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> With all due respect, that is nonsense. There is nothing magic about the tax dollars I pay to enforce that they go to the things I use. It's all one big bucket of money.

Yes, it all goes into a big pot of money. That doesn't preclude the fact that infrastructure and services cost money, companies utilise both, that generates additional expenses (due to wear and tear, etc). The rest of society winds up paying for the company's share.

You don't really even attempt to argue why companies shouldn't pay. Unless the "big pot of money" is your argument then in which case I am not following it.

> I agree with your point about tax loopholes being easier for large actors to take advantage of. That seems like a good case for simplifying tax codes, though, not a case for adding even more regulations that rich corporations will inevitably circumvent.

This just reads like a generic libertarian talking point. Currently the regulations/agreements are: "You shouldn't tax companies twice on the same profits." Getting rid of those regulations wouldn't solve tax avoidance, it would just generate other problems (e.g. over-taxation, double-taxation, etc).

Interestingly I cannot imagine libertarians taking too kindly to double-taxation given their views on taxation in general. But that's what international de-regulation would result in...

Your solution is no solution at all. It is just giving up and hoping the problem solves itself. Which is very naive to say the least.
It's an interesting statement but if taken at its face value, we should have all been a lot more worried about December 21st, 2012 and the Mayan Calendar ending.
RE your questions there's one thing I know: non-compete are not enforceable in California. Relax and join a different medical startup if you want.

(I am not a lawyer, so get one to confirm, or get listen to another 10 random folks :))

Unsure about remaining questions:
1) can you do anything to prevent your defamation among recruiters and/or make them pay for it,
2) sign-in bonus tax issues.

But my point was that as far as ethical and personal issues go, I am not on your side. If I was your employer I'd be angry too :)

RE spending time on your own ideas, I think the problem is not strictly time. It's energy. I spend only 40-45 hours a week at work but it's intensive focused time that leaves leave me with barely 15 hours/week of high energy focused time on all of the rest: my hobbies and meaningful time with family combined. In startups there's expectation that you give all of it, not just 40-45 hours.
That sounds awful in every way.
NASA has been developing the Space Launch System (SLS) [1] since the 2010 Authorization Act killed the Constellation program. If it means anything, they're through their Preliminary Design Review and heading towards their Critical Design Review. They expect somewhere between 70 metric tons to 155 metric tons to LEO depending on the version of the design. Whether it will fly, who knows, but they are actually farther along than NASA has gotten on a space vehicle in a while.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
Interesting idea! Though, my guess is few. Many of the "startup-dropouts" probably already have. It sounds like this course doesn't bring any new information to the table, but, rather, is the most concise one can get with 1000 minutes.

As an interesting corollary, Virgil Elings taught an entrepreneurship course at UCSB wherein the first day he assigned the following homework assignment: Drop out and work-for/start-up a company. I didn't take attendance (neither did he, for that matter!), but it seems nobody dropped out.
"Of course few sane people cycle in the bike lane, because its really more of a 'car driver exit' zone."

That depends tremendously on where. Historically, bike lanes were quite often entirely in the "door zone" - or even outright obscured by parked cars. It's still by no means universal, but cities are increasingly painting better bike lanes.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines should really be referenced more often with clickbaity titles like this.
Quote from: http://e145.stanford.edu

> All undergraduate students at Stanford University of any major are encouraged to join us (no graduate students please)

So, enrolment appears to be open to any Stanford undergrad.
OECD: New Rules to Curb Global Tax Avoidance
Judge overturns Uber ride-sharing ban in Germany
"If a large number of individuals or businesses are heavily invested in the-way-things-are, is it ever dangerous to rapidly change the market rules that we've built up- usually for the purposes of consumer protection or fostering businesses that benefit the larger community?"

Drastic and radical changes that happen quickly are probably quite a shock to a lot of business/industries/people. However, we must take care in what "regulation" or "consumer protection" as you call it, we add lest we actually make the subsequent change more drastic and actually harmful(more so than the harm we're trying to prevent by putting the regulation in place).

We're only in this situation because of regulation designed to protect already-invested businesses. At the time it was probably argued that having them fail would be a "dangerous and rapid change", or something to that effect. And the regulation sort of propped up or let the businesses get even more heavily invested into their ideas with no fear of alternative markets etc.

