gotorazor

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by gotorazor 4y ago
A lot of this guy's stuff reminds me of the white Marxist-Leonists I met in college. Except, those guys were at least somewhat serious when you talk to them. I don't know how this guy grift his way to notoriety and influence. It s
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Bell Canada or Telus? 2nd most massive landmass.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Oh yes! I do remember doing this as well at Decathlon.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
RFID We have the tech to do this. They library system where I am put RFID tags in all the books. You put the all books you want in a special tray at checkout. (There is still a checkout counter with a machine.) The computer will instantly d
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by gotorazor 4y ago
I have been looking for an alternative for Apple News. If this is true, then it would be worth looking at.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
> My preference would be for the government to not intervene with regulatory regimentation of the token sale market, but that obvious frauds - where a team promises the moon and then uses the money raised to buy themselves lamborghinis -
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by gotorazor 4y ago
That's exactly how airline tickets work. You can't board a plane if the ticketed name don't match your ID name in full.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
I think that's the part why your story didn't make any sense to me. I am not questioning its truthfulness. Just, why? Why even go thru the hassle of using bitcoins? You could just exchange it with the guy on the street for pesos.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
I am a bit dense. How does hyperinflation, an artifical peg, and exchange restrictions allow USD currency reserves (presumably held by the government) to flow to those who has freely accessible USD exchange (the patron of the ruling class)?
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by gotorazor 4y ago
but that's exactly what this is. It is money laundering. It just maybe didn't come from cartels and drug trade.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Considering that Iceland has a population of less than 400k, more than doubling the population over a 12-month period in the cold would be a death sentence not just the the country, but for all the new immigrants that are moving there.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
GE hasn't really been doing fine since the great Recession. The GE of the mid-2000's was a behemoth. If I have to guess and adjusted for inflation, GE hasn't been this poor since the mid-80's.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Great story. I had a similar one with my French uncle. Home Depot blew his mind.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
I think that guy's point was that it isn't cheaper to eat junk than to eat "good and healthy" food. I think that this is big distinction between USA/Canada.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
> Greens, veggies, decent fruits, meat, fish Potatoes are cheap because we have an industrial supply-chain for potatoes that developed and grew for a hundred years. This is linked to the whole "Anglo-Irish" thing. Potatoes are
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by gotorazor 4y ago
communist
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Have you gotten your Redwings resoled? Assuming you live in a 1st world country, how much did that cost? How much did you pay for the pair of Redwings? Goodyear welted soles are expensive. You can buy 6 pairs of workboots from Walmart or hi
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by gotorazor 4y ago
As a kid from that era, I disagree. > To me, a classic car from the 80s, or even early 90s is a far nicer vehicle to be in and drive, and provides a far better subjective experience, both in and out of the car, so in a sense, modern cars
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Except that, materially, those in the "USA sphere" -- even those with pro-US dictators forced upon them -- are better off comparatively than their neighbours or a comparable country. Just to look at the countries you listed and th
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Just did a trip to Loblaws in Toronto yesterday. I disagree. Organic groceries -- sure -- median income people can't really afford it. The traditional, raw items common to the Anglo-Irish diet like potatoes, corn, flour, butter, cabbag
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Ipad or ChromeOS?
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by gotorazor 4y ago
This is not a helpful comment to the OP's question.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
There has been multiple articles written in many major newspapers about the issue. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/southwest-airline... From what I have read so far, it seems like SWA uses a h
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Movements and attitudes are not like concepts and inventions. I think you hit upon the problem of "periodization". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Well, no. Those two things go hand-in-hand. Even tho "unemployment" is a percentage, increasing the denominator doesn't mean that you're holding the numerator steady. If anything, you are probably holding the total numb
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Unless you know and are practised at shorthand, most people type much much faster than they write by longhand --- even a fairly slow typist can do about 30-40 wpm vs writing is something like 30-40 characters per minute. https://
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by gotorazor 4y ago
Fractional reserve banking -- from my economics class -- the difference is that the government or/and an independent central bank acts as a backstop.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
I think it is normal to setup a new board after an acquisition -- usually with all the people that help finance the deal and maybe an independent director or 2. A "sole director" in a multi-billion dollar company is strange.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
If an autocratic country isn't doing well, how would you know? Who would loudly say anything? Please also note that many forms of non-democratic government. Some work better than others.
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by gotorazor 4y ago
If you look at even absolutist monarchs in Europe, they have constituents (lobbying groups) they have to listen to, the peasants and townfolks to appease, the nobility to seek support from, powerful breakaway independent Lords to manage, po

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