LateRuin

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by LateRuin 8y ago
Vice has a good video on drug dealers lining up to use a Bitcoin ATM every day somewhere in an American ghetto. Bitcoin is 100% about drug dealing, gambling, and tax avoidance. You would have to be a total moron to go through all the hoops
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by LateRuin 8y ago
With any WSJ article, just open twitter and copy&paste the title. Any link to WSJ from twitter will get around the paywall -- even tweets from the official WSJ twitter account. here ya go: https://twitter.com/WSJ/st
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by LateRuin 8y ago
Why would Amazon want to inherit UPS's union and pension liabilities? Easier to just start from scratch with the latest tech and zero legacy costs.
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by LateRuin 8y ago
Everyone agrees we are moving towards a world of platforms. Each big platform holder will buy or ally with an isp and smaller content owners will pay 30% rev to use those platforms, just like today with google play store, app store, steam (
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by LateRuin 8y ago
Sounds pro-consumer to me. Whats the big deal? It will just force the other providers to up their game and offer their own freebies.
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by LateRuin 8y ago
How is it somewhat plasubile? Visual differences in a mushroom's biology mean nothing. The fact that mushrooms have the same DNA + RNA structure as all the rest of Earthly life is a dead giveaway that this hypothesis is nonsense.
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by LateRuin 8y ago
>If I tell you how “good” someone’s family or health is, you can tell me if they are a millionaire or not? Yes, I can. That's the point -- the rich and poor are far more visually distinct today. Take for example obesity/overwei
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by LateRuin 9y ago
I was in Turkey during that time, it was noy better for the bast majority of people. Turkey had a per capita gdp <$3k and i vividly recall seeing shoeless people even in the wealthiest areas of Istanbul. Totally changed today, Turkey is
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by LateRuin 9y ago
The majority of jailed journalist are there under anti terrorn laws regarding the PKK. While its not something I support, you have to compare today’s Turkey with yesterday’s Turkey and not with today’s Sweden. It was a crime to even claim t
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by LateRuin 9y ago
What GDP/capita band was turkey at before Erdogan? Answer: $3k (google it yourself) Also, why do you say ‘stuck’? Growth is still rapid despite ~4mil refugees, a war next door, and a difficult geopolitical environment. Europe collectiv
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by LateRuin 9y ago
But are cars more valuable than piles of metal, plus other factors like wages, advertising, factory/office leases, etc. We have a word for this -- net profit.