tryingagainbro

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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
All other things aside, gold has a several thousand year history as being used as currency. To pay for grains, hostages, to buy protection, raise armies, pay people etc etc. Bitcoin on the other hand...
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
I know. Sometime a joke is a joke. Even if trains ran on time I wouldn't advocate fascism as a trade-off.
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
sure but that pays for salaries, building, drinks...etc. So they're lucky if they end up with 1%
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
>>In Italy, people are happy a train shows up (hello Naples). Didn't Italians hang the guy that made the trains run on time? What did they expect?
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
>>Google doesn't make money off Chrome, it is just a gateway to access profitable services. In other words it makes /or could make money of Chrome (depending on investment and years of potential payback ++)
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Headline: Mozilla terminate$ its deal with Yahoo... if we had a functioning government a company with 70+% market share would not be able to buy even more market-share. Monopoly and all...
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
>>Of course not! They are benefiting from whatever the difference is between $450.3M and what they expect to sell it for in the future, discounted to present value. You're writing about him, so he's benefiting. He knows an
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
>>“What I can tell you in broad strokes is that Jihadi sympathy is rising in the area. With any luck you might just spot the ISIS flag being flown in the open,” Like you said, that area is virtually 100% Catholic, but in all areas,
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Newspaper gives different stats http://www.tiranaobserver.al/statistikat-ja-sa-vrasje-kane-n... and in the later years apparently it rarely crossed 100 deaths (3 mil people). In 1997-98-1999 law and order totally broke down
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Zimbabwe looks poor but I'm 100% certain that thousands of people have billions and trillions of dollars stored at home https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Zi...
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Nonsense and very outdated. We all agree that "justice" needs to be done. Before there was traditional law and order by the "state": you kill my kin, I killed yours. It kept things in order and fear of revenge made you t
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Quite a few old fashion Orthodox are still upset over it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople_(1204) . Like in Islam....different factions debate and hold grudges for ever.
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Article aside, an Empire that manages to last hundreds of years (1100+ in their case, and even more depending how you calculate it) must've been doing quite a few things right. Imagine how many enemies, crisis and emperors they had to
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
I am willing to bet that he didn't give to all AGs in USA at least the same amount...
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
>> I'm just saying, Thiel giving a small (for him) donation to some random AG doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly interested in that race. I agree, especially since he gave the same amount to every State AG in
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Sure, sure. If Bill Gates gave $1 mil ist's nothing to him but what is it to ME? The average person would probably be tempted to murder someone in exchange for that
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
America! Give $1000 to a Congressman and you buy what money in the real world cannot. In other countries corruption is more honest: want the license to build a building? It will cost you an apartment or $XX,XXX. Personally, I prefer the lat
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
In theory, why are lawsuits after this possible? Doesn't the bankruptcy court asks all debtors to come ahead until x date and after that the court decides? I know you can sue for everything but why would they have any chance? edit: Tha
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
No Iranian and no Russian influence. ISIS and others may seem as a temporary thing that will go away after a few bombings but keeping Russia out of ME and Iran contained is very important. Israel wants the same, coincidentally ;)
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Looks like they "bought" it but AMZN will license the technology to them so they'll still make some money. Apparently China doesn't want big tech to be non-Chinese in their country and doesn't seem to be hurting. Th
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Always been like that. But personally I think Google should be investigated and stopped, smaller companies will again have a chance. I assume that they are safeguards: the governor might be able to intervene if an AG goes nuts, the courts e
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
How does Missouri make this a fair fight? The power of government. Missouri can definitely pay for quite a few attorneys (maybe do a tobacco litigation type deal) but the danger is that other states will join in. Having taken on Google ca
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
>>where elite U.S. troops turned on one another Tillman was already dead. So no one turned against him (friendly fire happens a lot) they tried to save their ass after he was dead. A mistake, but they didn't kill him on purpose
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
>>It's better to teach each other about the world. 100% agree with you. Let me try: they are some people who do horrible, horrible things. Unless they are punished severely, other bad people might not fear the consequences. Dea
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
From the story it wasn't premeditated, probably got into a fight over the stolen cash and they tried to "knock some sense into him" the way they knew. It doesn't bring him back, no, but given that they panicked makes it
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
The iPhone is also manufactured there, but AAPL engineers are assuring that no corners are cut With other, no brand stuff you can expect to get what you pay for. As always.
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
MZ even if he knows that is a complete lie, he may sleep very well at night. End justifies the means, ala Bill Gates, type of reasoning. Will make it up to the world /God when I use the FB stock to do good.
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Feature or a bug the company deserves no mercy, you should triple check those things--after you quadruple check them. BUT, personally I assume that anything I do with a smartphone gets uploaded to the cloud via a permission I mistakenly gav
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
a retirement fund/livelihood is ruined but in the end, all the players victimized are free to try living again in some capacity and/or try to seek restitution. That's what justice is supposed to entail. Before or after the
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by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Sure, but the appropriate amount, in my mind would have been $100 plus prevailing interest Bankruptcy laws determine that. Maybe x% a year? Creditors took them to court and at that moment the court takes over. You should have bought more

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