We could argue that if those regulations never got in place, those relatively smallish businesses would have failed at the time. The then owners would have adjusted, started over, or re-tooled their business to fit in.
With a case (that I assume most people will have to protect their precious device), this shouldn't be a big factor at all.
I had two nearly simultaneous thoughts:

1. This is great, throwing it back to government for the people and really should shake up big federal governments.

2. Or maybe not so great, because of number of pitfalls. Getting something like secession right is hard, chances are economies will suffer hard. There will be some superpowers that will never allow this is current political climate such as China, Russia, and potentially India. This will be effectively strengthening their positions. If countries split up into smaller states, while local governance will likely improve, international gridlock will not.
They definitely do - I'm from EE (Poland) and I've worked remotely at a US startup, and now am discussing another remote position in another US startup. As long as you speak decent English and adjust your schedule so that there's decent overlap (ideally, full) with theirs, there's actually little difference between a US contractor and an outsider. Paperwork and taxes aren't any harder from what I've gathered.
Apps that abuse it for ads have 100% immediate furious uninstall rate with me.
Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?

They're doing their part. Are you? Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world. Service guarantees citizenship.
Firefox has a "Responsive Design View" that lets you inspect this easily.
Paul Zimmermann certainly knows that BLAS and Excel use floating-point. I assume that the spoken content of the presentation made the meaning of those slides much clearer; it’s too bad that the slides are being discussed in a vacuum.

Also 1e22 (note: not 10e22) is exactly representable in double (though not in float). Specifically, it is exactly equal to:

1.000011110000110011110000011001001101110101011001001 * 2^73

which requires only a 52 bit significand.
Bikes are supposed to ride "as far to the right as practicable", but this can mean "in the center of the lane" if there is not enough room for cars to safely pass anyway.

Cyclists, meanwhile, should be paying attention, and should let cars pass them when they find they've been impeding traffic.
I wish I could downvote this more. To quote from the Effective Cycling book below:

"cyclists should consider themselves drivers of vehicles in traffic. That means obeying the rules of the road, because when all drivers obey the same rules, they don't have collisions. Forester explains why cyclists should not be afraid to cycle in traffic, and he urges them to resist being shunted off into government-sponsored bike paths as if they were incompetent children."
Really depends on the source of your lard. Good quality stuff doesn't smell bad. Should smell like bacon without the smoke or meat part of the smell.
First off, accept that without spending huge amounts of money to solve this problem, you're always going to have to do some cooking.

For context: I like to cook. I just generally have other demands on my time, and I need a solution for the 6 days out of the week where I just need to fuel my body.

Being a pragmatic sort of person, I understand the importance of health, so I have a few go-to meals that are delicious (so I'm never "not in the mood" for them), which meet my health needs, and are fast to prepare. The less of a picky eater you are, the better off you are. If you take this mindset far enough, you can dump a can of beans into a sauce and have a healthy-ish meal in 5 minutes.

The other thing I do is pre-cooking and storing. I seem to have a talent for making soup (it's like a really mundane superpower), and it's easy to make a ton of soup at once. I'll eat some of it for a meal on the spot, and then store the rest in the freezer. Google around for instructions on this, there are a few surprise gotchas in the process, but all easy stuff.
it should be fixed now.
One meter, pretty standard since I can remember in (many/some parts of) Europe and Canada iirc. This is common sense, who's going to leave less than that gap at speed?
I think the parent's point was that individual income tax is the employee's share of the tax, and that a company can't point to that and say "look, we pay tax through our employees!"

It is fair for everyone who uses the infrastructure to pay for it.

Employees use it, and they pay income tax.
Corporations use it, they should pay tax too, but they can't point to an employee's income tax and claim that contribution as their own.

Edit: Clarification
I am not one of those parents who bases all his decisions on double-blind studies performed at prestigious universities and such.

I raise my children based on my own judgments of what's best for them. And I use my own God-given intelligence and experience to form those judgments.

So no, I will not agree with you. If you do not agree to disagree, then that's your choice. But disagreement doesn't require both parties' content.
Maybe the Y2K hype softened most of those who would react.
Seems surprising that Paul Buchheit is not on the list?

His Startup School Europe talk was amazing, although to be fair it was more "why to start a startup" than how.
Yes, the in person course is only for Stanford undergrads: http://e145.stanford.edu/

Every who is not enrolled at Stanford can access the same material here: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

EDIT: Correct link to CS 183b:

https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&filt...
I have a handle on the amount of space I appreciate as a bicyclist, and that's what I give to other bicyclists. I don't know how many feet it is.

Accurately measuring feet with your eyes is hardly a prerequisite to safe driving. Do you measure your following distance in feet, or time & intuition for your own stopping speed?
I don't think it's the paradox of choice at work. I think instead that the set of file operations happens to permit arbitrary interaction with an object. Specifically, file operations already represent:

* data accesses (read),

* data mutations (write, trunc),

* metadata accesses (readdir, closedir, stat, statfs, readlink),

* metadata mutations (creat, mkdir, link (and symlink), unlink, rmdir),

* interaction contexts (open, close, opendir, closedir),

* namespaces (mount, umount).

