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Panoramio: The day that we rejected an acquisition offer from Google(novobrief.com)
2 points by readhn 10y ago|0 comments
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by readhn 10y ago
Scarface was not too far from the truth. Except these days they don't bring in bags of money through the front door.... Well I take it back. May be in Mexico it it's still the case! Lol
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by readhn 10y ago
The best places for intervention: 1. banks and offshore accounts (full transparency) 2.Transportation via private planes. Make it impossible to move large amounts of money using non transparent mechanisms. Make it impossible to move drugs v
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by readhn 10y ago
Banks launder drug money. It is a fact. HSBC, BofA, JPM ... all of them are involved. Fines clearly dont work. We have drug epidemic currently in the united states. What other solutions do you suggest that will stop the drug money flows? I
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by readhn 10y ago
I have easy solution to really cripple global drug trade. Stop drug money flows = cripple drug flows. If a bank gets caught with drug money laundering - all executives loose bonuses and golden parachutes, their salaries go down to average h
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by readhn 10y ago
Ohh that BS war on drugs again! How come banks get to get away with measly fines for laundering cartel drug money for do long? 100s of billions of dollars per year of drug money flow through the banking system, sure its profitable to pay th
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by readhn 10y ago
Damn it, I remember the days when one could sit there inside until 2am in the morning smoking and drinking coffee until closing then driving to Boston sea port watch the airplanes land at night. Good times. The place well be missed :(
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by readhn 10y ago
Anyone does not agree? If you are a person of interest, Do you think government would not use an opportunity to fabricate evidence against a citizen using collected data?
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by readhn 10y ago
On a personal level the disclosure was that "little additional push" (a wake up call) that made me abandon use of main Google services (email and voice). I advocated my close friends and associates to do the same and some of them
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by readhn 10y ago
It has not made our data safer - rather it confirmed that our data "is not safe" anymore!! Snowden confirmed that we have 0 (zero) privacy and that government has unrestricted access to all of your personal data, and if needed tha
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by readhn 10y ago
"Aside from TAG Heuer SA, which released a $1,500 smartwatch last year, Swiss companies have been slow to respond this shift. Only 25 percent of watch executives consider smartwatches a competitive threat, according to a survey last ye
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Saving the Swiss Watch Industry Again(bloomberg.com)
28 points by readhn 10y ago|57 comments
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by readhn 10y ago
A San Francisco hedge fund has filed a civil suit against the company over its investment. The suit is without merit, the assertions are baseless, and the plaintiff is engaging in revisionist history. Most of the company statements the plai
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Theranos Company Statement Regarding Investor Lawsuit(news.theranos.com)
1 points by readhn 10y ago|1 comments
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by readhn 10y ago
I completely understand Chinese (or any other country) entrepreneurs, why let some foreign company come in and take all the money (ultimately a lot of it outside the country) when you can do the same internally. The idea is not a rocket sci
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by readhn 10y ago
Does anyone else think this is the type of behavior expected of supposedly world class, cutting edge researchers? Cussing at the person who is challenging them? With the approval of the management? Theranos, MAY have a chance to build a suc
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by readhn 10y ago
The whole company is full of delusional characters it seems... Read recent article, apparently during recent company meeting the entire auditorium of Theranos employees chanted "F... Y.. Carreyrou! F... Y.. Carreyrou! " What kind
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by readhn 10y ago
This is after several papers were published on inherent inaccuracy of small blood volume based tests..
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by readhn 10y ago
RIP THERANOS.2016.
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by readhn 10y ago
If you knew anything about that period of Russian history you would know that no one built fortunes legally back then. Stop defending another crook.
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by readhn 10y ago
>> Under Yeltsin ... population was free to organize and promote positive change. I see that you have some illusions about that period, perhaps due to the fact that you could only see it through the lens of the western media. No, popu
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by readhn 10y ago
Ok my bad, to me Medvedev and Putin are 1 person. So ok Shuvalov is technically a deputy prime-minister or next in line. Does it really make a difference? Is he now allowed to steal? Medvedev his boss has done pretty good for him self as we
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by readhn 10y ago
If you understand who runs the country and how they operate then you will understand that they do not desire any serious conflicts with the west. West - is where they retire, keep their money and often families. They are not about to shoot
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by readhn 10y ago
Strong enough to grab Crimea from Ukraine? Its like stealing candy from a kid. Ukraine's military is in even worse shape. Syria is not exactly super power either. The military machine over there can spit out "super weapon in devel
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by readhn 10y ago
Igor Shuvalov, officially worth half a billion dollars. Has properties all over europe, his wife flies their dogs (corgis) all over europe for dog shows ... on a private bombardier business jet... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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by readhn 10y ago
of course its not that simple. simply because this is how corruption operates in the west as well. they use similar channels and ways to hide/legitimize questionable profits.
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by readhn 10y ago
Ruining russian military? You mean rusting tanks from the 60's or expired rockets from cold war era? The military can not compete with the west anymore. People there stopped dreaming in the 90's when the ugly side of "new Rus
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by readhn 10y ago
Sanctions are a dirty western political trick just so the politicians here can say "we did something". Sanctions are useless! Do you know who they affect? Regular people ONLY. Who have no say in politics anymore over there (electi
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by readhn 10y ago
haha sure. no one is going to world war III over this! I hope you realize this. What needs to happen is proper legal process and some heads need to roll at the Russian ministry of defense.
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by readhn 10y ago
im sure you are kidding. no one is going to war with Russia anytime soon! lol ..so it is likely to be a nothing.

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