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by mikecane 14y ago
shakes fist Ah, you guys, sending me off on a research quest about Sam Zemurray, who I'd never heard of before today! Google Books has an issue of Life magazine with a big profile of him: http://books.google.com/books?id=2EsEAAAAMBAJ&#38
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>pink slime is such a red herring So you think cast-off meat soaked in ammonia is a good thing? No, don't argue any science with me here. There is no way in hell this can be spun into anything good.
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Why Is Microsoft Married To 16:9?(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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>>>What happened to the FDA's mission to protect the consumer? It was basically eviscerated in the 1980s. One example is the increased amount of fat and bone allowed in meats. And did you forget about the infamous pink slime?
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by mikecane 14y ago
A downvote? Should I have capitalized They? As in all those in power who do not want to see alternative currencies succeed and have therefore infiltrated it to see what They can do to stop it? Does that make it better? (Yes, I expect a
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by mikecane 14y ago
This is interesting. But I think it's only test to see how they can actually crash it to zero later on. And if we're voting here in Comments too, yes, let's have the Bitcoin submissions. Hacking a currency is interesting.
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>>>What people have been taught and what people actually do are two different things. Well, we can agree there.
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by mikecane 14y ago
Well, you missed out on a good argument. When I'm annoyed by formatting, I just copy the text into WordPad and read it.
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Geeky Uses Puzzles To Filter and Recruit Smart Engineers in Vietnam(techinasia.com)
1 points by mikecane 14y ago|0 comments
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Yes, I see why you would think that. And it's perhaps because I'm looking at it from a consumer standpoint too.
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by mikecane 14y ago
Wacko? There is nothing he said there that was wacko. If you mean his Tea Party affiliation, I didn't even learn of that until after reading. I think you're letting something other than his argument color your reaction.
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>>>Generally, when people are socking money away their savings account, or reducing their spending in some way, it means they're trying to expose themselves to less risk because they're worried about the future. No. That is tot
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by mikecane 14y ago
One Elon Musk? There are probably more of them than we can count. They just can't rise to the top due to one thing or another. Where would Jobs have been without Wozniak? There are many factors. And I see some people have cited some nam
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by mikecane 14y ago
Then explain to me why Bezos has no problem constantly cutting prices for his cloud services. Why Jobs priced the iPad at $499 for the base model when even he acknowledged the buzz was $999 -- and he might have even gotten that. >>
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Seriously? Then you know nothing about the field.
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>>>Transactions from them can immediately be trusted due to trust in the bank that is sending them. Well that's a bit hilarious to consider since the entire point of alternative currencies is to bypass that clot in the circulato
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>he's not a trained economist so far as I know What? I'm astonished you said that. How many people who have created the companies of today were "trained" to do them. Show me Jeff Bezos' bookselling training. Steve Jobs' de
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by mikecane 14y ago
Something is very wrong in economics. Falling prices increase the standard of living and spread prosperity. This is what built America. I can't help but think this is a con game being played on us when people call it "deflation." If the
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>If you look at my HN submissions over the last half decade Who does that? Does anyone? Don't take an objection personally. It's all about the ideas here.
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>>>Since technological advancement tends to make it easier to produce "things" in real terms, a perfect currency reflects this and makes time preference inherently valuable. This in turn forces the producers of goods and servic
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>>>desperately enough to spend millions on inflating a bubble Millions is pocket change to those who deal with figures in the hundreds of billions.
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>Really? Should we talk about $$$ manipulation? This is the same thing by the same people is my suspicion.
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by mikecane 14y ago
Is it safe for me to express my belief that Bitcoin value is being manipulated by forces who intend to crash it? I've stayed away from it simply because of that. I fear some people are in for a very rude awakening. Don't count your money
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Kabam Woos Japanese Game Makers With $50 Million Fund(blogs.wsj.com)
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>>>This is about living under a constitution guaranteed by law. And what country would that be? It's no longer America, post-9/11. Secret trials, suspension of habeas corpus, search & seizure (Stop & Frisk and TSA), un
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>>>Though Schneier is great for stating the issues and relationships, he tends to avoid proposing any solutions, and also avoids citing any existing attempts towards solutions. That's like criticizing someone who has discovered
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The same "technology" that enables us to develop antibiotics so we can live also creates the biological threats that can massacre us during conflicts. Every knife cuts both ways.
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I had zero idea of what that company was about and only clicked on it out of idle curiosity that it made the front of HN. Seriously, that was one of the most inspirational things I have read. In another thread, someone mentioned the idea of
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Call Fox’s Bluff(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
6 points by mikecane 14y ago|0 comments
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China’s Cube Already Has An iPad 5 Clone(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
1 points by mikecane 14y ago|0 comments

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