thepangolino

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by thepangolino 8y ago
I think those kind of experiments should be the future of web browsers. We the people, need to take back control from online services.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
Well, why not? It won't put it under your nose unless you actively search for it.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
If they know the s’est is going to be empty, they can sell it again.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
I used to do accounting for several retailers. Markups are insane. Brand name frames retailing for €100+ would be purchased from suppliers at €15 or less.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
The first Iphone didn't even have 3G.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
They can pull a Tinder and charge arbitrary amounts.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
Not necessarily. Some cities still have fairly bad public transport. Using the car just happens to be worse.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
I’m not one to respond with memes and image macros but I thing this is relevant: https://m.imgur.com/jPm4DBC
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by thepangolino 8y ago
This is something that also always boggled my mind. One of the most expensive parts on an electric car are the batteries. No matter how cheap you try to make your car, you'll be set back about 20k just with the batteries. At this point
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by thepangolino 8y ago
Shhhh. Don't tell them. http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csai...
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by thepangolino 8y ago
What do you mean by "un-owned" plots? Can I just get a permit and build a house there without anyone stopping me? Someone has to own it.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
To be fair, "buy and hold" is probably one of the best investment advice there is.
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by thepangolino 8y ago
As you said, $100B is a colossal amount of money. You can't get it in and out of the market like that. SPY, the most traded S&P500 ETF has a market cap of $230B.
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by thepangolino 9y ago
>That seems like pretty unreasonable tinfoil Doesn't seem so to me. >I assume they don't pay You're dead wrong, my friend. They do pay. A lot. Think of all those juicy government contracts.
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by thepangolino 9y ago
Perhaps quite ironically, trading CFDs is completely tax free for Belgian tax residents to the best of my knowledge.
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by thepangolino 9y ago
And it's all done client side. What is the issue? Or does it bother Google and other online players that they can not control what is being done?
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by thepangolino 10y ago
From the looks of it, data mining seems to be a problem confined to the USA⸮
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by thepangolino 11y ago
>What would be a shift is if mainstream journalists did go Wikileaks-style and just dump everything online after they had reported on it...but ICIJ hasn't done that This obsession for shielding the public from direct access to their
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by thepangolino 11y ago
Outperforming the market in bear years is the main reason in keep some of my money in managed funds.
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by thepangolino 11y ago
IP rights are most likely heals in the Netherlands. Possibly in Belgium or Luxembourg.
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by thepangolino 11y ago
> 3. Hiding your IP while torrenting (note that this is relevant only in the US) The entire German nation would like a word with you, kind sir.
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by thepangolino 11y ago
My theory, as way out there as it might seem, is that there is hardly any interest for actual encryption. GPG's unique maintain was struggling to make ends meet until last year when he made it in the news. I have yet to find someone, e
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by thepangolino 11y ago
You touched on something I've always wondered about: what's up with all those different transaction data formats? What's wrong with simple CSv files?
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by thepangolino 11y ago
As a European, the US banking system seems to be stuck in the mid-twentieth century.