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throwaway_kufu

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    Comment #27474824

    You previously brought up El Salvador’s murder rate as though that has anything to do with or diminishes their Bitcoin experiment. It is really odd until you reveal below that you …

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    Comment #27447930

    > Google added flights, but Booking Holdings (aka Priceline) continued to grow each year to 15B in revenue for 2019. (Huge drop for 2020 obviously.) But did advertising on Google b…

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    Comment #27442706

    How long to break even after building your own search engine?

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    Comment #27417494

    How many people are you currently hiring and what’s the compensation package of each employee?

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    Comment #27390749

    > Suppose that Fauci had known for a fact in May 2020 that SARS-COV-2 originated in that lab. How would that have changed the advice he (attempted to) offer regarding public health…

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    Comment #27294166

    Trillions were not distributed to the populace, trillions were distributed to businesses and the Fed to leverage even further to prop up the stock market. The “populace” got billio…

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    Comment #27209938

    Look I’m as jaded as the rest, like everyone. I’ve seen mass manipulation to promote bullshit wars. I graduated in 2008 and I am still told to shut up and say thank you to the bank…

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    Comment #27208746

    You seem to be sarcastic but in fact yes the Robinhood/GameStop BS resulted in both a congressional probe and it skipped the FBI and went straight to the prosecutors at the Departm…

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    Comment #27208587

    Except it doesn’t mean nothing because there are a bunch of lawsuits against Robinhood, because the law provides a remedy for the bullshit they pulled.

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    Comment #27208474

    It’s the same company that attempted to keep its customers Bitcoin cash when Bitcoin forked right? Then only backed down after consumer backlash? Same company that tipped off its e…

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    Comment #27208374

    To all the decentralized exchanges where poor fools have their money locked up to be sniped.

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    Comment #27208229

    Except Crypto isn’t regulated like stocks, so what your likely seeing is the exchange themselves shutting off service to lock in their customers while the exchange liquidates its p…

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    Comment #27199174

    Location isn’t the legal standard…it would essentially be like saying customers can watch all Studio A movies at Theater A and then watch all Studio B movies at Theater B. Sure it’…

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    Comment #27194733

    For a little background on the movie industry and antitrust law, the Hollywood studios once upon owned everything from the way movies were produced, distributed and exhibited. The …

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    Comment #27146018

    The mmm.pages post yesterday was really refreshing positive, until a comment floating to the top ranted about geocities style/gifs being schizophrenic, nostalgia being toxic, and r…

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    Comment #27120956

    By considering employers spend billions of dollars a year lobbying to keep the power imbalances. Think about the efforts Amazon and Walmart go to keep their employees from unionizi…

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    Comment #27091001

    The $100MM is the benefit. So they are giving back some of the benefit they already received. Yeah they call it waste when they have to give back but the true waste is the policies…

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    Comment #27090889

    The top .1% own as much wealth as the bottom 90%. For better or worse the only way that type of inequality happens is as a direct result of the policies of the country they live in…

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    Comment #27090533

    Facebook has violated their own privacy policy many times, faced legal penalties and settled with the FCC for their violations, then violated their settlement agreements with addit…

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    Comment #27089771

    Victims, whether or not they are educated, or even if they are stupid as they have been called, are still victims. You are exercising crazy mental gymnastics to victim blame, it’s …

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    Comment #27086829

    Zuckerberg could make his personal tracking publicly available 24/7 to FB users, it would demonstrate what’s being collected and show his users he is willing to give up his privacy…

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    Comment #27085701

    If you don’t believe in protections of uneducated investors that do lose money on Doge who exactly deserves protections. These are the very same people that would invest in a stock…

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    Comment #27085681

    There is a major difference between laws to protect people from all incarnations of their stupidity from pump and dump schemes directed at unregulated investment vehicles. It’s the…

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    Comment #27083423

    I have been listening to an audio book, Man’s Search for Meaning, written by Viktor E. Frankl a neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. Like many books written of experie…

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    Comment #27082818

    Whether or not he owns it, he is single handedly responsible for pumping it. Look at how he pumped it leading up to 4/20/21 (DogeDay) and then Twitter bots and scammers pumped it o…