martinpannier

Credits like these don't necessarily affect the actual money flowing into social security—social security is just used as a "taxation basis" in this case. That being said, that is a hypothesis—I'd have to look at the precise funding plan.

We're only enabling those startups that already qualify for the R&D tax credit to much more easily, and cheaply, claim it. We've seen accountants charge customers up to 25% of the credit obtained, and we think we can help.

No, unfortunately you can't.

2 things are new:

- Before, you could only offset your corporate income taxes, so you couldn't claim the credit if you weren't profitable (because you wouldn't have corporate income taxes). Now, you can offset social security taxes, which are based on payroll. So more startups can now benefit from this credit.

- Gusto has rolled out an new tool that allows their customers to much more easily claim their R&D tax credit, taking on much of the grunt work.

Disclaimer (?): I'm a PM on Gusto's payroll team

Google's answer to Facebook Messenger… I'm surprised, I would've expected that they start out in this category by buying WhatsApp.

Interesting idea. Would love to know how you guys will tackle the tl;dr generation issue—how to incentivize people to contribute, etc.

This is definitely a very interesting space. We ARE moving towards bite-sized pieces of information anyways, and you guys seem to be riding on this trend.

Best of luck, and looking forward to how this will turn out!

Thanks guys. Will post the list soon. Stay tuned!

The micro-level counter-examples you provide for macro-level mechanisms simply don't work.

If you consider your first example at a market level, people that are better compensated are more valuable—because they create more value (the discussion is—of course—not around one's value as a human being). The only reason for imperfection in this regard is market friction—which there is a lot of, in every market. But the market value tends very quickly towards the real value if the market is liquid enough.

In a liquid equity market (stock exchanges for example), the price of the stock you buy is its current value. However, you are making a bet on the future value gains of the company. Buying stock for its current value is investing; anything else is speculation.

I wouldn't have suspected the Kindle touch screen to be sensitive enough for this kind of technology.

I also didn't suspect that there was a whole category of Kindle content I had never heard of.

Now I feel stupid.

You're absolutely right! Will add ASAP