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tryingagainbroon Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars?

>>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.

tryingagainbroon Andy Rubin Takes Leave of Absence Amid Report of ‘Inappropriate Relationship’

>>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...

tryingagainbroon Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle Says ‘Avoid Bitcoin Like the Plague’

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

tryingagainbroon Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising

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

tryingagainbroon Criminalizing Bitcoin Users? US Congress Holds Hearing to ‘Modernize’ AML Laws

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.

tryingagainbroon U.S. judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trial

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.

tryingagainbroon Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising

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...

tryingagainbroon Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising

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

tryingagainbroon Would you send your kids to school on a self driving schoolbus?

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...

tryingagainbroon Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans

>>Profs are peaking at under $200k, the vast majority well under $100k. Contrast that with Comms directors making $250k.

Comms directors provide more immediate returns, namely fundraising and spinning. However, top professors can write their ticket just to say they're there and earn a fortune on the side.

tryingagainbroon Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created New Currency to Pay Creators

Who knows, maybe they'll end up doing a different #3, put the cash in their pocket, while creators get paid with funny money. Lotsa scams as people try to catch the next bitcoin

tryingagainbroon Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse

Or, pay them $25 an hour and no one will complain.

tryingagainbroon Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse

>>I found staff asleep on their feet, exhausted from toiling for up to 55 hours a week.

What's brutal is their salary, £8.2 an hour, but 55 hours in the busiest season is called brutal? Please.

tryingagainbroon Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review

Gawker (apparently) said that Thiel was gay. That's not defamation, it's a fact, so you can't sue.

tryingagainbroon Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review

Well, he is smart, by whatever metric we judge people today. Two degrees from Stanford, job at top law firms and, at least lucky in several start ups.

The fact that he is rich means that people will listen to him more.

tryingagainbroon Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review

>>Gawker, which had covered his political activities negatively and outed him as gay in 2007

I know it's not good for free pres when a billionaire funds whatever lawsuit he can find against you, but outing someone, is really, really sleazy. So I guess they're even. Kinda.

tryingagainbroon Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers

>>Regardless of what you think of the Koch brothers, this appears to be a mundane deal sensationalized by the specter of the Koch brothers.

Of course, until 5 years from now, they simply frown their faces about an article and editors get the message.

Maybe it is like you said, maybe it will end like this:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/12/newscorporatio... "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch and said that I was speaking not as a shareholder, but as a viewer of Fox. I said that these are not Muslim riots, they are riots," Campaign Middle East magazine quoted the prince as saying.

"He investigated the matter and called Fox and within half an hour it was changed from 'Muslim riots' to 'civil riots'."

Money does strange things.

tryingagainbroon Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created

>>because Facebook decided to experiment and implement the Timeline feature

That's to increase ad revenue, make no mistake about it. Like Google's algorithm and display changes...buy ads to be on top of the page

tryingagainbroon Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created

That's what keeps Zuck awake, I'm sure (sarcasm.) Buy ads if you want to get your point across. The fact that "everyone" uses FB is a badge of honor, a goal everyone tries to reach.

tryingagainbroon A good resource for financial advice to share with people in their twenties?

"I'm retired" while you're blogging /making a lot of money by saying you're retired, is profitable but fishy. Like getting rich by writing a book about how you got rich.

Yeah, a Google /FB /x employee can sacrifice for 10 years and then retire, at least outside USA. Live like immigrants that send all their money back to their home country, do.

tryingagainbroon A good resource for financial advice to share with people in their twenties?

>>He did achieved financial independence years before he was blogging.

He is selling shovels and jeans to gold rush miners. "Financial independence" when supplemented by the $$ he makes while telling people how he got rich surely makes a huge difference.

tryingagainbroon VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case

Not enough, and I have a feeling that he should've been one of the dozens, if not hundreds.

Fraud in the case is commuted upon the buyers and everyone that breathes that air (cancers, asthma...etc). You're talking tens of billions. Go rob a store and you get a lot more jail time. Yeah the store owner and 3 customer were traumatized but so were the thousands or millions of people that suffered (directly or indirectly) from your fraud.

tryingagainbroon A stolen painting appears for sale on the dark web

Complicated. UK for example claims to have gotten permission from the Ottoman Turks to take a lot of stuff from Greece. At that time, Turks were the legit rulers, as Greece didn;t exist, so are they stolen?

Also, many time the Nazis officially or unofficially (ruling elites in city) "bought" them from Jewish owners. We can guess the price "agreed" to in those times.

tryingagainbroon A stolen painting appears for sale on the dark web

Doesn't matter much. Say, Spain prosecutes, a court rules it stolen and the Polish govt has to recognize the ruling and return the painting.

If it's stolen and the government is after you (in this they will), you're toast.

tryingagainbroon Jeff Bezos's Net Worth Just Broke $100B

if you're being sarcastic, I am sure he doesn't care. "Humanity" is complicated...maybe he'll make up for all with one invention on his space venture.

He did save people a lot of money, but then he did also cause many stores to go kaput. So, how do you judge?

tryingagainbroon Jeff Bezos's Net Worth Just Broke $100B

MSFT Market Cap: $642.317B

$20 Billion income a year

Lots of dividends over the years.

if this is lost value...I'd take it.

tryingagainbroon Jeff Bezos's Net Worth Just Broke $100B

So Bezos can pay to run his country tax-free for, what, 2-5 years?

tryingagainbroon China Busts a $3B Underground Bank

>>India and China both have nuclear weapons, meaning death trigger for everyone on earth, you don't want to touch that.

Yet they--and USA, Russia, France, UK etc--also have millions of soldiers and spend gazillions a year on conventional military stuff. Usually try to outdo each other.

>>Tibet on the other hand is a very long, complex and different story

Complex it is, but it's now 100% part of China, regardless of whatever.

>>in China, nobody think of India or Vietnam etc as enemy

Yet, they all have militaries and somewhere on the shelves they plans to attack /defend from each other. They are friends until they aren't. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/vietnams-o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93India_relations#...

tryingagainbroon Why Mashable flamed out

>>At its peak, the company had more than 300 people and was in seven countries, including the U.K., India and Australia.

They could have been very successful but I guess wanted to become a unicorn...

tryingagainbroon Homes should not be abandoned after a big nuclear accident

20 years later a child has some sort of disability and you are ready to kill yourself, even if the disability is not from radiation. Never mention cancers or even coughs--"it might be from radiation, I'm probably gonna die." And that's if he's right, a big if, especially when dealing with lives.

Thanks, but no, Mr Scientist.