thinkloop

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by thinkloop 6y ago
Any idea where google manufactures the chips? Do they do it themselves in their own fabs? It's unfortunate that the company best poised to provide the world complete end-to-end privacy and security, is also the one least likely to demo
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Does hosting client-side tracking on your own domain circumvent all the problems? How come that hasn't become the standard and killed 3rd-party trackers? If it's a question of having to manage an analytics platform, can't tha
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Probably because Syrians are considered cheap low quality labor (due to their desperation from having a decade long civil war), so it's kind'of like the US picking up laborers from Home Depot to figure out how to clean the Nukes.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
I was surprised and saddened when Mozilla gave up their mobile Firefox OS. They should have been "The Web Company". Google and Apple have competing interests with their proprietary native apps. They would much prefer the entire we
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> The right solution is: Dont share documentation in 1-1, always write it on the wiki You are restating the problem, the question is how
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by thinkloop 6y ago
E-transfer seems like what the American solution would have been - private banks integrating between themselves - whereas this fed solution seems like what Canada would have typically come up with. In fairness though, Canadian banks are so
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by thinkloop 6y ago
What did fate do?
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Repairs are estimate'able and often increase the value of a building by allowing for the increase of rent making the current leases a floor of value. The roi is relatively straightforward. Buildings are some of the simplest assets.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Check their leases, apply a vacancy rate of 5%-15% depending on history or estimation.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
If a building has tenants it's straightforward to value it, no need for comps or sqft calculations.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
You're right: "In 2002, Yahoo's CEO at the time, Terry Semel, engaged in negotiations to acquire Google, which lasted several months. The outcome of the negotiation was Semel balking at Google's price tag of $5 billion.&
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> Yahoo made offers to buy Google I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them [1] [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-turned-down-1-...
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Why do countries, including China, mandate companies use their servers in various cases?
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance. It's to make sure MSFT gets it and at a good price. Trump is very aware of the
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance. He's ensuring msft can get them at a good price. Trump is very aware of the pow
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by thinkloop 6y ago
What if giphy was worth 100x ARM, would it be interesting then?
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Is connecting to a VPN through another secure VPN doable/benefit?
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Whether you fund UBI through printing or not is unrelated to the function of banks. Society still needs to divert extra cash to people who are extra productive with ideas and businesses. But how do you know how much extra money to give to w
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by thinkloop 6y ago
I agree but preventing parents from providing security for their children is a form of harm. One could then argue that if all wealth were recycled, the state would be so strong that parents would feel even safer for their children in such a
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Fusion + AI = no more human labor
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by thinkloop 6y ago
You were not serving that traffic, you were just serving your core functionality - no tracking, no analytics, no ads, no a/b, no dark mode, no social login, no responsiveness. Are most of those shitty? Sure, just let me know when you f
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Obama and Biden are part of it
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Capone got nailed for evasion because his brother got nailed for evasion and he got scared so he tried to preemptively normalize his own tax situation but in doing so indirectly admitted that he hadn't paid taxes, so they busted him wi
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by thinkloop 6y ago
It's too time-consuming and/or dangerous to do any meaningful amounts, and it is monitored. You would probably have to wear a mask at the drop as well and things like that. Safer to just coinjoin + mix + xmr.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
What exactly are you referring to?
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by thinkloop 6y ago
I would've guessed they would've raised more, maybe they thought so too.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
That's not how pseudonymity works, you are anonymous until you accidentally leak, or have to leak, PII linked to your wallet. They can be totally anonymous right now without any mixing. Once they need to convert to fiat they may have
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by thinkloop 6y ago
87% of Americans can be identified with just a birthdate, zip code and gender [1] - finding the company seems easy. [1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/simulating-zipcode...
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by thinkloop 6y ago
He was duped, did you never order something off instagram at 4am?
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> The lightning network seems to be heading toward centralization, then what it the point? Is the delta of Credit card transaction fees with lnd fees that big that it warrants it? especially if credit card fees drop with time. There is a

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