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pfisch
9y ago
I'm the owner.
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pfisch
9y ago
I have all the computers in our office mining crypto when we leave for the day. It is pretty easy to setup.
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9y ago
You have to take risks owning a business. Even when your business is big you have to do scary, risky things. Making almost any product or expanding your business involves large upfront costs and then hoping it is profitable. When you look
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9y ago
Is that really so different from them just sending you into an infinite bureaucracy loop where they refer you to each other in a wide circle until you give up.
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pfisch
9y ago
If you are crippled by fear owning your own business is probably a terrible idea.
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9y ago
Quit your job. Make it real. Fear is one of the best motivators. Unfortunately this is bad advice for most people, because the truth is most people don't have the full skillset required to own a business. Maybe they could learn it i
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pfisch
9y ago
Then just don't get a student loan at all. Just get a regular loan.
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9y ago
If you just graduated from college with no money and debt how could you have a house? Also that is currently how bankruptcy works anyway. >Personal bankruptcy could result in 2-3 years of handing over most of your income to the state (w
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pfisch
9y ago
> I meant what I said in the /government/ providing a market baseline. This is not a single payer system. I don't understand what you are saying.
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9y ago
Why would you extend a massive loan to someone who is broke, has no credit, and can immediately discharge the debt. They could and many of them would immediately discharge the entire balance of the loan upon graduation by declaring bankrupt
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9y ago
I'm saying why would you extend a massive loan to someone who is broke, has no credit, and can immediately discharge the debt. They could and many of them would immediately discharge the entire balance of the loan upon graduation by d
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9y ago
> Allow all kinds of debt to be discharged via bankrupcy Credit would dry up overnight and interest rates would go through the roof on many loans. Also why would anyone ever offer a student loan under these conditions? >'Single P
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Historically most attempts to engineer society through force of law have had disastrous side effects, and have led to some of the most deadly atrocities in history. Communism is all about engineering society. The Great Leap forward is prob
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9y ago
So if my employee is advocating murdering me and my entire family that is cool? I have to fund someone who is actively trying to get political support to put me in a concentration camp?
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9y ago
How am I getting downvotes for not wanting to help fund white supremacy? Who are the readers of this site?
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pfisch
9y ago
This is sort of ridiculous. You don't have to keep someone on your payroll who is actively speaking out about white supremacy. There should be social consequences for your speech, just not legal ones.
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pfisch
9y ago
So we are about to have net neutrality repealed over the objection of everyone except ISPs basically. Medicare isn't even allowed to negotiate drug prices, but our govt run single payer system will definitely be immune from regulatory
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9y ago
So we are about to have net neutrality repealed over the objection of everyone except ISPs basically. Medicare isn't even allowed to negotiate drug prices, but our govt run single payer system will definitely be immune from regulatory
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9y ago
If that happens it will be the worst disaster in the history of humanity. Like 20x worse than Mao's great leap forward.
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9y ago
This doesn't seem like a reasonable worry really. We will continue to innovate at a more rapid pace until we have real AI or there is a massive disaster(runaway global warming of 8-10 degrees or nuclear war are the most probable), I p
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9y ago
I mean one side was literally advocating the extermination of all/most minorities in this country and chanting things along those lines. If there are people chanting and advocating the extermination of all white people on the left I ha
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9y ago
Yeah that was a pretty crappy attitude considering BCC is trading at $200 right now. I imagine a lot of early bitcoin buyers used coinbase and are sitting on like 10+ btc. Not really cool to be ambiguous about stealing $2000+ from your use
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pfisch
9y ago
Are you a bot or a real person? How could you ban cytokines? That doesn't even mean anything to the point where I'm not sure you are a human author.
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9y ago
I mean you can always "risk" money for health with expensive ideas/inventions/treatments that may or may not work. Same as risking health for money.
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9y ago
Of course the reverse trade is possible. Vitamins, Trainers, Chefs that make you healthy meals, weird medical procedures: https://hiddenremote.com/2017/05/21/yes-blood-boy-silicon-va...
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9y ago
So you should just become a malicious actor and actually break the law? Good plan.
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9y ago
Kangaroos are really no different then deer in this context.
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9y ago
I'm glad there are people like you to test the system and all......but trusting your life with these early driving AIs seems like darwin award territory.
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9y ago
The NSA trying to protect its intelligence gathering methods is pretty different from falsely accusing a foreign power of hacking.
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pfisch
9y ago
Remind me what past incident you are referring to.
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