summer_steven

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by summer_steven 9y ago
It also reminds me of my time in Southern Italy government officials with mob connections tried to exploit me when i lost my passport
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Here's a list of the top 100 American surnames. The majority of them are British/Scottish/Welsh: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/century.html No matter what you think, the British Is
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by summer_steven 9y ago
And those are exceptions to the norm. Look at the census of the 100 most common American names, they're either traditional American names or Spanish names from those who immigrated here over the last 50 years. https://www.th
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Your wrong about their being no traditional American. A traditional United States surname is generally English, Scottish, or Welsh as those were the primary people living in the United States from 1550-1850. For instance, I remember from Hi
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Ripple, the currency that is being investigated by the SEC ?
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by summer_steven 9y ago
>How on earth can you tell if someone is a native citizen from their name? Why are you playing dumb? He's clearly talking about someone with clearly foreign name, not someone from Canada. I'm sick of people acting willfully ign
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by summer_steven 9y ago
In the United States, to be considered an accredited investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of one's primary residence, or have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300
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by summer_steven 9y ago
> If you buy a lottery ticket, you are getting exactly the odds that were promised to you. Casinos and the state lotteries do everything they can to convince people they will make profit. Do you think a regular Joe can calculate the expe
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by summer_steven 9y ago
>> Why dont we regulate everything like that. Why do we allow people to buy unlimited lottery tickets or gamble everything away in the casino? > They also carry less risk. Few people who "lose their shirt" say "oh we
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by summer_steven 9y ago
So it used to be "only white, male landowners are responsible enough to invest" and now its "only the very richest Americans are responsible enough to invest". The SEC is blatantly discriminating. Why can't I sign a
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by summer_steven 9y ago
> Accredited investors requirement is what allows one not to be a subject to Blue Sky laws. You think its a fair trade to lock 95% of Americans out of the investment market in order to protect the elderly? New law: accredited investing m
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by summer_steven 9y ago
The point of accredited investing is to lock the middle class out of the market. If the law was really about "protecting people", then gambling and the lottery would also be illegal. Also, why can't I sign a paper saying I ac
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Not going to prevent aging as well as people think. As cells age, the risk for mutations occuring when they divide increases. The reason these cells stop dividing and become senescent is because dividing elderly cells poses a high cancer ri
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by summer_steven 9y ago
I thought Zcash was only for Israelis?
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Cities compromise 3.5% of the United States land area. They are not taking land away from trees or wildlife..
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Cheap plastic toys probably use superior plastic to the PLA plastic of most maker bots though
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Haha sounds like your kids will be spending most of their time at their friends house with the "cool" parents They will only appreciate your dedication to environmentalism when theyre older
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Imagine a 60 year old lady with stock in a company that has had its value destroy by anti-monopoly laws... Imagine how much money flows out of investors' pockets and into the pockets of government insiders and lawyers during a big anti
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Using government power to forcefully break up a publicly owned company is such a barbaric way of doing things. Here are some better suggestions: 1. Force government institutions to use alternative search engines 2. Have government instituti
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Then by your logic, is global regulation superior to Federal regulation?
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by summer_steven 9y ago
personally i'd be outraged if my taxes were used to destroy edible food that could be given away to those in need
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by summer_steven 9y ago
You CAN break the law if you are okay accepting the punishment. A good instance is jaywalking: it's a minor offense and police don't really care to enforce it. So people decide to break that law all the time. A law is a contract.
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by summer_steven 9y ago
> Would you excuse the individuals at VW VW is being fined right now. Does that sound like being excused? And I do see it differently when a companies transparently refuses to obey a law and accepts a fine vs when a company lies.
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by summer_steven 9y ago
> It is kinda surreal that a company obeying the law is headline news. That is an unreal level of politicking. You can't see any reason why companies might prefer to pay a fine than obey a law? If you lived in an HOA, and that HOA m
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by summer_steven 9y ago
My dogs eat only raw meat. Cooked meat can remove important nutrients like vitamin C from the meat that dogs rely on. I also supplement my dogs with 150 mg/day of magnesium glycinate. I shudder when I see these prematurely aging dogs
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by summer_steven 9y ago
> [I blame the lack of] decades of counter-collectivism propaganda. How do Eastern European countries fare then? How about China?
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by summer_steven 9y ago
Your making the classic mistake of equating the top 10% European countries like Switzerland and Sweden with the entire United States . Midwestern states, Washington state, and New England have cohesion. Correct your perspective and see
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by summer_steven 9y ago
> Here's a conundrum: Cars kill ~30,000 people per year in the USA. Vehicle emissions cause ~58,000 premature deaths. That's a problem. Not bicycles, not E-bikes, not bike sharing programs, not motorcycles, not skateboards, not
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by summer_steven 9y ago
> In my mind patents were made to protect inventors and the little guy so that he/she could capitalize on their invention before the market is unleashed. When multi-billion dollar companies are gaining government sanctioned exclusiv
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by summer_steven 9y ago
This is almost like a patent on cars that go above 60 MPH. Or a website that takes less than 50 ms to load. They have a patent on the RESULT of technology. The patent SHOULD be on THEIR VERY SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION of 1-click checkout, but

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