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voisine

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    Comment #8633540

    Very cool Steve, congratulations. I think this is the first 2 party escrow market to come out. Exciting stuff.

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    Comment #4090129

    I see so many "why don't they just do X, it would make more sense" arguments about all kinds of government programs. The reason that don't in every case is because from the governm…

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    Comment #784443

    You can disallow all you like. Prohibition didn't work then and won't work now. You're just going to ruin more people's lives, and in this case, make the life of nearly every perso…

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    Comment #784410

    Not directly, but they are absolutely causing the situation, just as they were at fault for the rise of the American mob during prohibition. Using violence against adults engaged i…

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    Comment #784369

    Most of the article is about how dangerous the manufacture of the stuff is... who's fault is that, dumbass? There are plenty of things that are dangerous to manufacture that we man…

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    Comment #708849

    Nothing went wrong with economics. The austrian school of economics predicted the great depression, the economic failure of communism, the '01 nasdaq crash, and the recent housing …

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    Comment #683843

    wow... he must have made a killing... again. He's following libertarian/austrian school economic predictions, so I suppose now he's betting on the collapse of the dollar.

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    Comment #657391

    I don't buy it. The example of ISO9000 for instance. Customers value it because it's cheaper and easier than researching a companie's business practices to see if they're stable an…

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    Comment #623237

    UTF-8 encoding in 6 lines, from ezxml: if (c > (6 * b)); // head while (b) *(s++) = 0x80 | ((c >> (6 * --b)) & 0x3F); // payload }