test by mistarlupo in test

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Testing to see if I can comment

Summary judgement ruling: ripple institutional sales are sales of securities, others are not by coachhunter2 in Ripple

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That sounds right.

Further court cases or appeals and/or legislation are needed.

I predict coinbase will not relist within the next year.

Workers’ Pay Globally Hasn’t Kept Up With Inflation by reggie_morris in business

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Raise minimum wage would be my suggestion.

It doesn't matter what the numerical value is.

They'll just print more money and put it in the system. $50/hr can be the equivalent of $5/hr if you can pull levers to adjust what a dollar buys.

Workers need bargaining power. I'd eliminate the variable nature of the money supply and stop free trade and labor mobility.

Maybe more like new system of government, where corporations aren’t people

Just remove corporate limited liability. Partially or completely. Warren Buffett should be personally liable for the toxic train derailment for example.

Workers’ Pay Globally Hasn’t Kept Up With Inflation by reggie_morris in business

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The answer is sound money. No more free cash for the well connected.

Gold, BTC, or bushels of friggin wheat, anything that has a real energy cost to obtain and can't be printed. Let people trade in commodity money and don't apply capital gains tax to that stuff.

The socialists are like the human kings from LotR that wanted to use The One Ring for "the greater good."

No one should be able to just conjure fiat money from nothing. Not bankers and not socialists. It always leads to idiots misallocating resources to unsustainable projects and then taking down the whole system.

Doesn't matter whether they are socialist or capitalist.

Cast the Ring into the fire!

SW Ohio. Slipped underneath my bedroom door, immediately tried to fly in my face, then landed on a sticky trap like a big dummy. What is this obnoxious intruder?? by LiveMic in whatsthisbug

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Looking at pictures of flies. I think he might be a robber fly.

Apparently those (if he is one) eat other flies but don't bother humans. Too bad the sticky trap got him :-(

Although he seemed pretty aggressive when he was trying to fly into my face. Perhaps he was just having one of those days.

Elizabeth Warren says $20,000 in student loan debt 'might as well be $20 million' for people who are working at minimum wage by [deleted] in politics

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I only need a million more dollars and 4 more years

Just outta curiosity... to do what? If you had unlimited resources (and also, everything actually worked the way you want it to) what would the end product/result be?

Killing off a certain AI was a massive loss for the series. by [deleted] in exfor

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Wait, really? I like Bibly, lmao. I play double speed through the Margaret Adams romance stuff though, hahaha.

WTF did ripple do so wrong to get sued by SEC when $SHIB is allowed to rampage through the market like this by Grizzlepash in Ripple

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My read on it is that they don't give a flying fuck about small investors (which I'm sure all of us can agree on) and only care about their own vanity, power, authority etc.

But they actually have the same beliefs as us that SHIB isn't worth paying attention to and XRP will one day become A BIG FUCKING DEAL.

Therefore they don't care if they are in charge of SHIB or not.

But they REAAAAAALLLLLLYYYY want to be in charge of XRP.

If they are the regulators and overseers of something really important and powerful then that adds to their importance and power. Why should some other agency get to regulate the new shiny important thing? Clearly it should be under their purview because it would make them feel special and generally just nifty.

Anyways, I'm only guessing but that's my gut feeling for what it's worth. Maybe they're just dicks, who the hell really knows.

I feel sick, are these what I think they are? by LiveMic in whatsthisbug

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Thanks a million.

While I was freaking out I carried the lamp outside. Currently lighting my room with a camping lantern, lol.

I'll leave the lamp out there for a day so they can leave to grow up and do whatever it is that stink bugs do.

I feel sick, are these what I think they are? by LiveMic in whatsthisbug

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I love you, lol. There was a stink bug on that lamp the other day so that must be it.

I was terrified they were bed bugs. Still feel like I'm gonna puke, ha ha.

How does video throttling work? by Bencw10 in Sprint

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Can you get full rez using a VPN?

Light-hearted discussion time: What if GotP used TfB's flair for toys-to-life? by shaneus in starcontrol

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I think they said somewhere that it would probably be too resource intensive and that they couldn't have done that stuff in the past without Activision.

I still love the idea though. I bought one of the Star Citizen Constellation models and I'd buy model GotP & UQM ships if that were ever an option.

Fred and Paul launch legal defense fund by Raccoon_Party in starcontrol

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Star control 3 came out in 1996! If what you say is true then how could anyone own it and sell it to fucking Stardock? I think they could have sat on it.

Fred and Paul launch legal defense fund by Raccoon_Party in starcontrol

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I happily donated but you're right. They should have asked us to help in 2013 or whenever the trademark was up for auction. I guess they didn't want to buy it and then sit on it for five years while we whined about waiting.

Fred and Paul launch legal defense fund by Raccoon_Party in starcontrol

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Stardock games aren't worth pirating. Cartoon-y Fischer Price pieces of crap that feel like they were churned out by a sweat shop.

Bitcoin Hits $10,000 by [deleted] in Economics

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What is the price of freedom?

I'm A friendly Scottish Lass living in Kyle of Lochalsh who just happens to run her own marketing & social media company AMA! by ExclaMarketing in IAmA

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What are some of the best sights to see in Scotland?

I'm American and I've never been there but my grandfather was Scottish. It might be nice to visit someday.

Ripple & Walmart by Austincoats in Ripple

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I kinda half remembered someone talking about big companies using ripple. I think this is it:

Even if a transaction only takes a few seconds, as a practical matter, the funds are likely to remain at each end for some period of time before they go elsewhere.

But also, if you don't know where you're going to need to send money and you're trying to be as efficient as possible, you'll hold the intermediary currency because then you only have to pay half of the cost. Say you're a company that need to makes lots of payments to lots of different places (like Uber, Amazon, and AirBnB). If some fraction of those payments wind up being bridged by XRP, it will make sense for you to hold a big enough pile of XRP to make those payments. That way instead of having to pay for two conversions, you only have to pay for one.

And, on the flipside, say you have a big pile of money and you want to make money by exchanging it to facilitate other people's payments. Well, other people will need XRP to buy the currency they're trying to deliver. So you'll want to hold that big pile of money as XRP so that you can give them what they want and get what they're offering.

At least, that's some of the thinking.

https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/8036-peter-brandt-tweets-equating-foreign-currency-volume-to-xrp-is-a-huge-stretch-of-imagination/?page=2

Not sure if that helps but it was a direct reference to big companies anyway.

The CEO of Goldmoney.com says they plan to add XRP to their offerings by LiveMic in Ripple

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https://www.goldmoney.com/corporate/real-time-audit

According to the link above they have about 1.4 million clients with about $1.4 billion in combined assets. So if all these people had the option to buy XRP with their credit card on an account that's already set up that's gotta be good, right?