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freech

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    Comment #16674470

    "Income from virtual currency transactions", not "virtual currency transactions".

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    Comment #16667272

    There are lots of CRUD apps that help people in need.

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    Comment #16666415

    You could require people to advance some money, that they only get back if they pass the test.

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    Comment #16666101

    If you want to stop having casual sex but feel you can't control yourself, maybe you can have yourself committed to some sort of clinic, instead of trying to take away the possibil…

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    Comment #16665808

    The person who runs the platform could do some calculations themselves and then throw people out if there's a disagreement.

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    Comment #16645314

    Reddit but only academics can participate? Probably better then peer review, but it won't have the aura.

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    Comment #16645210

    This is protectionism for capitalists. At the end, capital competes for labor and less foreign capital means domestic capitalists have to pay less.

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    Comment #16561289

    > Even Green’s 93-year-old father sometimes asks if he really wants to spend his time making life difficult for companies that employ thousands of Brits. This is such a teriffic ar…

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    Comment #16561279

    You've got to be kidding. What about the cast system? Do you think that would be better or worse now if the british had never colonialised india? Would india be a democracy now?

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    Comment #16561199

    > In October 2008, Barclays was saved from collapse thanks to a $12 billion investment led by Qatar’s government. As part of the transaction, Barclays paid Qatar a secret $452 mill…

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    Comment #16539472

    It follows from the law of marginal utility.

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    Comment #16533768

    So china invades Taiwan, Taiwan nukes them, and then? China decides to nuke them of the map instead?

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    Comment #16533397

    The entire point of cryptocurrency is to control it yourself, by owning the private keys. Instead of investing in ethereum with coinbase, why not invest in a centralized smart cont…

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    Comment #16533382

    > There was a guy a while ago who bought a hardware wallet on ebay and lost all his coins. Was this because he sent his coins to a paper wallet that the seller generated for him? I…

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    Comment #16531245

    > We'd probably know if they'd ever tested a weapon. We wouldn't necessarily know if they'd actually built one. If I were them, I totally would have. What's the point of having nuc…

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    Comment #16526133

    The employees of corporations are absolutely subject to things like the 3 strikes law and the death penalty for things they do for the corporation. So it makes sense that they have…

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    Comment #16513051

    > If you're in a country where child pornography is legal, should all other countries just accept it? Yes. > If you're in a country where doxxing is legal, should the victims not b…

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    Comment #16512841

    I wonder whether Amazon accounts for this properly. If someone asked them to remove a competitors products, how much money would they demand? They'd have to calculate the damage th…

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    Comment #16511654

    > mainly because the www.gutenberg.org site has some content in the German language. That's an extraordinary theory of international law. By that logic Austria and Namibia also hav…

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    Comment #16455607

    In contrast to Warren Buffett, who presumably uses his Coca-Cola shares to buy coffee somewhere.

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    Comment #16455595

    I honestly don't get the point of this company. If I feel competent to judge that some decision they make like investing in American Express is good, why not do that directly, myse…

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    Comment #16454320

    How is American Express not a primarily digital business?

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    Comment #16453297

    There's a third possibility in your example though: Invest in mining the PoW currency.

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    Comment #16418929

    > first, you identify inefficiencies in the market: weaknesses, loopholes, things like that Huh? That's not what inefficiency means. It means that an asset costs more (or less) the…