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thedaveoflife

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    Comment #34744870

    I like the taste of IPAs but can't stand the hangovers if i have more than one

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    Comment #34521865

    It turned out to be an insanely high compensation package because of the volatility of crypto

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    Comment #20225605

    Of course the are not "taking" it either... they are issuing credit, allowing ease of purchase and providing fraud protection

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    Comment #20062846

    and of course they never propose any "perfect" solution that they'd actually support.

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    Comment #19639688

    Your thesis is supported by their financial statements. Their costs are indicative of a company focused on growth. As revenues continue to grow the can scale back marketing and adm…

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    Comment #19493290

    Trying overly hard to make something seem more objective is in a sense an obfuscation of what you really think. Sometimes you need to cut the BS and tell people what's actually on …

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    Comment #19454932

    Inflation is MV = PQ... you are commenting only on the M which is money supply. You have to factor in the other variables, notably V or the rate of spending. If V remains low, then…

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    Comment #19361520

    >It's a complex interaction of millions of individual decisions and interrelated changes over a period of decades in a way that's not reproducible. Somewhat incidentally this is th…

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    Comment #19342836

    canned fruit can have a lot of added sugar though

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    Comment #19342771

    I've eaten the same meal for lunch almost everyday for the last two months: https://www.reddit.com/r/GifRecipes/comments/8trml3/one_pan_... I did it for health and weight loss reas…

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    Comment #17135679

    Seemingly relevant, this recent meme being shared in China: https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/998932355527139328

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    Comment #11757400

    Depends how you define "sales staff". They need to sell their product in order to make money and they certainly have employees who provide a conduit for customers to buy JIRA. Thei…

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    Comment #11423626

    I remember my first time using Alaskan's self check-in kiosks... it was a revelation

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    Comment #11307271

    Occam's Razor: 1. Revenue Problem or 2. Neo-Luddite Problem?

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    Comment #10911203

    So his advice is to build a great product?

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    Comment #10011397

    Your theory directly contradicts the Efficient Market Hypothesis. If "dumb money" is flowing in to large cap funds, institutional investors should be able to take advantage.

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    Comment #10006650

    >Personally, I think it makes the most sense to sell outright a few of the most valuable properties and use the money to make the necessary capital repairs on the rest of the syste…

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    Comment #9925911

    Beats had $1.5 Billion in annual revenue in 2013. Beats + Apple Watch were < $1b revenue in Q3 alone.

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    Comment #9815766

    The reason it is kept secret is presumably because the general public has difficulty seeing the ancillary benefits (reduction of trade barriers) and pays close attention to the obv…

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    Comment #9815297

    Maybe the best way to ensure access to medicine is by providing economic opportunities to the worlds most impoverished citizens. In other words, if the trade off is say a 10% incre…

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    Comment #9747151

    Poking around on here reminded me that nickb used to be everywhere and then disappeared. It also reminded me that almost everyday we see well thought out predictions on here that a…

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    Comment #9370535

    Point 1 reminds me of Steve Jobs' famous line" "Real Artists ship".

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    Comment #9349638

    I haven't actually entered a bank in years thanks in large part to software development. I think it's kind of 'fun' to take picture of a check and deposit it.

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    Comment #8495024

    Yes because as we all know email is exclusively the domain of the young, idle Bourgeoisie

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    Comment #8466947

    I would think for graphic design work the extra resolution would be well worth the extra price.