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Re:Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons... by hueving on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:58PM (#14232880)
Gold coins so people can steal them from you in this doomsday scenario? Gold is about as useful as monopoly money when facing a gang of people that will just kill you and take whatever they can.
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Re:Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons... by easilyBored on Sunday April 30, 2017 @02:14PM (#14232988)
Still, better to have them than not. Of course you're not going to walk around with 3 kilo gold chains around or tell people how much gold you got.
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Re:Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons... by thinkloop on Sunday April 30, 2017 @04:37PM (#14233695)
With gold, you will be the gang.
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Re:Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons... by notahacker on Sunday April 30, 2017 @04:43PM (#14233717)
Only if you can persuade the gang they can't get more gold from killing you than working for you.
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Re:Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons... by thinkloop on Sunday April 30, 2017 @04:57PM (#14233790)
To build the gang you must recruit where `new-recruit-power < total-gang-power`. Since to start you are the only gang member, you can only recruit one dude who is 0.75 your strength. Now the gang is 1.75 strength, so you can go after another dude who's really strong, say 1.25. Now your gang has a strength of 3. Eventually you will be able to swallow up whole other gangs.
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Re:Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons... by kakarot on Sunday April 30, 2017 @05:40PM (#14234000)
That is not at all how anything works. What is "gang power"? What factors contribute to it? Manpower, wealth, weaponry, or what?
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Re:Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons... by thinkloop on Sunday April 30, 2017 @08:43PM (#14234768)
Trust me it works.
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