tomtimtall

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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Running a Marathon every day for a week isn’t really much of an achievement for Extreme runners... but people are still allowed to be proud of running even a single Marathon. He wasn’t claiming to be an olympic weightlifter just sharing his
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
At some point De Beers is going to do an elegant little flip and suddenly proclaim “engineered diamonds” to be far superior to anything that ever came out the ground... only just their particular brand of engineered diamonds.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
It sounds like you are trying to get a sales person onboard without having to pay him up front and you’re trying to pay a friend with equity. Either you business is viable in which case this a a horrible idea or you business is not viable i
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
At my old company the key to advancing was: suck at you job, make big failing projects addressing the wrong issues and lead to bigger longer projects addressing the same issue until you get an entire department assigned to you adressig that
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
This is not good for the woman in science campaign. You are not notable just because you had at minimum one collaboration with a famously notable person. She seems to be dissatisfied that she can’t just use the Erdos number as an argument a
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Honestly sounds a lot like he doesn’t regret doing it. He regrets that others are following his example. As for his business it completely sounds like he’s knowingly selling these kits to people who inject themselves but is trying to use th
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
If it makes no notisable difference to the user and cost you more time, you are just wasting time that could have been spend better on improving the users experiance.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Sounds like they got caught almost imidately after connecting it to the internet so propably not much.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
It looks like they might have used the money that should have backed tether to buy bitcoin, and then whenever the market looked like it might be correcting they issued more to stop it from falling and buy the dip.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
If you buy 100 tether for 100$ and I “sell my bitcoin for tether” by trading to you, then no new tether is created. Tether should only be issued when people buy them using new $. Their claim currently is that they have $2bil in an account b
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
I once sat in the board of a student organisation management a $3mil investment fund. Which was rapidly declining as funds where being withdrawn to cover budget deficits. At the same meeting where no-one could explain, and no-one seemed to
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Dane here. Most people can adford a car if they want one. Normalt you get a loan and pay a monthly rate over the lifetime of the car. Most people who don’t need a car however would rather save the money and use public transport or bike arou
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Really? I Player this back when it was first sent out, and honestly the only thing it’s got going for it is the premis. It’s not fun to play, it isn’t an interesting game and not one of the people I played with wanted to ever play it again.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Did you read the link? The paragraph wasn’t made up. It is a summation of attitudes towards children at the time. My bet would be that it was falsely wrapped up into a quote because it simplifies origin and time frame to better underline th
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
People don't move gold around. They trade gold IOU's which can be transferred faster than bitcoin, with far lower fees.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
You can't tax the GDP, it's a calculation on the state of the exonomy not a cash flow to the state.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Weren't all of these issues solved with latex? Why do we need to start over all for the purpose of making everything xml?