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by rrggrr 10y ago
I love China and miss visiting. I don't miss and am haunted by my last visit, watching an elderly woman, broom in-hand, fruitlessly swept snow from an unplowed highway as cars (including mine) sped past. The United States spends nearly
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This is going to pass because tens of thousands of businesses are slated to change hands as a generation of owners pass on. Existing estate taxes and this proposed rule will create a tax windfall for USGOV that will make up for years of bad
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Wrong approach. You want to give me a dead simple API so that I can send highly personalized postcards in one's, two's or ten's to specific customers I'm marketing to. Should be less complicated than the Stripe API and i
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Contrarian view. The IPO forces oil producing states to cut production and raise prices or watch the market value global oil (For which the Saudi holdings are proxy) at discounts that will wreak havoc on sovereign and corporate balance shee
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Even if their costs to remove are 1/3 lower its high sulfur and far from consumers, and its priced in dollars. Refining and logistics costs are high.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
You can either have a system where everyone is covered at great relative expense to the healthy, or one where everyone is covered at great expenses to taxpayers. Either way, quality of care, breadth of services and speed of access are going
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by rrggrr 10y ago
>Supposedly the Trump campaign is viewed as getting along with Russia while Hillary's campaign is viewed as more antagonistic toward Russia. Trump and Vladimir Putin are both rich businessmen. All irrelevant. If its the Russian&#x27
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This isn't personal or about admiration. This is about Russian leadership responding to immense economic pressures at home. Buttons have been pushed freezing the assets of Putin supporters, sanctions have been imposed, and Putin's
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by rrggrr 10y ago
There is an overemphasis on Trump in commentary concerning the DNC hack. The explanation is even more basic. In the same way the US has pursued Putin's power base economically the Russian's are pursuing Obama (and now Hillary&#x2
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I recommend Dave Aitel's explanation of the hack (link below). https://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-eqgrp-leak... Even with NSA's considerable budget operating and defending against Russia,
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I'm not sure how Box has managed to burn so much cash the past few years, or how they manage to still lose money with revenues of 300m. Post-IPO one would think there might be an incentive to be profitable, particularly when large cust
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Yes, the shoe pinches the foot its on.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
He can stop whining... I admire Cook and love and use Apple products, but he should try running a small business and experience real loneliness. As he points out Apple has the bank account to hire virtually anyone, the very best people to h
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by rrggrr 10y ago
And claims he has Pelosi's data in-hand. Has US policy toward Russia been so spectacularly effective the past eight years that an attack this brazen is worth the risks? I don't think so. I'm not sure who is behind Guccifer 2.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Well he's incorrect in that we always had absolute privacy of thought. Its true we're no different from our predecessors who used cyphers, satire and concealment to communicate. It is also depressingly true that we are approachin
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by rrggrr 10y ago
As I said, I'd like you to live in a world without US humanitarian and foreign aid for awhile. A world where the USGOV doesn't project its power in all the places that offend you. I give it four to six weeks before the world devol
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I'll tell you what the USGOV isn't doing. They're not jailing twitter dissidents. They're not sniping protestors from rooftops. They aren't destroying the credit ratings of political dissenters. They aren't eve
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I prefer as little interaction with Apple's data centers as possible, but that is the opposite of the direction MacOS is headed. A quick review of increasing number of web services I pay for each month makes for depressing reading and
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Assuming the Russians are to blame for the DNC hacks, the mistake is thinking the US will respond in kind or openly. Russia faces more economic and security challenges now than perhaps at any time since WWII and US pressure can be applied i
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by rrggrr 10y ago
When you have to ban news reporting, you're expecting really, really bad news.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Irrelevant if true. A Trump, Clinton or Johnson administration cannot reverse trends in the middle east that threaten Russia's southwest border. Russian energy fortunes will not improve as pressure from alternative energy and shale&#x2
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WSJ Reporter Warns Colleagues: Use Encryption When Returning to the US(facebook.com)
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Turkey has not been a particularly useful US ally in the region in several decades and it won't be again, perhaps ever. The continued decline of US, Saudi and Russian influence in the Middle East is an irreversible trend, and Turkey is
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Anyone who believes Hillary had no self serving design in the email scandal is not paying attention.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Either the UFC $4B valuation is way too high, or Disney stole the Star Wars franchise from Lucas films. The disparity in revenue on a historical or annualized basis is huge. http://fortune.com/2015/12/24/star-
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Dodd-Frank != Sarbanes-Oxley. You are confused.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Not limited to equities, or to China. Regulators worldwide are weighing the systemic risks of now enforcing the transparency that should have always been present. Dodd-Frank is paying off now, finally as capital flees risk for the perceived
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by rrggrr 10y ago
No, they claim no evidence of intent, which is key for proving criminality. Gross negligence is an impossible prosecution where a defendant at a jury trial is a 68 yr old grandmother and the central issue is an email server. The upside here
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I wonder how John Deutsche and Samuel Berger feel about this. Both were charged for retaining classified data. And the many regular people whose clearances have been revoked or who faced administrative sanctions and lost jobs. The FBI recom
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I don't think the arbitrary solution can apply to real-world applications. A logarithmic debit from a players preferred payoff as a computation cost might make more sense applied to the real world. At a point the cost of calculating an

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