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tryingagainbro commented on Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars?    · Posted by u/gallerdude
tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
>>How do I get $2.2M dollars?

Get $3.5m and give away $1.3m. You'll have exactly what you asked for.

If you get atop job, salary plus options you could do it. Of course, unless you spend it.

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tryingagainbro commented on Andy Rubin Takes Leave of Absence Amid Report of ‘Inappropriate Relationship’   gizmodo.com/andy-rubin-ta... · Posted by u/artsandsci
ronilan · 8 years ago
A lot of things have been "historically OK" (at Google and elsewhere), but are no longer acceptable in today's society. It is called progress.

Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/GrlEQ15mVPM

tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
>>after a woman complained to Human Resource

Did you miss this^^? She complained. Maybe she complained to get back at him but still, she complained.

Bill Gates also dated and married a subordinate. Poor woman, where was Gloria Allred to save her...

tryingagainbro commented on Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle Says ‘Avoid Bitcoin Like the Plague’   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/dionmanu
non_sequitur · 8 years ago
“Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return,” said Bogle, 88, who started the first index fund in 1976. “You know bonds have an interest coupon, stocks have earnings and dividends, gold has nothing. There is nothing to support bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to someone for more than you paid for it.”

Didnt quite understand this quote - is he down on gold too?

tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
Investors like him and Buffet see gold as something just sitting there. if you buy a company, they will increase earnings, market share etc.

Gold just sits on a vault--which is a great thing for rich people to use a small % of their wealth for. Just in case. Gold has other uses and a 5000+ year history. Compare it to hundreds of coins out there

tryingagainbro commented on Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
kevin_thibedeau · 8 years ago
As opposed to all the American spy... analytics companies?
tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
Missed my point: First it is only fair. You cause problem for our Google and Facebook expect the same. That's fairness and economic patriotism. Not to mention that Google and Facebook "own" or can own US Congress and Senate. Hearings will start in days.

I believe that in authoritarian regimes you have ZERO choice or recourse. See Russia or Al-Waleed in Saudi Arabia. They will simply shut you down, break you in a gazillion pieces.

In USA you have courts at least. Have you noticed that Google is pushing encryption all over the web to make NSA's job harder or impossible? Let Alibaba or TenCent help thwarting FSB or China's security services

tryingagainbro commented on Criminalizing Bitcoin Users? US Congress Holds Hearing to ‘Modernize’ AML Laws   cryptocoinsnews.com/us-se... · Posted by u/seomint
tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
I think the headline is right. Any bitcoin owners best transfer to me whatever they have, just in case.

In all seriousness: The govt wants its taxes. We're talking HUNDREDS of billions now in coin value, not millions. Sure they are traceable, but at what cost? They can't pay $100K in fees to run blockchain audits to see if what you declared was correct or not...

USA has made virtually every bank in the world spend gazillions to report every account opened by a US person, Bitcoin is probably a walk in the park compared to that.

tryingagainbro commented on U.S. judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trial   reuters.com/article/us-al... · Posted by u/AnimalMuppet
internetman55 · 8 years ago
When did some of these of prominent tech people begin thinking that acting like psychopaths was the way to achieve business success?
tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
Well it worked for them, they're worth at least $50B (Softbank wants to buy shares at that price.)

They might have to pay a few billion in fines or damages but that's all. New CEO will apologize and we'll forget it. And that is because they got caught...

Not defending them, just saying in many cases these tactics work.

tryingagainbro commented on Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
giacaglia · 8 years ago
tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
Not gonna happen IMO. If they start to succeed, expect stories of how everything is being spied on by the Chinese govt. Which is a legitimate concern.

No Google or FB in China, no TenCent in USA either...

tryingagainbro commented on Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent $500+ BILLION market cap, and stakes in a lot of top companies. Imagine if they truly entered the US /EU market
tryingagainbro commented on Would you send your kids to school on a self driving schoolbus?   fastcodesign.com/90150756... · Posted by u/tuxguy
tryingagainbro · 8 years ago
Yes...eventually. Not the first obviously. Accidents do happen but like airplane crashes the self-driving ones will hit the news, ignoring the xxxx driver car accidents that week /month...

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