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figjamjam

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    Comment #16432175

    I don't have any anti-semitic feelings towards the jews. The jews here make up ~10K of the 20K upper class and I live in Punta Pacifica which is a jewish area. I consider their inf…

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    Comment #16431991

    The US is currently trying to start WWIII with Russia, the damage for this is yet to play out. The US installed a CIA backed dictator in Panama. When he stopped playing ball the US…

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    Comment #13099783

    Upvoted; I'd like to defend ethics here from the other respondents. Despite what may seem counterintuitive to making money; there is a positive correlation between company success …

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    Comment #13095767

    How do you design a fast car? You avoid designing a slow one. Make room for good habits by stopping bad ones. I wouldn't take outliers as examples unless you are also such an outli…

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    Comment #13083307

    I'm off the market for the foreseeable future and plan on staying that way. So no.

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    Comment #13081714

    I'm sure it'll be a different culture but that's part of the fun. My only advice would be to take promises of future buckets of money with a grain of salt.

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    Comment #13081658

    Yup, it was an average of 20 years older to wealthy VCs who look like my dad. I don't get the appeal, feels like jumping right to the end of life. They did get good jobs out of it …

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    Comment #13080937

    Thanks. A problem occurs when the market gets too thin. I've had all my long term gfs leave me for much older richer men. As a guy I'm confident that I will both get older and rich…

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    Comment #13080855

    Given your response, I put it to you that perhaps you are assuming too much about me and the tech industry. FYI I understand risk and culture to an obsessive degree. Edit: I used t…

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    Comment #13080292

    I was excommunicated from my family at 15 because I refused to join Amway. It's a family destroying dangerous cult. It's not like my family was super awesome before Amway but it di…

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    Comment #13060476

    The government makes it's money via property and consumption taxes. And there is no military to fund. The economy is also helped by foreign tax avoidance. Interestingly; you'll fin…

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    Comment #13060303

    Agreed, I now live in a tax haven. It's every bit as awesome as I imagined it to be :) I wouldn't mind paying some tax but there is a point where you're paying for your own propaga…

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    Comment #13060265

    For those who are unaware; the UK TV tax of roughly $15 a month. I never signed up. I'd get a threatening call from the BBC every 6 months trying to shake me down with threats of f…

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    Comment #13044990

    They're all rounghly the same. Some more expensive than others. I'm carribian based, I can't afford to be Switzerland based.

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    Comment #13043905

    How about abolishing income tax in general and just have a consumption and land taxes. I live and run my company in a tax haven. I had to move here in order to be competitive inter…