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by confiscate 8y ago
It is not a scheme. It is NOT pyramid scheme. NOT Ponzi. Difference of Pyramid vs Ponzi - Ponzi: the fund manager/fraudster is the one who recruits new members - Pyramid: existing members have to recruit other new members In both schem
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by confiscate 8y ago
people LOVE the term "Ponzi scheme", without actually knowing what that term means often, people just use it as a drop-in replacement for the term "organized fraud" example: "isn't JetBlue air-miles just a clas
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PAX, cannabis oil and moderation(techcrunch.com)
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Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping(techcrunch.com)
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Starbucks drops major hint at plans to accept Bitcoin(techcrunch.com)
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Scare off burglars with this ridiculous Alexa skill(techcrunch.com)
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by confiscate 8y ago
Yes I already know that. I was trying to show brightball his comment about "price too high" is ridiculous If $7 / month is too high, then any price below $7 is too high. He should just outright say he wanted it for free, inst
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by confiscate 8y ago
so what's the price where you will sign up right now? if I lower it to $3/user/month, will you sign up right now?
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by confiscate 8y ago
ya, but the game isn't going to launch for another 7 years, so you are worrying about % of revenue that is so far in the future, it might not even happen
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by confiscate 8y ago
does extortion happen regardless? Because the article seems to imply that the miners were mining legally, but where extorted by police anyways
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by confiscate 8y ago
If crypto, being "not controlled by a central authority", solves inflation, surely it would already have replaced the default currency in Venezuela by now? "Authorities have .. permitted trading of bitcoin in Venezuela, thoug
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by confiscate 8y ago
I want crypto to succeed, but I have a hard time seeing the parallel you mentioned. One example benefitted you personally, while the other is a good concept in theory. In your example of the early internet (too slow to load webpage, to stre
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by confiscate 8y ago
What attributes about crypto, makes you feel the same way? i.e. that it is going to be revolutionary Because the example you said about the internet (from loading webpage to video streaming) does sound amazing. What's the "paralle
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by confiscate 8y ago
I don't know what research you are pointing to. But I am pretty sure that if, say, a student can't pass a multiplication test, but you give that student an A+ anyways, and then let that student into a "top calculus class&quot
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by confiscate 8y ago
You intervene when the student is still learning the material, before the test. You do not intervene after the test. At that point the learning process for that material is already over. The student has already "missed out" on the
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by confiscate 8y ago
Agree. If a test contains questions that favor a particular race, then that is an outright problem, and schools should stop that. In this case, it's actually the opposite. When a test is in English, often Asians have to learn English,
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by confiscate 8y ago
If a student is not doing well in school, it makes no sense to just "give" that student a higher grade, for "equality" with the rest of the class. You need to help that student get better, so he/she can achieve the
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by confiscate 8y ago
Test scores are race-blind and fair. Test instructors do not give more scores to a test because they see it was completed by an Asian test-taker. It's great that schools are looking for a better "mix" of ethnicities in the in
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by confiscate 8y ago
That's exactly the point I am making. It has nothing to do with Silicon Valley. The geography is meaningless. The only thing that matters is staying ahead of the curve. It's always going to be hard for GM to do that, because it&#x
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by confiscate 8y ago
then was all the wall street articles 2 months ago, about missing the 2500 production goal, also irrelevant? if meeting the 5000 production goal is irrelevant, then missing the old production goals would be just as irrelevant, right?
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by confiscate 8y ago
Your world view is too narrow. That 5000 figure is important, but it's not really meaningful in the grand scheme of things. There is a 4th or 5th scenario, where 4. other car makers trail behind Tesla more and more in terms of technolo
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by confiscate 8y ago
Wall street analysts are going to start writing articles about how this is a only a "burst week" and "not sustainable", and that the "rational" way of quantitatively analyzing the Tesla says the stock is worth
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by confiscate 8y ago
They are from Siberia "You know, it takes a lot to travel from Siberia"
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by confiscate 8y ago
True. Agree. I did not think of that possibility.
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by confiscate 8y ago
Agree 100%. OP can go to conference, in his/her "own time". OP is an adult and does not need an OK from manager to go to the conference in his/her private life. But, OP cannot expect the manager to give the OK. OP is not
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by confiscate 8y ago
agree. Especially with #3 "understand what boss wants" From the way OP phrased the question, it sounded like the OP felt the manager "owed" the OP. As in, OP feels going to the conference is a must, "a given",
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by confiscate 8y ago
if there is a forest fire and all crops were lost, how would futures help the farmer? Futures let farmer lock-in a sell price for the crops, but without any crops due to the fire, the sell price wouldn't matter
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by confiscate 8y ago
one reason, that is not gambling, is insurance e.g. for farmers, they can predict their harvest 5 months later, but can't know for sure. They can short their own industry stocks. If the harvest goes good, they have crops to eat. If the
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by confiscate 8y ago
what happened in Q2 2013? sorry I did not follow news about Tesla until later
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by confiscate 8y ago
updated the title. Thanks

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