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It is also often paired with cheese, both hard as well as the local "queijo minas", especially the "frescal" variety, which is a very young kind of cheese.

"Romeo e Julietta"

This has little to do with IBM but much more with HR.

Based on my experience, the second most stupid people work in HR. Most stupid people? Real Estate.

I am not saying that people in HR or RE are stupid by definition, I am sure some very smart people work in these fields. But it is a question of entrance barrier. You can get into HR from nearly any background. Yet, some kind of degree is required in most cases. In RE you do a few weeks training and you are ready to go.

Other fields have tremendous entrance barriers. Lets say a professor in a STEM field. You can find average people there but stupidity is rare.

If I were you I would have applied with exactly this sentence, even if I were not looking for a job.

Wickr (Encrypted chatting).

Bloaded, Slow, Buggy, Unreliable. Unfortunately some customers are too stupid and/or lazy to use a Jabber/OTR client.

"1. Mineral Resources."

This is the first time I heard this. Source that this is/was important? If it is, why not Brazil?

"2. Cheap Labour."

I am not sure that African countries are so much cheaper than India. Also, you need educated people too, something that is not available in Africa, at least not in quantities.

3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals.

Why is this necessary? Source?

China has:

1. Very educated people (most communist countries had the highest literacy rate)

2. A very supportive government

3. A huge market with the necessary infrastructure, starting from Universities, Airports, roads, trains...

4. Clustering of industries.

The phenomenon of China can not easily be repeated. It is nearly impossible in Africa:

1. Uneducated people

2. Tribal societies

3. Corrupt governments

4. Lack of infrastructure

Look at a map. If it is a "non-integrating gap country", it won't be the next China.

We are starting to develop a medical device, so if you are interested please provide your contact information.

What kind of medical devices did you build?

I wrote this here a few days ago:

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Wirecard has been accused before of fraud by so called "short sellers". The document published (2 years ago?) showed a tremendous, extraordinary complex network of international corporations. Such complex setups have a very limited purpose. It can basically be only tax "optimization", hide fraud or hide ownership (UBO). After having seen this PDF I would not touch the Wirecard stock.

By the way, I think Alibaba is opening two new corporations. Per day. You may also want to read at Bronte Capital about Alibaba.

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"the company is worth ZERO in my opinion)"

This IS a possibility. But the stockmarket exaggerates always in both directions, "like a sausage dog on a leash, sometimes walks in front of you, sometimes behind you but always comes back to you" Kostalany

If you want to make a gamble there could be buying prices now or soon. But it stays a gamble.

"Even a good company can be too expensive" Buffet

"Even a shitty company can be cheap" me

"Being made of gold indicates that it was at least not an every day tool."

Because of fragility or because costs of the material? Gold is one of the earliest metals used. I don't know out of my head what alloys (1000 BCE!) they could have used to create sub-milimeter wall thickness (0.6mm!). If they had been able to do this out of iron, it would be dust by now. Remember from Chemistry class? Gold does not react easily.