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tempaccount9473

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    Comment #5647101

    > Meaning that over the long term no large pot of money goes unlooted. Actually, if you look at average fees charged by financial institution, and the divertion of returns on capit…

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    Comment #5640124

    I currently pay for two Netflix accounts, and I use neither of them. I have a collection of about 2,300 movies and TV episodes, some ripped from DVDs I own, others from less licit …

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    Comment #5635032

    The ratings agencies were pricing in the risk that Apple lobbyists would not be able to bribe the US Congress to allow overseas profits to be returned tax-free.

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    Comment #5615058

    He's cheating, he doesn't have a dealership network that subsidizes their sales operations with overpriced repair services.

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    Comment #5614642

    > Opening line of the elevator pitch - 'It's like Google, but for goo'. Uh, we just pivoted to a Facebook for homogeneous omniscient beings of pure energy.

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    Comment #5614327

    > PC users may have to justify themselves > Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? Yes, this is exactly what you should feel like if you compete for a limited pool of hipster dev…

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    Comment #5614229

    If aliens aren't coming to this planet, clearly this is a market ripe for disruption! I'm now looking for a cofounder who will shake up the L2L (lifeform to lifeform) market with a…

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    Comment #5596579

    > I'm pretty sure that the only reason you need to keep adding and adding ever more capacity is to prevent someone else coming along and doing the 51% attack, right?Other than that…

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    Comment #5596384

    Usually I'd say pirate it, put 10 hours into it, and buy it to support the authors if you like it. But right now, you can't play the new Simcity without shovelling dollars into EA'…

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    Comment #5591591

    > I strongly believe that errors are a much more pervasive problem in science and related fields than malice is. The problem is that economics is not a field related to science. Th…

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    Comment #5558629

    > Can it mine BitCoin competitively? Prior to the popularity of mining using GPUs, it would have been the shizzle. Today's ASIC-based systems will hash circles around it.

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    Comment #5552495

    > The Corporate System is actually collapsing. [Citation needed] I agree that there exists a hypothetical future where corporations collapse and all creative work is done by brilli…

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    Comment #5552443

    > stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error > I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page. So... first time you two…

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    Comment #5551867

    Selling your property involves paying a 5% cut to the agent, buying a property involves paying 5% in fees as points, closing costs, inspections, legal fees, etc. I would hate to do…

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    Comment #5520921

    How unfortunate, another "app" that would be more useful implemented as a web page and text messaging service. I realize web pages have discovery problems, but so do apps at this p…

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    Comment #5514686

    Neat, I really like the idea of being able to sync local storage with a Couch backend. > Hoodie currently only runs on OS X Oh, a hipster framework.

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    Comment #5475569

    > Because online wallets are not less secure than an E-Banking account at a conventional bank. Nope. Look at everything you can do with your online bank account. Transfers to other…

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    Comment #5444762

    > If the IRS helps you save $5000 [via a tax deduction] that you would have otherwise paid, then the IRS loses $5000 Many Americans have a (one-sided) adversarial relationship with…

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    Comment #5424708

    > How is this not gaming? It is "gaming", in the same sense that every decision you make to optimize toward a desirable outcome is "gaming". 40 years he had a choice; go work at th…

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    Comment #5409023

    So they have created an mechanism that allows replacing a small subset of what execptions can do (communicate errors to the callers of a function). The downside is they need to wri…

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    Comment #5377028

    People are more likely to carry a smartphone than a sharpie. Other than that, I really like your idea.

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    Comment #5369770

    The best example of a working and fun open-source routing/pathfinding engine is http://www.openttd.org It's optimized for gameplay rather than perfect efficiency, but parts of it a…

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    Comment #5369596

    If you're the guy that builds agent-based models for fun, why not build an open-source citiy simulation engine? Grafting your simulator with an open-source tile-based graphics engi…

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    Comment #5364492

    I can see your reasoning behing making people sign up, even if that will significantly retard your growth rate multiplier. But there's NO reason to make people create a new account…

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    Comment #5358160

    NYC has mandated that calories be printed on the menu in the same font size as the name of the product. So here's a better idea for software sales: For software licencing/sales, th…