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Comment Re:Truth or dare... (Score 1) 617

Eve is allowed to ask Alice if she is willing to sell shares at 24.99$, because of free speech. Alice is allowed to say that, yes, she does, because of free speech. She would also be allowed to say "I won't tell you, I want a firm offer". And they're allowed to do that on or off Wall Street, and to rinse and repeat as long as they like.

The real question is that, given that Wall Street is so volatile and disconnected from reality, why is its index still considered an important number in decision making?

Comment Re:Newsflash (Score 1) 450

How would insurance of bitcoins even work? It seems particularly challenging for many reasons. Generally, insurance policies are written for things with a strongly-known approximate value. (...) Bit coins are highly variable - if I take out a policy against 10,000 bit coins, and they're lost, what value would the policy pay out based on?

That's easy. If you take out an insurance on 10'000 bitcoins and they get stolen, then the insurance company would compensate you by giving you 10'000 bitcoins. Meanwhile, you would keep paying your premiums in real coins.

Comment Re:Medical expenses? What's that? (Score 1) 651

Most do not work for the government nor are they elected, fool. As much as you would like that to be the case, doctors are still professionals who can work in the private sector and answer to themselves or their bosses and not uncle sam.

And that's exactly how it would be if there was a public health system. A universal healthcare system does not need to enslave anyone. They just need to hire people to do the work that the government deems necessary to be done. Like police and policemen.

You realize there is a difference between Sweden and North Korea, right?

Comment Ticketmaster can continue to profit (Score 1) 140

"And despite the reparations, Ticketmaster can continue to profit off transactions — they just have to say they're doing so on their website."

No, really? A private enterprise is allowed to profit off its business provided it does so in a manner that is not fraudulent? Shocking!

Comment Re:why dont you beat them up ? (Score 1) 624

Unalienable individual rights was a revolutionary thing at the time and is still forbidden in many "civilized" countries, Canada and the UK for example lacks freedom of speech (and have a monarchy! doh!).

Canadian Charter of Rights (part of the constitution), 2: Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.

Comment Re:Americans rule the beer world (Score 1) 840

Do not lie about the thousands upon thousands of micro-breweries that are turning out beers like anything that Europe can produce plus hundreds of other innovative beers that tradition-bound old breweries would never dream of producing.

But if I stop telling that lie, then I'll have to admit there is more to Belgium than waffles and beer. And then I'll have to figure out what that more actually is! Stereotypical jokes are way more fun.

PS I've had good american beer, so in all seriousness, I agree with you. And Kronenbourg is just as bad as Bud Light.

Comment Re:NO.. just NO. STUPID IDEA. (Score 3, Insightful) 430

You fail sir. The 4S reactor is placed 30m underground in a concrete and steel containment vessel. The sodium is encased inside the reactor and cannot come into contact with anything outside the vessel. It's a sealed unit.

Only until there is an earthquake strong enough to unseal it. The current reactor was also placed within a concrete and steel reinforcement vessel....

Submission + - Go back to preindustrial carbon levels in 10 years (photonics.com)

UnHolier than ever writes: "The key to rolling back climate change could be the sun, according to George Washington University researchers who have demonstrated a carbon capture process called STEP that promises to use solar power to remove carbon dioxide from the air. As a bonus, the technique could generate a profitable product. Calculations showed that it is feasible with STEP carbon capture to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere to preindustrial levels within 10 years."

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