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Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks
43-year-old Raffi Stepanian makes money searching New York City streets, but it's not loose change or soda cans he's looking for, it's gold. Stepanian says he can make almost $1000 a week scouring the diamond district's streets for bits of gold, platinum, and precious gems. "Material falls off clothes, on the bottom of shoes, it drops off jewelry, and it falls in the dirt and sticks to the gum on the street. The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine . . . It comes close to a mother lode because in the street, you're picking up gold left by the industry," he says.
Everyone else will start doing it too, and he'll have to go back to his day job.
You're missing the plan, man. He's going to sell people the tools to do street mining. After that, he sits back in fat city.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I thought data mining, some kind of new information supersidewalk.
Korma: Good
Everyone else will start doing it too, and he'll have to go back to his day job.
You're missing the plan, man. He's going to sell people the tools to do street mining. After that, he sits back in fat city.
Then comes the book.
Then comes the TV show.
Yep, he's on Easy Street, in more ways than one.
just be careful of claim jumpers.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Who else thought this would be more along the lines of about land-mines or claymores? It would at least be a more interesting story...
Also much like old-fashioned gold mining, once others start doing it he can't make as much money doing it anymore
Correction: "*Refining gold ore and other precious metal ores* is a filthy job dripping with toxic chemicals: arsenic, cyanide, lead, mercury, etc." He's not doing any of that. He's literally just picking already refined metal up off the street. While he might be at hazard to whatever filth he has to brush off the metal, he's not not dealing with a large amount of toxic chemicals.
NYC is going to become the next boom town! That's when the whores move in! Oh, wait...
Actually, unlike gold (which does require large amounts of toxic chemicals to refine), aluminum isn't refined chemically; instead, it takes large amounts of electricity (which is why you didn't have aluminum production until the 20th century).
Do not feed the trolls.
This is a hardcore quack fucker just trying to advertise here.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Tomorrow they'll post an article about a sysadmin at a big company clearing out old home directories and supplementing his income by finding bitcoins.
And then that bastard Levi came along and stole his idea. Damn counterfeiters.
Shut 'ur trap.
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