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There will never be a shortage of malcontents. The rebellion of the 60s sprung from the prosperity of the 50s.
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>>>We're switching to a world in which the vast majority of the population is useless, economically. There is no reason for them to be alive, no value in it. Then the algorithm is unfit for human use.
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>>>In fact I am wondering at the moment, if this posting needs a stronger disclaimer Don't worry about that. We are discussing strictly economic policies and ideas, not politicians/dictators. Thanks for the reading. EDIT to add
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How many times must I point out that Max Gunther is the pioneer of this thinking? These are required reading for everyone: How to Get Lucky http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Lucky-discovering-ebook/dp/B00... The Luck Factor http://www.amazon
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I was giving this some more thought. Anyone else here familiar with the cast of characters from the book The Predictors ? http://www.amazon.com/Predictors-Maverick-Physicists-Theory-... Is there any possibility of their involvement?
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The most lucrative formulas are never patented. Coca-Cola, for example.
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Let me add to the complexity. What if Silk Road is also gov't? We have had proof of CIA drug-running. And the so-called Drug War is a failure. You don't get failure on that magnitude without gov't complicity, even if it's simple bribery
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>>>One of the first pieces of evidence is typically that those countries that left the gold standard earlier also recovered from the Great Depression earlier. By ramping up production for WWII. Now I'm going to go orthogonal and
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>>>The "target" of btc is an entrenched system of currency used by nearly everyone on earth. Much harder to contain. I wonder if I'm the only person who sees Bitcoin as just as alpha test?
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Even Apple does not enforce Copyright on early versions of Mac software from the early 1980s. What would really be the point? To stop a few people from running it on an Android phone using Mini vMac? What would Apple get out of that exce
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>>>Ultimately, keeping a conspiracy under wraps is an n^2 problem, where n is the number of people behind it. Stuxnet. How long before anyone outside of the group that created/deployed it knew it existed? EDIT to add: I typed t
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I remember that Comment. I upvoted it then and now too.
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From what I understand, this app had 12M users. Is that correct? So for people here to claim it was at all spammy, explain to me why it never had 12M uninstalls and zero users. There must have been value users got from it. EDIT to kill a
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Nook HD+ Has A Secret Menu(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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Anthologies Of Authors In Translation Pulled From ReLIRE(wellpreparedmind.wordpress.com)
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Who Do You Write For? http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/who-do-you-write-f...
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It's the acting talent that costs, if you already know how to do the producing, writing, directing, editing, photography, and music. You could get free talent. People are glad to have something to show they've done something for someone e
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Rumor: Microsoft To Do 7.2-Inch 4:3 Tablet(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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Hmph. I would have thought the first thing people would do after waking from the first sleep is pee.
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Try reading that and imagining it in the voice of the late Jean Shepherd. Priceless.
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Gah. Sometimes I am so twentieth century. I keep forgetting such things can be done via Skype these days. (You can tell I'm not a Skype user, right?)
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Video: iPad Mini Clone Onda V818(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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Were they in person or via email as someone speculated?
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>>>as a user I want to be able to find the best apps for my task. Quality apps. Apps that will help me achieve whatever it is I’m doing. And I want Apple to decide that I stopped reading right there.
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Keep in mind while reading this the takedowns of YouTube videos that just happened to have music playing in the background incidentally to the subject (Baby doing something cute, Mom grabs cellphone while radio is playing a song in the back
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>>>Products using it should be required to say as much though. Yes. But they don't want that, see? They don't want me and everyone else to be able to say No and spoil their payday.
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>>>because if you're going to go with your gut reaction, there's no point in discussing anything with you Well that's how people react, so get used to it. I also reacted that way when I saw "Human Placental Extract" in a list
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"Dynamic pricing" -- does anyone really like that? I've seen reports of online booksellers (no, not Amazon) giving people different prices based on the account they use. No one really likes to feel like a sucker. EDIT to add: Some people
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Thank god Andrew Carnegie didn't live today. He'd have never gotten a job other than his first one: shoving coal into an oven. The same for all of the people who started companies before degrees existed.
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Occupy Wall Street: Staggering Court Victory(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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