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    Comment #17221266

    >"Over 90% of startups die" One of those widely repeated number, but not true: number is below 60%. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/06/2...

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    Comment #17115652

    I agree with that easy statement. But you have to make decisions, even when there is no science at all. What is your estimate of the right control group size should be, for such a …

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    Comment #17114466

    Except if you're in a family with a sick parent and you wonder whether you should encourage more exercise or not. Much more important than bar room banter.

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    Comment #16679371

    I recommend the American Life episode about Alex Zharov, stranded on a desert island in New York City. It really gives a vivid insight on how some people find themselves lucky when…

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    Comment #16638222

    Thought experiment: it may be interesting for a corporation to insert a fairly crazy NCA rule just to see how the applicant reacts. Every now and then there are some crazy stuff ha…

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    Comment #16633014

    "Westminster is at least the fourth college site bought by Chinese interests since 2015." Pretty much one per year. Let's keep looking at it, but probably nowhere as near as foreig…

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    Comment #16375428

    it may be a bit unfair to judge them by looking at today's website, which is not in service anymore, even if they have a home page. "Today, Foundem’s website is the digital equival…

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    Comment #16375404

    in the article maybe? "By now the couple had been joined by numerous other complainants, including Expedia, TripAdvisor and Microsoft"

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    Comment #16249736

    Tim Ferris got to 4 hours per week by working 70+h per week for a long time, then firing his least profitable clients, automating/delegating and giving up about growing his busines…

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    Comment #16230554

    Guilty too, but the writing was the main point to me: "I’m not saying your seat is small, but if it were a haystack, you’d find the needle"

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    Comment #15835275

    >Since 2014, eight other babies have been born to women who had uterus transplants, all in Sweden Just to show that single payer system can be good for medical innovation, not just…

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    Comment #15733935

    This is BtoB, not everything is public info, everything can be negotiated. There must have been discussions between Tesla and Loblaw, where expected final price, or even guaranteed…

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    Comment #15629152

    what's the part that "just" does not work? I am starting a new project soon and I played with Sails. I really liked it, except I struggled with the user authentication part. Also w…

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    Comment #15590396

    Just wanted to say good luck!! I always wanted to start my own thing, thought about many ideas, started a couple just for fun, not full speed, because they were not great ideas. I …

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    Comment #15572747

    it just shows how much inequality there is.

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    Comment #15499385

    Can't speak for the OP, but when you own and run a profitable business that sustain financially your lifestyle and more, your focus is not automatically about growth anymore. As th…

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    Comment #15475554

    Then... who will buy them??

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    Comment #15251606

    Our buckets are there, just we cannot GET content, with error messages about reducing the rate.

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    Comment #15244827

    Gates and Buffet want to raise the capital gain taxes, democrat multimillionaires like B. Sanders and E. Warren are in favor of taxes. That's only for the most famous. There are a …

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    Comment #15199828

    I hope it would not be easy to delete content, but the article shows how much we need to worry about it, when we see how much Taser goes to extra lengths to protect their weapon, a…

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    Comment #15196578

    Now you would think we need more body cams and recorded videos... and guess who is advertising free body cams to all US police officers: Axon/Taser. https://www.axon.com/info/offer…

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    Comment #15176197

    Yes, the prospect of making big money attracts/motivate certain kinds of very smart people. But if your goal in life is to make gazillions of $, why would you want to become a doct…

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    Comment #15175845

    >How much money do you think that will take? Most developed countries pay $3,000 to $4,000 per capita, according to Wikipedia. US pays about $7,400 per capita. So that would be the…

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    Comment #15175177

    I am not sure where is the misunderstanding here. The article talks about marginal tax rate at 91% on the take home pay, not effective tax rate. So I am talking about marginal tax …