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I met a cruise ship worker from Bali who started staying in the USA illegally because it pays more than the cruise ship. He works in some restaurant and will just keep doing it unt…

Poor people buying lottery tickets live in the daydream where they have won the lottery and are spending their millions.

If the majority of the state wants Sharia law, that will still not happen. India is a country of 1.3 billion with at least 10 different languages. There are so many sub cultures in…

Hinduism is/was the culture of the Indian subcontinent. Western society defined religion as a matter of faith. In India faith was not exactly part of your culture. That was in addi…

Hinduism is secular. Where have historically persecuted people of the world gone? To Hindu India. Indian Hindus are why Zorastrian people still exists as a religion. They had to fl…

I think its pretty clear you pulled that out of your fertile imagination.

This is BS. Pakistani jihadis are not overcome with any kind words. The isolation of Kashmir was the problem and the government has taken the solution that the majority of the coun…

Hindu Chauvinist party. Really? There are dozens of countries with Islamic constitutions. Do we call all their leaders Islamic nationalists? There is a serious effort to malign dem…

Yup a small chunk of off the book income which goes straight to cash is worth 10% to them

"It won't scale" means they would have to hire sales people to go after businesses.

My mother was in labor for over 36 hours (maybe more, she told me but I forgot) in 1976. You know that would be a C-section nowadays. She had two more children after that. I don't …

A lease is a depreciation financing program. It only makes sense if you want to change your car every 3 years. I think if they called it a Deprecation Financing Program they wouldn…

Yeah the target audience will ask if it runs WhatsApp and maybe Facebook Messenger and that's about it.

Exactly what Sam Stephenson talked about here: https://youtu.be/SWEts0rlezA?t=6m36s

Absolutely. There are so few places where you actually need an SPA. And now with form_with doing remote forms by default and getting inline responses from the server it is a real s…

So can you change an electric outlet? That means turning off the individual circuit (or mains if you are paranoid) then opening, disconnecting, connecting a new one. What about ins…

Blockchain on git as a service

You can use a property manager, they will take 10% of gross rent. If the margins aren't good enough to support that, then the property isn't a good buy.

Untracked files are not stashed, that is true.

An insurance companies funds will be subject to government regulation to make sure they can fulfill obligations.

It is the same as the Ripple network and XRP. XRP or lumens are the native currency of the network. Every other asset traded is an IOU. You can represent any asset or balance as an…

This is now shifting the goalposts. Before it was PoW is necessary to secure the network. Now it is we don't need PoW but it is artisanal.

There are still more consensus algorithms that PoS and PoW.

Do you see people printing banknotes out of feathers or some other randomly expensive material? No, and similarly mining bitcoin is some randomly expensive process. The process of …

PoW will go away. Noone will entrust their wealth to miners. There are plenty of other ways to achieve consensus and coins are moving away from PoW. But we are still not done with …