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bocajuniors

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    Comment #25672321

    Why not just use a standard SIP-account? You can use it with the softphone of your choice. Much like email. For instance Ekiga on desktop or Zoiper on mobile. And a SIP-account fro…

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    Comment #21553959

    The original definition of inflation is a decrease in the value of money.And since the value of money really is a measure of what value there is to buy divided by total amount of m…

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    Comment #16046287

    mathematical proofs have no side effects

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    Comment #15166329

    Societies with more evenly distributed wealth tends to have lower crime rates.

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    Comment #13380134

    how you tried gnumeric?

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    Comment #7738668

    It is our banking system that creates bubbles though.

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    Comment #7738359

    Not really.The bank needs two kinds of government issued money.One is cash, to cover their clients withdrawals.The other is government issued electronic money(reserves) to cover tr…

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    Comment #7045979

    This is a myth created by swedish 19th-century nationalists. I am a native of Götalamd.

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    Comment #6504066

    Yes. The bank gets the house if the borrower fails to pay. The rent should go to the borrowers fellow citizens. As compensation for devaluation of their money.

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    Comment #6503894

    In Europe the limit doesn't exist anymore. So the term FRB is somewhat misleading. I suspect the same holds for the USA.

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    Comment #5196620

    If something is beneficial for humanity but hard(or impossible) to build a good business model with it should be developed by government.

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    Comment #5196441

    During most of the existence of the US of America its competitors(Spain, Portugal...) failed to recognize property rights of ordinary citizens.This is destroying the foundation for…

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    Best country on earth?

    Really?When it's OK to shoot to kill if you think you are threatened? The murderer of Trayvon Martin must be punsihed. If not the world must intervene in the US.

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    Comment #3571507

    The only point of the patent system "is to encourage inventors to publicly document how their invention works so other people can use it (with licensing), instead of keeping it sec…

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    Comment #2872641

    Does wealth lead to less empathy or does empathy lead to less wealth? I believe the latter.

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    Comment #2093840

    As long as people's basic needs are fullfilled I think it really is the relative wealth that decides their happiness.

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    Comment #2056323

    If propert rights included poor people's properties nobody would have to pay 24% interest.This happened 100-300 years ago in Europe and America.According to Hernando de Soto this i…

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    Comment #1488264

    The fans of Boca Juniors are called Xeneizes, wich means genovese in genovese.Genovese is a dialect of the ligurian language...

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    Comment #1488233

    Maybe it has something to do with the fact that(due to its largely african(mores) population) some southern dialects are as much arabic as portugese dialects?

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    Comment #1486310

    I read somewhere that before 1960 less than 50% of italians spoke Italian.