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Nashhhh

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    Comment #12598391

    In the Q&A part he addresses this. I think they showed passengers first for the video just for stylistic purposes. He said he thinks you'd probably be launching spaceships and begi…

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    Comment #12355060

    The key difference being that in the case of Uber, those VCs and investors gave their money voluntarily.

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    Comment #10585904

    Perhaps this is relevant: meat in Argentina isn't aged. You never see it in marketing either... it would seem weird here. Cattle is trucked in to the city (a third of the country i…

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    Comment #10585852

    Probably either Bio (vegan) or Artemesia (not-so-strict-vegetarian). Or green bamboo. But the reason you found lots of vegeterian restaurants is not surprising: you were a tourist …

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    Comment #7423052

    You're right.

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    Comment #7423048

    You're right.

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    Comment #7423043

    You're right.

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    Comment #7420172

    Exactly! When I saw the headline, that is what I thought it would be about: how apple has been playing defense and is destroying itself. They have been innovation free since the ip…

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    Comment #7420162

    It's true (apple fanboy here, I remember it well). He was adamantly against them. If you look around, he did a whole keynote where he tried to present web apps as just as good as n…

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    Comment #7420140

    Saying it's been used since the mid 80s doesn't actually serve to convince me I'm wrong. In fact it does the opposite; I'd have thought it was in use longer.

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    Comment #7401681

    Yeah stolen! I had a copy of Ghostbusters at home on my shelf and it disappeared yesterday. I suspect a criminal using popcorntime must be responsible.

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    Comment #7102642

    Your examples are not examples of the problem with gold standards, but the rather the problem with fractional reserve banking, which is virtually non-existent with BTC (I disagree …

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    Comment #7100511

    This is true, but the end of your post implies that recessions have become rarer and less pronounced in a fiat system. They haven't. In other words, sure, central banks "flooded th…

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    Comment #7100483

    "Fiat currency is sustained by our obligation to pay taxes in it..." I often see this argument, but it neatly ignores, for example, the Argentine Peso, which is losing 46% of its p…

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    Comment #7100453

    Instantly. Zero exchange risk for the merchant (Bitpay considers their hedging strategies as part of their core-competence-- they don't always convert to USD/Euro/GBP [1], they som…