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Well not to rock the boat or beat a dead horse here, but it would appear my down voting/flagging privileges have been removed since this post, could they be reinstated?

>The public markets are generally very unforgiving. This is why so many tech companies are choosing to stay private longer. Can you even explain what that means? In my estimation t…

>There is no way where Bird becomes a viable business that grows into its absurd valuation. I was recently chided and reproached by the HN mods for knocking scooter companies (even…

>From a computer science perspective, what should Google do to train its models in a privacy conscious way? Install these devices in the homes of google employees, executives and o…

Because the US doesn’t care about helping people who would take public transportation...instead we prefer VCs funneling money into innovative startups disrupting transportation by …

>Contrast this with acquiring a business name through any Department of State/Division of Corporations. What do you mean by this? Generally if a corporate name is registered (examp…

Here is a suggestion for the strike as well...launch a decentralized anti-libra coin.

I thought about that, and it’s just spit balling something off the cuff, but address to address self-spending may have positive impacts on the network vis-a-vis additional transact…

Maybe Satoshi should have built in such a feature into bitcoin (you don’t use it you lose it). That would have been a much more interesting dynamic (maybe) insofar as the original …

And of course Schlegel diagrams which are commonly used for visualizing four-dimensional polytopes. It’s been over 100 years (very close in time to the publication of flatland) and…

As I mention to a number of other comments...it simply depends on the accounting method. It can be waived (not treated as income at all as you say) or it can be treated as income (…

Sorry I meant “accrual method of accounting” auto corrected to “actual”...looks like you caught my gist.

That’s exactly how it’s done under accrued accounting. And in health care paying taxes on uncollected Billings and carrying the loses forward can make a lot of financial sense.

That’s insurance based healthcare in a nutshell. Insurance doesn’t negotiate just rates but the actual reimbursements. The real fraud is the fact that insurance companies have been…

>The best thing for the doctor is to get paid (and pay taxes on) $400. No...the best thing is for the doctor to not upset the insurance company and get dropped from their network a…

>People complain about 20U$S copays on doctor visits that bill 400U$S to insurance. Well if that’s the case...it’s because the $400 bill isn’t the real cost for the service and ins…

>I don't think these are Google's customers or users. Think about how both yelp and TripAdvisor both built out their websites to comply with Google SEO rules (for organic search) a…

>DuckDuckgo is a minor player, but microsoft's Bing isn't. Bing has 5% market share of search. You also don’t see Microsoft leveraging the 5% market share to create competing busin…

While the small pox/disease ridden blankets may or may not be factual, there is plenty of historical records predating Europeans landing in the Americas of using disease in warfare…

Read harder? Don’t resort to ad hominem attacks because you don’t know or understand the law. Walmart allegedly bribed foreign officials they didn’t try to bribe the “cops” for bri…

>Compare Walmart committing bribery to me attempting to bribe my way out of speeding ticket. But that is how the ticket industry works...you get the ticket, hire a lawyer, the lawy…