I would argue that any object (OS-level or otherwise) can be represented as a filesystem. The advantage of doing so is that the client interface stays the same in all cases. I think it's this constraint on the interface that makes file operations and filesystems so appealing in the long run.
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preferred vs common, participating preferred vs common (i.e. liquidation preference), possible pro-rata rights (thought at this stage further financings are probably unlikely)

disclaimer: I work at greylock, who was an earlier investor, though have _zero_ inside knowledge of the deal as I work on unrelated stuff.
"Betteridge's observation of some headlines that end in question marks"

This "law" fails many tabloid-style headlines, and other obvious cases.

eg.

"Where's the money?" (headline about corruption involving tax-payer money)

"Is Betteridge's Law of headlines ever worth invoking?"

"Manchester United: Will they ever return to form?"
I didn't actually find the article that reassuring. It boiled down to "it's unlikely to evolve true airborne transmission because it doesn't need to bother, it's plenty infectious through another route already."
Regarding to your question, I have no specific demographic target, just general Front-end developers that are willing to learn, help or give feedback, it has only two weeks I have nothing specified yet about demographics.
Infinite ROI: stop having sex.
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Power from the people: what privatisation has meant for Britain
I wouldn't use Node for everything. I use Python more often, and also use some C#. I'd like to do more Clojure.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I would point out that there's a difference between knowing how much space there is relative to the likely movement of either vehicle (which is what's important for safety) and knowing how much space there is relative to a yardstick.
London's insane house prices are holding back the UK
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This drug is absolutely awful.

I had an abscessed wisdom tooth and was prescribed Tramadol for pain management while I waited for an appointment to get teeth extracted.

Not only did I feel like shit all the time, when I tried to stop taking it, I couldn't sleep at all. It was entire nights of frustration, tossing and turning. I was only taking 100mg a day to just get through work and whatnot too.

I decided to do some research and I read about people taking upwards of 700mg to 1000mg a day because of addiction. I can't imagine being addicted to this drug. It makes you feel foggy, your throat burns, you have headaches...

I've been sober for most of my life. I've never drank or taken prescriptions recreationally. So this experience was pretty terrible.
7 reasons Apple should open-source Swift – and 7 reasons it won't
IANAL, and this is my 2 cents. Get a good labor lawyer.

1. Did your sign-on bonus state that you had to stay a certain time to keep it. If not, don't give it back. They are hostile (and have already taken hostile actions) and haven't earned consideration. Any payment from you should come with them signing an onerous agreement.

2. If you have to give it back by contractual obligation, then pay the whole amount. You get the tax that was withheld by the IRS when you file. If cash is an issue, tell them you'll send the rest when it's refunded.

3. If they do anything to hurt you, you will be able to sue them for damages. Don't retaliate by naming/shaming/defaming them. Collect as much evidence as possible about whatever they decide to do and just have a lawyer write a letter. Say little to nothing publicly.

4. They are within their rights not to give you a good recommendation. You should not refer anyone to them.

5. I strongly doubt anyone will care what they have to say about you.

6. CA has employee-friendly non-compete. You can't use their secret information, but you can work for a competitor.

7. Quitting after receiving a performance bonus is so commonplace that it's boring. The entire NYC financial and legal industry basically plans their annual personnel strategy around it.
> We tend to keep it underneath, showing only our fully professional face: “I don’t play computer games” they say...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

I am 45, play video games, watch TV (its all lame), and everyone in the office knows it - because they do too.

I don't know if its still the case, but a decade or so ago, recruiters used to lament the lack of "well rounded" applicants in tech. People who only do tech often have trouble communicating with their peers in other parts of the business, and therefore are less productive then their skills would otherwise imply.

Other interests, be they practical or impractical, are valuable.
I actually find the first part of the decision's discussion on standing fairly persuasive:

"Motor vehicle dealership" is a term defined in c. 93B as: "any person who, in the ordinary course of its business, is engaged in the business of selling new motor vehicles to consumers or other end users pursuant to a franchise agreement and who has obtained a class 1 license pursuant to the provisions of [G. L. c. 140, §§ 58 & 59]"

Because neither Tesla nor Tesla MA is engaged in the business of selling new Tesla motor vehicles in Massachusetts "pursuant to a franchise agreement," there appears to be a question whether Tesla's business model involves the operation of a "motor
vehicle dealership" ... and therefore whether, by its literal terms, the proscription of
§ 4 (c) (10) applies to the defendants at all.

