throwaway_kufu

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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
You previously brought up El Salvador’s murder rate as though that has anything to do with or diminishes their Bitcoin experiment. It is really odd until you reveal below that you have a pretty clear bias against Bitcoin because you persona
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
> Google added flights, but Booking Holdings (aka Priceline) continued to grow each year to 15B in revenue for 2019. (Huge drop for 2020 obviously.) But did advertising on Google become more expensive for competitors once Google entered
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
How long to break even after building your own search engine?
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
How many people are you currently hiring and what’s the compensation package of each employee?
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
> Suppose that Fauci had known for a fact in May 2020 that SARS-COV-2 originated in that lab. How would that have changed the advice he (attempted to) offer regarding public health and safety? If he had known the virus was being research
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Trillions were not distributed to the populace, trillions were distributed to businesses and the Fed to leverage even further to prop up the stock market. The “populace” got billions. The printing isn’t really the problem either, it’s a sy
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Look I’m as jaded as the rest, like everyone. I’ve seen mass manipulation to promote bullshit wars. I graduated in 2008 and I am still told to shut up and say thank you to the banks for paying back taxpayer loans with interest that bailed
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
You seem to be sarcastic but in fact yes the Robinhood/GameStop BS resulted in both a congressional probe and it skipped the FBI and went straight to the prosecutors at the Department of Justice.
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Except it doesn’t mean nothing because there are a bunch of lawsuits against Robinhood, because the law provides a remedy for the bullshit they pulled.
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
It’s the same company that attempted to keep its customers Bitcoin cash when Bitcoin forked right? Then only backed down after consumer backlash? Same company that tipped off its employees to buy Bitcoin cash to pump it before it was list
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
To all the decentralized exchanges where poor fools have their money locked up to be sniped.
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Except Crypto isn’t regulated like stocks, so what your likely seeing is the exchange themselves shutting off service to lock in their customers while the exchange liquidates its positions.
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Location isn’t the legal standard…it would essentially be like saying customers can watch all Studio A movies at Theater A and then watch all Studio B movies at Theater B. Sure it’s more convenient online, competition being 1 click away, b
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
For a little background on the movie industry and antitrust law, the Hollywood studios once upon owned everything from the way movies were produced, distributed and exhibited. The monopoly held by the studios was effectively broken up follo
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
The mmm.pages post yesterday was really refreshing positive, until a comment floating to the top ranted about geocities style/gifs being schizophrenic, nostalgia being toxic, and real creativity = having the same cookie cutter modern w
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
By considering employers spend billions of dollars a year lobbying to keep the power imbalances. Think about the efforts Amazon and Walmart go to keep their employees from unionizing. Consider how Uber misclassified workers as contractors t
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
The $100MM is the benefit. So they are giving back some of the benefit they already received. Yeah they call it waste when they have to give back but the true waste is the policies that allowed the $100MM in light of the overall inequalit
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
The top .1% own as much wealth as the bottom 90%. For better or worse the only way that type of inequality happens is as a direct result of the policies of the country they live in, thus they should be grateful and thankful for living in a
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Facebook has violated their own privacy policy many times, faced legal penalties and settled with the FCC for their violations, then violated their settlement agreements with additional data breaches. He isn’t more sensitized to privacy iss
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Victims, whether or not they are educated, or even if they are stupid as they have been called, are still victims. You are exercising crazy mental gymnastics to victim blame, it’s exactly what people do when a girl is rapped and they say s
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Zuckerberg could make his personal tracking publicly available 24/7 to FB users, it would demonstrate what’s being collected and show his users he is willing to give up his privacy and data for the great benefit that is FB. But if he
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
If you don’t believe in protections of uneducated investors that do lose money on Doge who exactly deserves protections. These are the very same people that would invest in a stock based on a tip, they’d never be able to perform due dilige
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
There is a major difference between laws to protect people from all incarnations of their stupidity from pump and dump schemes directed at unregulated investment vehicles. It’s the same individual who has already faced legal repercussion
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
I have been listening to an audio book, Man’s Search for Meaning, written by Viktor E. Frankl a neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. Like many books written of experiences involving extreme suffering and trauma it’s extremely p
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Whether or not he owns it, he is single handedly responsible for pumping it. Look at how he pumped it leading up to 4/20/21 (DogeDay) and then Twitter bots and scammers pumped it on Twitter getting “DogeDay” trending by multiple t
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
It’s not USD/BTC. That’s not longer the dynamic, if BTC is dumped it’s value falls in relation to all other coins/tokens/fiat. > A whale liquidating lots of BTC sounds like a sweet bargain to me. This is my point, it’s al
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Not disagreeing but from Bitcoin, ethereum to DogeCoin they are all tied to the whims of non trust worthy persons. What if satoshi (unlikely but maybe the Fed itself) decides to liquidate its position of at least 1M Bitcoin. Ethereum found
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
It’s not black and white. If you have a gap and the reason is because you got pregnant and gave birth there is likely no stigma at all. Meanwhile if you were working for Google and took a job driving for Uber you might not ever get the op
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
Child care is a significant and major expense in the US, most of the people on HN that work for tech companies work for companies that more or less are openly hostile towards married employees with families, in fact anything less than a you
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by throwaway_kufu 5y ago
> and comes with a stigma. So does taking a shit job and that being in your employment history. From the employee perspective it is a lot easier to monitor the job market and actively seek out employment while not employed. It’s true une

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