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They may be good at prediction, but who writes their questions? It's probably much easier to reach a successful prediction when a lot of the framing has already been done for them. If you take the Ukraine question, for example, there&#
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Posted not for any particular interest in K-Cups or Coffee, but because the message probably applies to a lot of other areas as well.
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Throwing K-Cups in Glass Houses(marco.org)
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Wasn't PlayBook a QNX release?
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Do they even have a feed? I've been trying to find it on their site, and if they have one it must be pretty well hidden...
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They never said they stopped reading. Maybe you didn't read the parent post :)
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Is there anything about Bitcoin that prevents the existence of fractional reserve? Because otherwise, it's entirely possible for banks to "create debt/credit money through thin air"
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I did not realize there was a limitation on Pennies as legal tender. Good to know. However, your second point agrees with what I was trying to say. The fact that a business does not accept change below a certain amount has nothing to do wit
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by jljljl 13y ago
That is not what legal tender means. Legal tender means that the form of payment is a legally accepted option for extinguishing a debt. If you owed someone a debt of 30,000 British pounds, you could repay that debt with the pennies, and the
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by jljljl 13y ago
_why wrote a very popular guide to Ruby, and was a major figure in the community before mysteriously disappearing, taking a lot of his work with him. He reappeared briefly last year, then disappeared again. http://en.wikipedia.or
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>>> Create page where said asset can be verifiably claimed by Gox customers. Given claims that Mt. Gox has been hacked, and user verification and passports have been stolen, is this step still possible?
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Population adjusted vehicle miles driven has also decreased during that time period: http://www.businessinsider.com/vehicle-miles-driven-2013-2 There's a lot of factors that go into reducing auto accidents, so that cor
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I'm guessing it's Paul Krugman. He wrote a few posts questioning the value and viability of bitcoin, and was mocked for it on a number of bitcoin forums. Krugman post: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman&#
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No. It would not. The court has no right to decide if your religion is legitimate or not. The IRS and the government does recognize certain religious _organizations_ (e.g. churches for tax exemptions), but the state cannot pass any judgemen
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There is no list of "recognized" religions kept anywhere. "Bona Fide" means "honestly or sincerely", and is in there to prevent people who are caught with peyote from insincerely claiming a religious exemption
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Nations are not necessarily tied to land, nor is the sovereignty of the Native nations full sovereignty. I don't understand the full ramifications of the treaty and legal status myself. My point was just to indicate that the flippant r
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>> Only certain religions can use, say, peyote in ceremonies. The relationship between Native American Tribes and the US government is a bit more complicated than you are indicating here. Native American Tribes are afforded an extra d
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Proponents of Bitcoin tend to view the lack of regulation as a feature, not a bug. With that lack of regulation comes higher risk of losing everything in the event of a catastrophe. It's hard to have it both ways.
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WhatsApp’s Founder Goes From Food Stamps to Billionaire(bloomberg.com)
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http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...
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Depends on your particular plan (unlimited text vs. sufficient data), access to Wi-Fi, and how frequently your friends send images or media over iMessage. I have a friend who turned of iMessage to reduce data usage.
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Had to look up Lewis' Law: "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)#Lewis....
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Speculating, but I imagine it has to do with US requirements on financial transaction reporting. Financial institutions and securities traders have certain requirements on which transactions and activity they report. http://en.wi
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Mao and Marx altered the course of nations. Freud and Weiner created fields which have had a major impact on medicine, education, social theory, and technology, and may of those impacts have trickled down into everyday life. You can make an
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It feels a little early to make this call. Dune has influenced a certain vision of the future, but it's influence has been limited to a specific genre of literature and art. It also remains to be seen whether Dune is influential beyond
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I do think it's a fun story. But the lede isn't "Bill Gates Plays Chess with Magnus Carlsen", it isn't even "Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen". It's "Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 mov
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"Bill Gates loses to LeBron James 232 - 0" Not sure what outcome was expected...
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If I've been using 1 Apple ID on my devices for the past ~4 years, how do I create two separate accounts without losing data or access to media? Serious Question.
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It still blows my mind that Google works on exciting, experimental moonshot products that could provide a major benefit in the far future, and all these bloggers can do is whine about the lack of product strategy. In this case, the contact
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by jljljl 13y ago
My point exactly. This forum has already reached its conclusion. Anything other outcome would be unacceptable.

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