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Re:Kiva is matching loans for first time donors by delinka on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @05:46AM (#3102170)
He said "low risk" not "no risk." Low risk indicates that there's still some risk that you'll lose your money. I have no idea what that has to do with electricity supoly lines.
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Re:Kiva is matching loans for first time donors by nodata on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @06:00AM (#3102222)
My point is that you are lending to individual people since you lose money when they default on their loan.

(Electricity supply lines: say you sign up for "green" electricity. Nobody comes and physically cables you up to a separate grid, you just pay for more green electricity and all the different companies work it the numbers behind the scenes. Similar to what waitwhat is saying)

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