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overhang
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Comment #16162962
You've obviously left out the people who have taken seconds on their houses, home equity lines, student loans, payday loans, and all the other forms of debt that could finance a pu…
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Comment #16161787
And then it will well and truly be stuck at $0. It would be foolish indeed to buy a coin of any cryptocurrency when all the coins are held by one individual.
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Comment #16161696
How do you know how much debt is tied to cryptocurrencies?
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Comment #16161653
So cryptocurrencies are like Enron? Too big to fail? Too useful? Too what? Can I interest you in a Venezuelan bolivar fuerte. There are 30,000,000+ people vested in it. There are b…
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Comment #16160997
Were you around a few years back to see real estate values drop from $300K to $25K? I saw that. And we are talking about a physical property. $25K is not zero, but it would be hard…
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Comment #15881124
Just as a thought experiment, imagine a line of 20 vehicles all traveling at a safe distance going the exact same speed--the legal maximum limit. Does this sound like a utopia to y…
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Comment #15881062
> Your prescription creates situations in which it is literally impossible to drive safely That is ridiculous. If the vehicle in front of you is traveling 75mph and you want to tra…
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Comment #15880794
> I can't even count how many times I have seen a tractor-trailer in the left lane at 70 mph passing a tractor-trailer in the right lane at 69 mph, as passenger cars stack up behin…
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Comment #15880489
The right lane is for people driving below the maximum speed limit. The second lane from the right is for people driving faster than people in the right lane. The left lane is for …
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Comment #15817213
It's interesting to me that your employer isn't a privacy concern to you. How much of the data about you in the Equifax breach do you think came from your employer? How much of you…
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Comment #15811157
https://goo.gl/KYATXX That's a $22 backup camera. I haven't seen it yet, but I don't know why somebody couldn't develop a similar kit to put on the front bumper that could warn abo…
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Comment #15803388
Imagine if some company were to make a completely new language just for an IDE.
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Comment #15752550
Define 'misuse'. If they sell ad space based on your geolocation, is that a misuse? If they sell your geolocation, ip address, and search history together, is that a misuse?
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Comment #15752471
Define 'breach'. Did Equifax obtain information about me via a breach? Show me where in my mortgage contract I gave the bank permission to disclose anything to Equifax. Show me any…
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Comment #15752400
Let's say that Party A collected private data as in your step 1. Then Party B stole that data as in your step 3. Do you punish at step 3? Party A's step 3 is Party B's step 1. I do…
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Comment #15741439
Las Vegas recently debuted an autonomous shuttle. It experienced its first accident within two hours. The road to trust could be long and bumpy.
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Comment #15741380
Perhaps it might be a good rule of thumb that no human be allowed to drive a 40 ton semi in conditions under which we don't trust an autonomous system.