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I thought that was a given and didn't need to post examples. That is why I would love to see them debate each other. The best comedy on prime time.

Oh god, please, please let that happen. I'd love to see a Trump/Biden debate. Biden is the Democratic Dan Quayle. He's an idiot of the highest order. Nothing would be funnier than seeing these two try to duke it out in a battle of wits. "Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." –-Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair, Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 12, 2008 There's a million of them, if he was a Republican you wouldn't be able to pick up a paper without reading about the ridiculous things he's said and Saturday Night Live would have had a skit on him every week since he started running for office. I'd love to see it, it would be entertaining as hell, but I doubt the Democratic Party will let him run. They aren't that stupid.

Cause obviously "accomplished business people" cannot be wrong. We just need to clone their opinions. Oh wait. Obviously accomplished people in all walks of life can be (and often are) wrong and most people realize this. But what so many tend to not realize is that the "common sense" majority opinions held by most "reasonable people", the things that "everyone knows" to be true, are also often wrong. And these mistakes are not usually realized until entire generations die off and future generations look back and ask "what were they thinking?". Although what is unique about the modern era is that information is shared so quickly that opinions on many subjects are changing within decades by the same living people rather than in centuries by different generations of people. We think of this as normal for public opinion to change so quickly, but it really is something completely unique and new. I suspect that this is accelerating and "decades" will become "years" before you know it. Progress in culture as well as technology is progressing at an accelerating pace. Government however is still mostly static, slow, inefficient, and unadaptable. It is an old model from a past time. This comment is more about your statement about whether it is wise to follow others opinions blindly, then it is about Trump and whether or not he's dangerous. Of course, he's dangerous. Anyone who wants to be president is.

They should put a leader board on their website and list the most generous gifters in order (without saying what they gave), get a competition going for people to move themselves up the list. Email the top 10 to the whole wedding list every day. "Honey can you believe even Great Aunt Mildred gave more than we did? How embarrassing. We have to send them some more."

Very good points and all true. I'd just like to point out that we are also far from the having freedom we think we have. We are somewhere in the middle and (the government at least) is heading in the wrong direction (albeit slowly). This is one of the best articles I've read on the matter. No president has the power to really do anything meaningful (in a good way), but has some power to inhibit good things from happening in the private sector. It is an obsolete system and way of doing things, which if it was every really necessary (this is debatable and I'm not sure I really know the answer), it is certainly becoming less and less so as time goes by. https://fee.org/articles/is-politics-obsolete/ EDIT: The one exception to the point that the president can't really accomplish that much is foreign policy, which is why I think that is the only thing you should really focus on. The president can really muck things up in this area anything from getting thousands killed unnecessarily to starting a world war with the possibility of ending all human life.

I'd say those examples (like my 90year old smoking grandfather) are examples of good genes, not evidence that junk food is OK. Like I said, if it works for WEB that is great for him. I wouldn't use it as a model to recommend though. Nutrition is a lot more complicated than almost everyone assumes. What is good for me, may not be good for you, and it might not be good for me either in 10 years. It is a combination of genetics, epigenetics, hormones, metabolism, lifestyle, age, environment, food quality, micronutrients, macronutrients, contaminants, the quantity and types of bacteria currently inhabiting your digestive system, the condition of your liver, kidneys, and other organs, and probably 50 other variables that I haven't listed. Any studies done or advice given can only tell you about statistically what is probably good for you to eat, it can't tell you what your body actually needs at this point in time. You are an individual not a statistical average.

It seems to work for him, I doubt it would work for most though. As you said Diabetes and obesity (already pretty bad) would be a lot worse. My grandfather lived until 90 even though he smoked 60 unfiltered cigarettes a day for his last 75 years or so. I wouldn't recommend that either, although it worked for him.

I agree. And remember he wasn't posting this as a possible investment, just as an interesting news story. I had never heard of Theranos until he posted about it here, so I'm glad he did. Geo if you run across any other interesting business news I hope you post it regardless of the negativity of a few here.

I know. I have my own well water now, but when I used to live in Massachusetts we drank bottled water to avoid the fluoride, we had one of those dispensers which take the 5 gallon bottles. Unfortunately that is a political issue on a local level, you'd have to try to get your municipality to stop adding it.

If you have a well, and you've tested your water and know what's in it you should be fine without a filter. If you have town/city water you might want something to get rid of the chlorine. Even the pitcher Brita or PUR filters will do that, or an under the sink activated carbon filter. But if your water has fluoride added to it, you might want something that can remove that as well, I don't think a carbon filter or Brita filter will do. You really need to get your water analyzed to see what exactly it is you want to remove (if anything) then research which type of filter you need.

A little much you guys. This is a private company with little information available other than some stories in the news. At first those stories made her sound amazing and now they are making her sound like a fraud. Not a single person on this board has done any due diligence into this company for investing purposes. Poor Gio was just posting a news story he found interesting. Cut the guy some slack. I know, you want a pat on the back and a "hey nice going" for posting that you were skeptical. OK <pat> <pat> Hey nice going. You're so smart.

