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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:52AM (#24207233)
Third, the market is (with exceptions) global. If Google moves its headquarters to Toronto, that doesn’t open up an opportunity for a new American search engine.
Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:50AM (#24207222)
I think he lives in the UK
Well, taxes and accounting for starters.
Re:My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:32AM (#22993421)
I find the time constraint to be a strength (used to do these in college - won some prizes, sometimes didn’t finish in time). It’s a beautiful thing to work on an ambitious thing against a clock, knowing that if you fail you can walk away. The ticking clock forces you to put your ego and perfectionism aside and ask questions of the interesting people around you.
Re:Jewish Nobel Laureates on Saturday October 12, 2013 @12:02AM (#6537210)
A related article was "Muslim nobel laureates". Total:10. I did some quick meaningless math, and found that there's 1 nobel prize winner for every 160 million muslims, and 1 for every 70,000 jews.

I'm not going to try and interpret the data, but I do think that's interesting.

Re:This Guy Unboxed a Calculator. Happy Monday on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:01AM (#6508251)
Let's get this thing Front-page

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