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borism
16y ago
anyone planning/doing a start-up in Mauritius?
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16y ago
Italy? The "I" in PIIGS?
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16y ago
Tallinn, Estonia Monthly expenses - basic stuff like food, shelter and public transportation shouldn't exceed $1000 per person. But it's inflating twice the speed of EU. Average monthly wage for a programmer was last reported to be $2600, b
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borism
16y ago
>1. The earth is getting colder, not warmer, while CO2 levels continue to rise. evidence? why are Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Antarctica and mountain glaciers losing so much ice all at the same time?
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16y ago
>Money has a great deal of importance to a scientist wishing to study forests and natural, untouched wilderness. It has even more importance to a scientist who wants to build a supercomputer to simulate (over)simplified models of the a
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borism
16y ago
yes it is
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borism
16y ago
stitching? http://hugin.sourceforge.net
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borism
16y ago
easy: controls and indicators are used only when it's required :)
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borism
16y ago
> The insurance company, just like today. Possibly paid for by the manufacturer and entirely included in the sales price, or possibly paid for by the driver/owner like today. duh, of course! The question is - at what premium? Because
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borism
16y ago
Which retail brokers charge more for using stop limit? Never seen one that does.
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borism
16y ago
I'm glad that you found yourself vindicated and will refrain from interfering with your righteousness.
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16y ago
I dunno what your comment has to do with anything other than getting upvotes, which I'm sure you'll get plenty of. My comment was more geared towards pointing out the obvious incompatibility of US based porn capitalist and Libyan Arab Socia
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16y ago
the lift comes from pressure differential between "top" and "bottom" surface of the wing - that's the definition used by professionals in the field. Here's why definition about deflection of the air is generally not accepted: http://en.wik
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16y ago
It's not simply Libya. This country's full name is Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
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16y ago
It seems to me it's you who got things wrong. Explanation about wing forcing air down is very VERY wrong.
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16y ago
Again, you're thinking of retail investors being like herd of stupid sheep. First of all, very elitist from you (even though I suppose you're one of them too). And second, actually not true. As I said, no (or almost no if you like) retail i
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16y ago
Now I'm confused. How is expecting return on risky investment being very close to return on risk-less investment is not risk-averse?
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16y ago
It helps to shorten the gap between "West" and "East" freedoms or lack thereof. Anyway, I absolutely agree that Arab peninsula states still have some horrific human rights issues to deal with, especially when it comes to foreign and espec
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borism
16y ago
spy? now where did anyone suggest that? I think you're trying to guess too much into what other people think. Maybe you should concentrate more on known facts and analyze whether anything interesting can be obtained trough piecing them toge
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16y ago
Stop bullshitting. We are not slaves of the Market, we shouldn't give it any information, it should give us information. That's the utility of the market you know. When the game becomes "who has the fastest program to rip off this stupid ri
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16y ago
Nobody said people placed simple STOP orders. I think it's pretty obvious to even n00biest of the traders and investors that in such volatile markets as we had in last couple of years you should use STOP LIMIT. So all those people that want
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16y ago
I don't see him suggesting he was on the hijackers' side. As to Mossad, considering he was Sayeret Matkal officer it's not that far fetched. It's not that big of a difference anyway.
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16y ago
If said organisations keep sensitive information in Akamai, then... oh well...
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16y ago
> Even the most moderate islamic countries are still way behind modern countries on the status of women, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, and other such democratic values. I wouldn't say countries like U
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16y ago
How often does that actually happen? I can't think of any examples. Most start-ups hardly live full 4 year vesting period either failing or being acquired.
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16y ago
Perhaps you should educate yourself about moderate islamic countries?
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borism
16y ago
since when tech guy gets more than business guy? (to all the downvoters: I'm genuinely interested)
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borism
16y ago
no seriously, what part of Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya you didn't get?
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16y ago
any evidence?
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16y ago
of course Libya is a mythical country behind mountains higher than Himalayas and has no diplomatic missions anywhere in the world nor are it's officials able to travel let alone Google "violet blue".
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