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Great article on a timely topic. The only point I think Nilay didn’t fully address is the specific impact on Amazon Marketplace. Amazon often takes half or more of the revenue from…

once they all turn 30- he's a dead man.

Great stuff. Yeah it's as I suspected CA collects more from property tax per capita than TX, NY more than both. CA and NY both have very high income taxes that augment schools so i…

Has anyone done a comparison of how much California collects per capita in tax revenue from property tax versus other states like New York and Texas? For example, in NY they used a…

If you increase regulation so the time and cost to build a nuclear plant is impossible...then yeah everything else is way cheaper. Not exactly brkeaking news.

MSFT doesn't have a fiduciary duty or a duty of care like a director does. They are shareholders.

If Sprint had gone bankrupt you would have had the same effect- the assets including licenses sold to Tmobile. That said, I don't think Sprint would have gone bankrupt but it def w…

Going from 4 large competitors to 3 has obviously hurt completion and led to higher prices. Americans tend to pay a lot more for their cell service- especially single lines than ot…

Fair use is how cos like Google got started in the first place. AI is similarly dependent on sucking up vast quantities of information, with a light touch of course, and use that t…

I wish we had trains just like Japan and Europe have, but we don't have geography or population density like Japan or Europe has. We have surmountable problems in regulation that d…

The article there looks at ONE use of technical analysis which is a moving average crossover. The nicest houses I know are owned by traders who know how to use technical analysis. …

Why not a similarly brave stance in China? In China Apple claims it "obeys all local laws" except in the UK it wants to be courageous? I guess it's a brave state unless the $$$ are…

Are they keeping their headquarters in downtown SF? It has not been used for a while and fairly nice

Solid response.

Google owns 90%+ of search, Android, and the Ad side. The three together allow it to crush competitors from both ends all while taking a 35% cut. The most lucrative part of the ad …

Imports into Russia have dropped by over half. meaning they can't use their currency to buy anything. And they import pretty much everything except food and natural resources. Any …

Merkel wanted a pipeline that just happened to terminate in her district you forget to mention. She may have a physics degree but she is a politician and I have a feeling she used …

First of all, the most dangerous word in the world is "safe"- there is no such thing. It's an illusion. You are not safe, you will get sick and die one day. We all will. Also, peop…

Don't you need to get access to the lab first tho?

No the advice is still spot on- acquihires are considered the firesafe scenario he is referring to.

The term for this is public markets is "front running".

We've built a QR Code and Barcode Scanner that is fully privacy compliant. It focuses on product search and providing local and online prices but the QR code Scanning is incredibly…

Aside from the problem that Wealth Taxes have been tried multiple times in many countries and failed, or the fact that enforcement would be more expensive than the revenue collecte…