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by aggronn 12y ago
This sounds like a rather uninformed view on how Nazi Germany operated. > DAF membership was theoretically voluntary, but any workers in any area of German commerce or industry would have found it hard to get a job without being a member
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by aggronn 12y ago
You could investigate the people in charge of the company and their backers. If you think they have more to gain by draining a small number of peoples bank accounts than they have to lose by committing a federal fraud crime then don't
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by aggronn 12y ago
The S&P 500 is up about 7% annually over the last 5 years, with inflation never exceeding 3% over that period. That leaves a calm 4% real return on one of the less risky investment options.
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by aggronn 12y ago
To emphasize the last paragraph: You don't become rich by obtaining lots of money. You get rich by saving lots of money. You can become financially independent before you turn 40 making $50k/year at a 9-5. You don't need to s
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by aggronn 12y ago
Curious, why not integrate with Rubicon, etc in particular?
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by aggronn 12y ago
From wikipedia: > Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few, such as humans and horses, produce large amounts of sweat in order to cool down. We don't beat them out necessarily because we can replenish
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by aggronn 12y ago
>2 more months and I am done! This attitude is typically a very bad one to have when dieting. Ingesting fewer calories should be sustainable after you've reached your target weight. Anyways, good luck to you in your efforts. If this
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by aggronn 12y ago
...not an economist. He's a blogger.
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by aggronn 12y ago
> I still don't understand how economists can say that BTC has no "intrinsic value," It really annoying to me that people keep putting up this straw man. What economist is saying that BTC has no intrinsic value and is thus
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by aggronn 12y ago
As an example, most web consultancies are not meant to be high growth startup type businesses, but its apparent that many grow to be fairly sizable. There are lots of large botique organizations, for instance companies that specialize in Ro
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by aggronn 12y ago
> Our evidence shows that only one Spotify user’s data has been accessed and this did not include any password, financial or payment information.
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by aggronn 12y ago
Local utility companies and cable companies typically have terrible reputations across the board. I'd rather have competition and bad customer service/experience than no competition and bad customer service/experience.
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by aggronn 12y ago
> That's just ludicrous Is Google above doing bad things? Did you believe that there was collusion over hiring practices what that news broke? Thats ludicrous, but yet there was a class action lawsuit that proved it occured. I compl
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by aggronn 12y ago
I'm just questioning whether its ethical for you to 'quickly nip them in the bid'. Most people reading this discuss have no idea what role Google plays in the day to to day operation of the advertising industry, and I think i
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by aggronn 12y ago
I'm not sure why you think working at Google lends you any credibility in this discussion. To me, your continued discussion here does not help Google's position at all. Are you authorized to act as a spokesperson on Google's
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by aggronn 12y ago
I can't speak for 2009, but by 2012 large publishers definitely had account managers.
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by aggronn 12y ago
The IBT is one of the last powerful private sector unions out there. It has significant lobbying power (its the 11th largest donator to political campaigns in the US), and would join with UPS/Fedex to help resist any outside company th
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by aggronn 13y ago
Isn't this a bit of a mischaracterization? Coinbase is more like an AC'd storage facility with locks on the doors and people on staff checking IDs than an a "dark open lot 2 miles from my house". Yeah, its not Fort Knox,
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by aggronn 13y ago
Grooveshark is available in every country other than Germany and Denmark.
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by aggronn 13y ago
I'm curious what the demand for these kinds of things are in the ad industry. I'm working on a major external reporting intake system/management/analysis platform for the publisher I work for that involves parsing report
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by aggronn 13y ago
Same reason you pay more than the senior price at a movie theater: price discrimination.
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by aggronn 13y ago
You know what I miss for instant support? IRC. It combines with instant gratification of phone calls with the crowd-support of forums or community support portals. IRC obviously isn't mainstream and lacks features that some other syste
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by aggronn 13y ago
If you believe ChromeOS is part of their long term strategy, you have to believe this is. Add-ons for sheets can potentially make sheets truly feature complete compared to excel, which is THE biggest argument against ChromeOS/Windows p
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by aggronn 13y ago
Everything he said is technically true, besides the ponzi scheme jab, which isn't really his main point. Until you pay rent, taxes, and get your paychecks in bitcoin, the bitcoin currency pretty much only exists as a method of payment.
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by aggronn 13y ago
100% of transactions in bitcoin could be for legitimate goods and services, and his point would still stand. Its not a currency if all transactions are being translated to other currencies immediately afterwards. If that were the case, it w
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by aggronn 13y ago
As a grooveshark user who loves last.fm, i don't like this idea.
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by aggronn 13y ago
Why? How would that help last.fm users?
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by aggronn 13y ago
I'm not sure how this relates to my comment. Its not a binary issue of whether a currency can or cannot function on its own. Currencies functioned on their own okay before, and after the Fed, they've arguable done better. Whether
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by aggronn 13y ago
> we have the first evidence (ever) that there is no need for a central authority to conduct oversight and ensure a robust currency. No one has ever doubted that this was possible. 'Robust' currency has existed without a centra
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by aggronn 13y ago
I doubt this actually. Google is a much more visible part of everyone's daily life than Exxon. If Google were more valuable than the sum of the entire petroleum industry, then we would have a problem, but as it stands, demand for Googl

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