I suppose that if Ford set up "showrooms" in the Natick Mall and tried to claim they weren't "franchises", the Court would consider reading the definition more broadly, but I'd rather any Court read statutes as being as minimally intrusive as possible: No franchise agreement? No problem.
Lo-dash is a good place to start: http://lodash.com/
And just because of that (i.e. making it available online) I cannot even begin to describe just how much good this might do in the world.

I could expand this sentiment to every teacher or lecturer who has chosen to put their video online, especially the great ones. They have done a great service to the world (probably beyond what they may themselves realize).

I recently met an undergrad student in India who considered Steve Huffman to be his guru (he was a fan of his Udacity course, and so am I, btw) and swears by everything Steve taught him. And, Steve probably does not even know that he has a fan following in a small town in India :)
That's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Full stop. Not exaggerating in the slightest.

Pedestrians and cyclists are perfectly capable of breaking laws and are most certainly capable of being at fault in an accident with a motorist.
Maybe you could find some like-minded friends and cook for each other a few nights a week. I did this a lot in college. We'd go grocery shopping together, then either cook together or take turns cooking for each other. I find that it's far more fulfilling to cook for someone else than to cook for just yourself, and it helps to spread the costs (and the leftovers).
I know this is ( hopefully ) not a common occurrence, but let me tell you something that I recently witnessed.

I was driving on back-roads to my parents house, and it's not uncommon to see bikes on these roads since they are pretty good biking roads as I understand it. The difference is that these bikes were riding 4 wide on a single lane road, and they had a car in front of them driving between 15-20mph with their hazard lights on, presumably in an attempt to keep cars from passing them.

How is this not "owning" the lane? That was not the first time I've seen this happen either. Bikers also need to understand that this behavior is not reasonable.
Are meteor sites typically slow? The only ones I've visited are.
Honestly this is like having "The Justice League" give a course about "How to be a Superhero". Congratulations to the team that has put this together. Best round up of speakers in any startup course that I can remember.

This is great news for the community.
Wow, that's awful. Shouldn't this stuff have an expiry timer by default? :(
Maybe my google skills aren't as good as others, but can you tell me in what way p4 handles binary files better than git?

I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm seriously curious.
Thanks! That particular comment seemed really out of line. I just took a deep breath and left the room.
I think your mirror will survive the shock of such a harrowing maneuver for the seconds it takes to pass a bicyclist.
One of the most symmetrical celestial objects ever discovered
Yep, Liferea after I got irritated with some inconveniences with Thunderbird
Great article. Isn't it obviously that Ebola or any other deadly virus is unlikely to become highly contagious via air simply because we don't see mass airbourn infections very often. (Do we ever see them?) If such mutations were likely, then we would see them. Massive plagues, wiping out something like %50 of the population would be common. There have been mass plagues in history of course, however, they are somewhat rare and often the result of poor sanitation. That's not as much of a problem in the modern world, although the third world still struggles with it. Worse yet, if airborn mutations were likely, then we would probably not see them at all, because evolution would not have brought about highly complex creatures. We would always get killed off by disease before making that far.
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(a) Often the pavement at the very edge of road is rough, has debris, or is otherwise unsuitable for riding on, and you can't necessarily even see that from your car. Furthermore, riding at the very edge of the road encourages some drivers to pass when there's not actually room enough to do it safely.

(b) Do you think it's safe to pass a cyclist on a section of road that narrow?
DMA is the likely direction we will see in FreeBSD 11: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-Feb...

If you want/need a full mail server, you get your pick from ports.
So why are these companies in your portfolio in the first place?
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Minimal example: LaTeX embedding as practiced on the web doesn't reflow. TeX was intended for documents that knew their width, height, margins and etc.; no guarantees in a web page.
Who really owns that government data?
> (in a specific style)

Note that the style is what's irksome about the original comment, not the opinion. When you talk about the value of the opinion, and gloss over the style like this, I feel like you're failing to understand why people disliked your post.
I must admit that I am rather surprised of the amount if international attention that the referendum here is getting - Scotland is a small, relatively unimportant (i.e. we're not London) part of the UK which is itself a relatively minor economic and military power.

Given the stream of world political and business leaders who have felt the need to pass comment (inevitably in favour of the "No" campaign) I really do wonder what is going on.

[NB OK OK I shouldn't have said "minor economic power" and the UK has superb (but horribly equipped and under-funded) armed forces].
Better to spend money than hoard it...
That's a failing business model, and I suspect you know it.
Only if you value things very differently than most people, I believe. For most people, foregoing romantic relationships seems to be a pretty steep cost.