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A man that is willing to cheat on his wife might be willing to do other things...A man that is willing to lie to 330mm Americans might be willing to do other things to. You seriously don't think Billy lying about what was going on in the Oval Office under oath was a serious matter? If push comes to shove, you don't think Bill would lie about other more important issues? He & Hillary have been involved in one shady, crooked, unethical deal after another, after another, after another. If she gets elected, it is simply going to continue. She & Billy need to be in the dustbin of history. So you're theory is that if you only elect the right people your government will stop lying to you? I wouldn't hold my breath. Of course the Clinton's are liars. If they weren't crooked liars and thieves of the highest order they would be doing something honest for a living.

You need to catch up on history if you don't think China and Russia have behaved like this before. And if you mean the bolded, you are one crazy mofo. I would love a third Obama term. The American people should thank God that they were lucky enough to have Obama as their president and be building statues of him everywhere. If they can fund it by raising taxes, even better! YES! Better yet I think we should enslave a bunch of israelites to build a giant pyramid, the largest the world has ever known, to serve as his final resting place for when he passes on to take his place next to Osiris someday. All hail the mighty Obama, drone killer of many children, he who calls forth death from the skies!

I don't think so. In a publicly traded corporation generally you have an ostensibly expert management team making capital allocation decisions. If offered a proposal by shareholders, they can generally choose to reject it if they deem it value destructive or even not an optimal use of capital. Think of it this way. Do you think Apple would have been successful if instead of Steve Jobs at the helm, there was a democratic process in which anyone could make a proposal and the one with the most votes was executed upon? The company would have burned to the ground. fair point...doubt the general crowd will be as good as steve jobs. But can they be slightly better than average CEO? possibly? if the crowd can get anywhere close to the average CEO on execution etc, the market for DAOs in general should increase order of magnitude from here...whether that translates to increased price for the DAO tokens remains to be seen, but seems to be an interesting tech/market none the less Also Apple is an operating company making real products. Most active investment managers earn below market returns. Is it possible that The DAO could do slightly better? I don't know.

Perhaps they already have one. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548 That author seems to have a personal axe to grind with Google. His dispute with Google over their security warning doesn't reflect positively on him. Just to be clear the author isn't saying that Google is doing this, just that his small study shows that they could.

I agree and nothing would be a greater tragedy than someone who is so gifted gave up creating wealth and helping mankind to get involved in something like politics, where the best you can hope to do is not cause as much harm as someone else would have.

Perhaps they already have one. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548

Yea - an unfortunately, as the reserve currency of the world, the U.S. will generally always run a deficit. To be the reserve currency, other people have to hold our currency for use in global transactions. How do foreign countries get that money? Either via trade deficits OR lending. American's don't save enough to satisfy their dollar needs AND the dollar needs of other countries so it has to be via trade deficits. It's either economic ignorance or pandering to some group of voters by telling them what they want to hear. With Trump (and most other politicians) you never know which one it is. I'm starting to get so cynical I wonder if any politician at the national level believes even 5% of what they say. That is what was appealing about Sanders I think, his naivete. Yes he's a socialist, but he really is a socialist.

That is the only thing you can do, sit back and see what happens. Oh, you can vote if you want, but your vote isn't going to change the election one way or the other. So sit back and enjoy the show.

That would be hilarious if Sandars switched parties and ran with Trump. He's just nutty enough to do it too. The two party system is crumbling anyway, that would push it along nicely. I'm just sitting back with my popcorn and enjoying the show.

That is the largest danger for sure. The things that make it interesting is that it isn't a democracy. Your vote is weighted by your shares, so those with the most to lose(or gain) have the most say. Also, as the article you posted points out, the contracts are written not in English, but in computer code (Solidity) and executed on the Ethereum blockchain. This will hopefully weed out unintelligent people from investing heavily and having a heavily weighted vote. Having a large amount of coders holding tokens, The DAO will be in a good position to invest in code heavy projects/companies. The danger is that it veers off of its circle of competence and invests in different types of companies as well. This is either going to work fabulously or crash and burn fairly quickly.

Being good at shoe buttons does not make you good at everything. And with the nature of the geopolitical process the way it is, an intelligent person could also get us all killed.

Funny thing is, switch Trump and Hillary in the above quote and just about all of it still applies. I am much more worried about Clinton starting WWIII than Trump. She is bought and paid for by the military industrial complex, is about as hawkish as any president we've ever had, and will likely continue Obama's needless provocations of Putin. Trump seems less warmongerish to me, has even said more antiwar statements then any of the other candidates (which could be one reason he came out on top). IMHO having any human being in the whitehouse with the amount of power the POTUS currently has is dangerous, but Trump seems less dangerous to me than Hillary. As I said before, Hillary scares the hell out of me. You think Trump is a Megalomaniac and Hillary isn't? Really?

Last time I used tokens was in 1994 in a arcade. I exchanged cash for there arcade tokens. I was 11 years old and I kept using cash to exchange for tokens. I kept playing until I got hungry so I went down to a place were they sold wing dings ( mini chicken wings). I had no cash left. Only tokens. I tried to pay in tokens I got denied. I realized then tokens only had value in the arcade ecosystem. I was sad I couldn't buy wings with tokens. Should they have called it "shares" rather than "tokens"? I still use tokens all the time when programming. Yes that is a different type of token, but so is your example. EDIT: Come to think of it, "token" from a programming perspective is exactly what the DAO tokens are.