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forthefuture
12y ago
This is much more of a state thing than a country thing. I've never seen a gun in real life (except holstered on a cop), living in New Jersey and New York.
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You will never be able to move forward if the only possible reaction is negativity. That's not a feeling people want to join in on.
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forthefuture
12y ago
The irony is that any company that is legitimately better than their competitors has no choice but to become a monopoly.
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12y ago
I only know about AIG, but the government bailed them out with a 14% interest rate with money they got from China at a 3% interest rate. The bail out was probably the most profitable thing the US government has ever done.
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forthefuture
12y ago
How could anyone trust a company to do this after Coin sold their "preorders" without producing a single working unit?
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forthefuture
12y ago
You don't need to know the seven deadly sins to know anything about types. They could have had 5 or 8 sins having to do with types and the content wouldn't have changed. That's pretty much the definition of unnecessary.
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forthefuture
12y ago
I don't know, the first group of things is wholly physical, and the second group is wholly digital. It's incomparably easier to build things (and rightfully so) that never touch the physical world because you don't have to bu
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12y ago
I don't want to be a wet blanket, but it seems to me that a better business model would be to make sure your entire company isn't operating illegally most places it exists (AirBnB, Uber / Lift).
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forthefuture
12y ago
You're still paid in dollars.
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12y ago
So to even buy bitcoin you have to do with money what you would do on any site to buy anything else. Why would you ever turn your money into bitcoins to do that? It's easy to say now, "oh bitcoin will never work" because it&#
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12y ago
This is especially true for online purchases. Right now the entire ecosystem of Amazon / Paypal with banking services directly linked or through credit / debit cards, works pretty flawlessly. You can buy anything on the internet i