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so not much different than the stock market or ANY speculative investment, right?

How about anything regarding "black-on-black" crime? YOu hear about "serial killer" in Tampa after 3 shootings, but nothing about Chicago or Baltimore or Cleveland, etc... WHERE IS…

so we end the war on drugs and outlaw private prisons. Do you really believe this will satisfy BLM? Do you really believe this will solve the problems in the inner cities? Chicago?…

why is this on HN?

people that willingly choose those positions. I didn't go to college. I go a job out of high school. I did what I had to do, to be able to do what I want to do. People today think …

you're not reading it because you're looking to justify your own position and don't want to see it. when someone CHOOSES to give money towards a cause, it IS speech. (granted, most…

that would depend on your country's individual currency movement regulations as well as the different policies of the various exchanges. for instance, coinbase only allows for a ce…

true - however what has been happening in the last 20 years with paper fiat is not how fiat is "supposed" to work - though granted, it seems that EVERY paper fiat eventually leads …

> democratically elect representatives who will distribute it for them... good thing we live in a "republic". This line smacks of wanton theft. The poor should have a reason to be …

when all you have is a spear, going after "slow", grazing animals is "easy", but the Charismatic megafauna that survives today is in general, the ones you don't mess with (again, w…

comparing it to a 5 year old, Basketball players have to good and fast at tying shoe laces. that's all. maybe a lame comparison...

Remember, we're ALL learning all the time, always progressing in knowledge and ability. Or at least we SHOULD be. So lets take something simple. tying your shoelaces. when a 5 year…

its considered actual (gov't approved) currency in Japan and South Korea... beyond that, I don't know.

...and strangely enough they have less than 1/10th the population as the US. There are more people in the greater-Los Angeles area than there are in the entire continent of Austral…

58 were killed in Vegas, as of today's count.

2016 Nice, France terror attack used a truck to kill more people than the Las Vegas killer in less time. 86 Dead, 458 injured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack

tell that to a Trump supporter in Berkeley. While Facebook (IMO) does not force people to waste their time, but much like booze, it doesn't discourage it either. The result of over…

Edit: Personally, i find it a bit ridiculous the fact that people always find ways to blame other people for their own problems - in this case, someone is THINKING too much, and th…

i'm not sure if regulation is needed at this point. I'm not a fan of government interference. Unionization is one option. somehow enforcing certification is another to level the pl…

the problem being that everyone in this picture is 27.

eh. Maybe. If they copy the data to a 3rd party in America (i.e. sell the data a marketing company, for "research" purposes), then the EU can't really go after the marketing compan…

I think worst case (best case?) scenario is that they will 'copy' the data they're not supposed to keep off to another country, maybe anonymize it but otherwise the data will still…

so - he was a state senator for less than 4 years (Less than one full term) before being elected president. I would say that's "overnight" as far as politics go - considering the o…

and THIS is the attitude that gave us Trump. /full disclosure: I voted for Johnson.