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by amalag 7y ago
I met a cruise ship worker from Bali who started staying in the USA illegally because it pays more than the cruise ship. He works in some restaurant and will just keep doing it until he is caught or he wants to get married. Then he will ret
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by amalag 7y ago
Poor people buying lottery tickets live in the daydream where they have won the lottery and are spending their millions.
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by amalag 7y ago
If the majority of the state wants Sharia law, that will still not happen. India is a country of 1.3 billion with at least 10 different languages. There are so many sub cultures in India that the people of India do not think a few Kashmiri
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by amalag 7y ago
Hinduism is/was the culture of the Indian subcontinent. Western society defined religion as a matter of faith. In India faith was not exactly part of your culture. That was in addition to your culture.
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by amalag 7y ago
Hinduism is secular. Where have historically persecuted people of the world gone? To Hindu India. Indian Hindus are why Zorastrian people still exists as a religion. They had to flee Iran and Islamic domination hundreds of years ago. Hindu
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by amalag 7y ago
I think its pretty clear you pulled that out of your fertile imagination.
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by amalag 7y ago
This is BS. Pakistani jihadis are not overcome with any kind words. The isolation of Kashmir was the problem and the government has taken the solution that the majority of the country agrees with. The only people complaining are English lan
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by amalag 7y ago
Hindu Chauvinist party. Really? There are dozens of countries with Islamic constitutions. Do we call all their leaders Islamic nationalists? There is a serious effort to malign democratic norms in India unless it is only for Islam, which wa
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by amalag 8y ago
Yup a small chunk of off the book income which goes straight to cash is worth 10% to them
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by amalag 8y ago
"It won't scale" means they would have to hire sales people to go after businesses.
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by amalag 8y ago
My mother was in labor for over 36 hours (maybe more, she told me but I forgot) in 1976. You know that would be a C-section nowadays. She had two more children after that. I don't know how long her labor was for those but I assume it w
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by amalag 8y ago
A lease is a depreciation financing program. It only makes sense if you want to change your car every 3 years. I think if they called it a Deprecation Financing Program they wouldn't get so many customers.
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by amalag 8y ago
Yeah the target audience will ask if it runs WhatsApp and maybe Facebook Messenger and that's about it.
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by amalag 8y ago
Exactly what Sam Stephenson talked about here: https://youtu.be/SWEts0rlezA?t=6m36s
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by amalag 8y ago
Absolutely. There are so few places where you actually need an SPA. And now with form_with doing remote forms by default and getting inline responses from the server it is a real stretch for someone to say they absolutely need some of these
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by amalag 8y ago
So can you change an electric outlet? That means turning off the individual circuit (or mains if you are paranoid) then opening, disconnecting, connecting a new one. What about installing a ceiling fan? Assuming the wiring is already there.
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by amalag 8y ago
Blockchain on git as a service
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by amalag 8y ago
You can use a property manager, they will take 10% of gross rent. If the margins aren't good enough to support that, then the property isn't a good buy.
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by amalag 8y ago
Untracked files are not stashed, that is true.
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by amalag 9y ago
An insurance companies funds will be subject to government regulation to make sure they can fulfill obligations.
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by amalag 9y ago
It is the same as the Ripple network and XRP. XRP or lumens are the native currency of the network. Every other asset traded is an IOU. You can represent any asset or balance as an IOU. Your bank account is USD/Bank-of-america for exam
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by amalag 9y ago
This is now shifting the goalposts. Before it was PoW is necessary to secure the network. Now it is we don't need PoW but it is artisanal.
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by amalag 9y ago
There are still more consensus algorithms that PoS and PoW.
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by amalag 9y ago
Do you see people printing banknotes out of feathers or some other randomly expensive material? No, and similarly mining bitcoin is some randomly expensive process. The process of securing a "coin" can be done very cheaply with mi
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by amalag 9y ago
PoW will go away. Noone will entrust their wealth to miners. There are plenty of other ways to achieve consensus and coins are moving away from PoW. But we are still not done with the Bitcoin bubble.
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by amalag 9y ago
Yes many tokens are being used as shares and trying to circumvent securities law.
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by amalag 9y ago
Agree with you on Ripple's potential but I wouldn't read too much into that slide. Those companies were on the slide as an example use case. I don't think it meant any official buy in.
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by amalag 9y ago
Bitcoin has succeeded in creating a scarce resource backed by computing power. That's about all.
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by amalag 9y ago
We visited Bali and they have some beautiful paintings there. There are so many artists there. With a little training they could produce some outstanding original art but instead they are painting a lot of similar tourist friendly crap. It
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by amalag 9y ago
I agree with you and there are opportunities afforded to almost everyone. I think a few small tweaks are necessary, not these large wholescale proposals. One tweak is having a robust estate/death tax. That will create a more level play

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