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Comment #15808629
>>How do I get $2.2M dollars? Get $3.5m and give away $1.3m. You'll have exactly what you asked for. If you get atop job, salary plus options you could do it. Of course, unless you…
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Comment #15808537
>>there has to be something beyond "consensual relationship with subordinate" Yeah, he put a knife to her throat, no doubt. (sarcasm, OK?) She complained, said x, y and z and her w…
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Comment #15808063
>>after a woman complained to Human Resource Did you miss this^^? She complained. Maybe she complained to get back at him but still, she complained. Bill Gates also dated and marri…
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Comment #15803009
Investors like him and Buffet see gold as something just sitting there. if you buy a company, they will increase earnings, market share etc. Gold just sits on a vault--which is a g…
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Comment #15801801
Missed my point: First it is only fair. You cause problem for our Google and Facebook expect the same. That's fairness and economic patriotism. Not to mention that Google and Faceb…
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Comment #15801683
I think the headline is right. Any bitcoin owners best transfer to me whatever they have, just in case. In all seriousness: The govt wants its taxes. We're talking HUNDREDS of bill…
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Comment #15800694
Well it worked for them, they're worth at least $50B (Softbank wants to buy shares at that price.) They might have to pay a few billion in fines or damages but that's all. New CEO …
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Comment #15799624
Not gonna happen IMO. If they start to succeed, expect stories of how everything is being spied on by the Chinese govt. Which is a legitimate concern. No Google or FB in China, no …
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Comment #15799443
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent $500+ BILLION market cap, and stakes in a lot of top companies. Imagine if they truly entered the US /EU market
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Comment #15799393
Yes...eventually. Not the first obviously. Accidents do happen but like airplane crashes the self-driving ones will hit the news, ignoring the xxxx driver car accidents that week /…
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Comment #15799356
>>Profs are peaking at under $200k, the vast majority well under $100k. Contrast that with Comms directors making $250k. Comms directors provide more immediate returns, namely fund…
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Comment #15795305
Who knows, maybe they'll end up doing a different #3, put the cash in their pocket, while creators get paid with funny money. Lotsa scams as people try to catch the next bitcoin
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Comment #15789777
Or, pay them $25 an hour and no one will complain.
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Comment #15789751
>>I found staff asleep on their feet, exhausted from toiling for up to 55 hours a week. What's brutal is their salary, £8.2 an hour, but 55 hours in the busiest season is called br…
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Comment #15789684
Gawker (apparently) said that Thiel was gay. That's not defamation, it's a fact, so you can't sue.
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Comment #15789481
Well, he is smart, by whatever metric we judge people today. Two degrees from Stanford, job at top law firms and, at least lucky in several start ups. The fact that he is rich mean…
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Comment #15789452
>>Gawker, which had covered his political activities negatively and outed him as gay in 2007 I know it's not good for free pres when a billionaire funds whatever lawsuit he can fin…
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Comment #15784945
>>Regardless of what you think of the Koch brothers, this appears to be a mundane deal sensationalized by the specter of the Koch brothers. Of course, until 5 years from now, they …
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Comment #15780885
>>because Facebook decided to experiment and implement the Timeline feature That's to increase ad revenue, make no mistake about it. Like Google's algorithm and display changes...b…
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Comment #15780876
That's what keeps Zuck awake, I'm sure (sarcasm.) Buy ads if you want to get your point across. The fact that "everyone" uses FB is a badge of honor, a goal everyone tries to reach…
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Comment #15780838
"I'm retired" while you're blogging /making a lot of money by saying you're retired, is profitable but fishy. Like getting rich by writing a book about how you got rich. Yeah, a Go…
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Comment #15780623
>>He did achieved financial independence years before he was blogging. He is selling shovels and jeans to gold rush miners. "Financial independence" when supplemented by the $$ he …
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Comment #15775588
Not enough, and I have a feeling that he should've been one of the dozens, if not hundreds. Fraud in the case is commuted upon the buyers and everyone that breathes that air (cance…
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Comment #15774692
Complicated. UK for example claims to have gotten permission from the Ottoman Turks to take a lot of stuff from Greece. At that time, Turks were the legit rulers, as Greece didn;t …