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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Mars colonization is a PR boondoggle and there is no resource constraint on earth. Flying indentured servants and aristocrats to Mars to live in a manufactured community, in a manufactured environment to be closer to far-away minerals, sir
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Pass the pipe, yo! Who would want to live on Mars? Why not build a colony in the middle of a desert with no one but moneyed acquaintances and imported indentured slaves? Oh wait, we already did over in Dubai! Bwahaha Mars colonization is
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Don't forget that other financial product: insurance!
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Fisker is toast, what's the over-under on HN's favorite electric car boondoggle getting pinched? What greenism acolytes don't appreciate is that deflation lowers the price of goods and services--including car and fuel prices! Value is cons
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
What's the unminified size of the editor files and how many files are you down to for a completed page load? Thx!
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Everything is always valued in relation to something else, including bitcoin. USD/BTC is about $120.xx right now, right? Dollars are valued against Euros, barrels of oil, rents and a six pack of beer. The same applies to everything else.
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Dealers only sell new autos to capture the service business, trade-in inventory and manufacturer floor plan financing. In the case of Maserati, servicing costs are inline with Ferrari making it a service cash cow!
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Securitizing tax credits...nothing like going down in maximum Li-flames. Trying to prime the order pipeline. Popcorn plsthx
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Need to harden the tech before you run with the big boys!
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Fact. Don't be surprised when it comes out. 10% haircut for cash into Mexico.
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Would you believe me if I said the DEA was doing the money laundering?
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
They rare.ly last
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
It's easy to engineer a credit expansion--inflation--in the economy when all of the real estate and stocks have been discounted--lost--80%+ off their pre-depression price levels. Bernanke has been trying to create inflation--credit expansio
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
What no one, the bitcoin community included, anticipates is hundreds and thousands of competing cryptocurrencies around the world. For time eternal, government has risen among traders to enforce commercial rules. Currency is like electrical
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
The Secret Service is actually the agency tasked with protecting the dollar. SS is under DHS now.
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Can't even call it a Chinese wall...
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Let's not forget Conde Nast--Advanced Publications--owns Reddit...
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Reddit has minimal barriers to churning accounts to sybil attack the community. It's all too common to hear founders trying to maximize users and accelerate growth before the long-term externalities have been considered or the stack is rea
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Don't hold your breath waiting for legacy media to announce and explain why they are dropping RSS support. Now that GReader is done, they have the PR cover to do it...watch! "The Price of Information The way I view the structure of the new
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Fact 1: Deposits are loans from depositor to bank. Fact 2: Deposits are accounted for as liabilities on the banks' balance sheets. Fact 3: Banks write multiple loans against each dollar deposit; it has a fancy name: fractional reserve banki
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
A lot of the tracking technology is developing from the advertising space, but also to monetize clicks for affiliate commissions. It's the same technology applied to an adjacent market. http://www.viglink.com/ The throughput, latency, co
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
That is legal in Colorado, but I abstain just to be safe!
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
People have control over their individual online use cases and should assume more personal responsibility for managing their online profile. It is voluntary to join the LE email spam network, FB/G privacy invasion operations, disqus commen
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
I know from some of the parties that have shown interest in my company that the highest levels of media are very concerned about being not just marginalized, but trivialized. We have made ZERO deals for, always, one or both of two reasons:
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Well, the US is a Republic and not a democracy. Even in the case of a direct democracy, should we have 50.1% deciding for the 100%? If only it were a trivial game it would be an easy answer! Quoting Jefferson isn't a call to action, but a
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
Regulated campaign finance...who writes the rules? The problem is fundamental to the structure and it is inevitable that, over time, every government becomes tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson made it clear for the ages, "the tree of liberty must
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
It's exciting to see everyone interested in reading news again! It seems many people were taking it for granted.
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How long until the U-Cal system runs a Grupon deal?(finance.yahoo.com)
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Why legacy journalism is dying
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by nwzpaperman 14y ago
XCOM UFO Defense is still the greatest game ever, IMO. The sequels didn't fix anything.

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