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lemma

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    Comment #8776624

    You are comparing attacks that killed thousands to a movie?

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    Comment #8776616

    Because it necessarily limits the far more important right of free expression.

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    Comment #8611967

    I love the idea, but aren't you worried about the name causing trademark issues?

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    Comment #8509948

    I'm on my way out and maybe someone else can chime in with more relevant references, but as a starting point, this is something studied at least in business/economics. Wouldn't sur…

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    Comment #8449470

    The financier is Miami-Dade County. Looks like the idea is to encourage new startups in the city.

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    Comment #8025855

    Can you expand on this? What would great curation/curation tools look like? I feel like I agree with this insight, but don't know much about the field.

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    Comment #7968197

    Just finished "The Second Machine Age",not bad for a quick read and some framing of tech trends, but definitely not very technical/thorough.

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    Comment #7719238

    I think a better tactic/branding would be to call it "double billing" or "double charging". Fast/slow lanes do sound like something you should have to pay for.

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    Comment #7607091

    To expand on #3: the "present" in the sentence isn't even taking place before the firing squad, that's "many years later". It places the reader in a timeless moment.

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    Comment #7492665

    This article is pretty misinformed. Title III of the JOBS act, which would allow crowdunding-for-equity, is still pending SEC rulemaking [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumps…

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    Comment #6979922

    I could be wrong about this, but I think I remember reading that Google became a registrar in part to get info behind the privacy services.

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    Comment #6827955

    I read those as rhetorical questions and think you two may actually be in agreement.

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    Comment #6712155

    Could be worse, I just typed a full home address in Miami and got a result in Australia...

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    Comment #6668269

    No, but there are privately run, for-profit prisons....

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    Comment #6665569

    To add to what you wrote about the fine line, slavery as punishment is permitted by the 13th amendment: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime …

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    Comment #6609083

    Not laughing at the effort, I rather encourage it and congratulate you passing level one. Everyone has to start there obviously. Its the attitude that rubbed everyone the wrong way…

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    Comment #6608969

    While being able to read a financial statement is a step in understanding a business, I feel this comment needs to be knocked down a few pegs, so... As an actual CFA charterholder,…

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    Comment #6591383

    To back you up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

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    Comment #6492951

    A quick note (since I'm on my phone) until someone posts a better reply: ev/fcf is a financial ratio you can use to compare how much you are paying for various companies (idea bein…

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    Comment #6424538

    to look smart Gravity's Rainbow ashamed of: the Dark Tower series tech: no interest in reading one from cover to cover, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise edit: not sure whi…

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    Comment #6424476

    My point is not to argue- my parents are both from (different) Spanish-speaking countries, one born under an extreme right wing government, the other an extreme left wing governmen…