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If your cofounder isn’t full time, that’s not your cofounder. That’s a part time contractor who owns 50% of your company.

My point is just that the words this guy is using have commonly-accepted meanings and he’s using them wrong.

No it wouldn’t. That makes no sense. You have no idea what “excludable” and “rivalrous” mean. Please read a few Wikipedia articles.

Healthcare is not a public good. It is both excludable and rivalrous. In fact, it is the exact opposite of a public good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)

If you have any questions, please reach out to yaacov[at]commenda[dot]io

Finally a question about my area of expertise!! I’m the CTO of commenda.io. We help Indian startups get set up with RBI-compliant, venture-ready Delaware c-corps. There are 2 reaso…

It’s okay, neither can the people posting

> Too often despots and their cronies get countries into economic trouble, countries that have been taken advantaged by Western interests for hundreds of years. Agreed. > When the …

IMF/World Bank stuff actually works, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_I... as an example. “Trying things” is good, but more countries should try IMF r…

Requirements change. I’ve seen 10+ year old proto files at google still being used by services that are still being actively developed. Over those ten years your data model has evo…

Well if there’s a guy who’s sitting alone in his room all day playing games on his own how would you get to know him?

the richest people in america got that way by creating enormous amounts of value and then capturing lots of it for themselves. the richest people in russia got that way by plunderi…

You’re misunderstanding the paper. This is not the number of people who can correctly define the word, it’s the number of people who can correctly recognize that it is actually a w…

It’s getting clearer and clearer that these viruses are extremely bad, see for example https://denovo.substack.com/p/epstein-barr-virus-more-maladi...

One of the most interesting parts of Lee Kuan Yew’s book for me was when he talked about all the critics he sued for libel. He justified it as “of course I sued them for libel, oth…

> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers. 10 years of a free product is not bad

Guessing it’s a fake post for reddit karma

it’s been 10 years, do we know how that’s affected the quality of education there?

False Morels (Gyromitra esculenta) can have toxic amounts of hydrazine, it is usually safe WHEN COOKED but a couple people have died from them.

you may want to look into Wave Senegal, i have heard very good things

Governments already do this! My brother goes to a school only a few miles from NYU that’s totally paid for by NY city+state government. I think he pays a couple hundred dollars per…

Georgism makes a distinction between Capital (value produced by labor) and Land (value that existed before humans showed up). Rewarding owners of capital incentives people to make …

Can’t comment on most of your post but I know a lot of Amazon engineers who think of the CoE process (Correction of Error, what other companies would call a postmortem) as punitive…