.

I am not sure what you mean: why take a loss if you don't need to?

You don't mind a loss if that is the only way to launder money but if you can launder money without the loss, then why should you take the loss?

980k would be 2%. But more importantly, why would the person buy a property for more than it was worth just because they're laundering money? They would buy a million dollar house at fair value to launder their money.

Why are you shocked? Is it too high or too low in your estimation?

The US has a similar program (EB5). The investor invests $500k over some period of time and gets back the money. In practice they spend $50k-$100k on a green card plus the opportunity cost of the $500k.

I thought people would comment on this:

>Such a share of transactions is “sufficiently large to have an observable impact on real estate prices,” the report said. It estimated that dirty money pushed B.C. home prices 3.7% to 7.5% higher than they would be in the absence of laundering.

So yes it has an effect, but it is a tiny proportion of the price, something on the order of 5%.

You can read it here: https://news.gov.bc.ca/files/Combatting_Money_Laundering_Rep...

There are many reasons not to continue to be promoted (limited spots at the top being the primary reason).

Sales -> Management is a unique story though. Sales people are often competitive with each other. It would be interesting to know if any managers add value to the sales process or if the value add is more or less random. (i.e. simply not predicted by prior sales or other metrics).