If people were using bitcoin properly as a means of payment then bitcoin would be awesome, stable price, low cost for online transactions. It's the investors, hype men, and speculators that have ironically turned bitcoin into an idiots investment,
With 20 dollars you can NOT simply invest like a tiny rich man. If you work hard you can kind of sort of invest like a rich person. I do concede that most of the little people don't educate themselves as much as they should but there are RICH people actively doing everything they can to keep these little fuckers as confused as possible.
Look here, a bunch of guys who presumably know math and science, probably have nice degrees, probably lots of reasonably wealthy people. Look in this thread and see all the people talking about what a good investment gold is. Someone told them that, they read it somewhere. It might seem dumb to you but somewhere along the line you managed to get a few kernels of good solid financial knowledge that were good enough that you could use them to screen out the bullshit and determine who and what you should be listening to for further advice.
No the companies that accepted it wanted it to work. Look at Visa's stock. Payment processing is practically money for nothing in 2018. If my bank is able to kick me back 1.5 to 5% of the processing fees that vendors pay for the honor of accepting my money... how much money do you think Visa is keeping for themselves?
Lol I saw this story today and I remembered this thread. I love the stupidity of gold fetishists. [quote] The precious metal is down 8% so far in 2018, and nearly 14% on an annualized basis — making it the worst-performing major asset class this year according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.[/quote]
I especially love when they go into long detailed defenses of gold with lots of smart sounding words and references to historical crap...the smug, well read idiots.
It's not an example of net neutrality. It's an example of how tightly we need to actually regulate these fucksticks or before long they'll be buying the visible light spectrum from the FCC so they can charge you for lightbulbs and eyeballs.
I honestly believe that it's not in their immediate plans to throttle youtube and liveleak without a "video package"... I just know they will do it eventually if we let them and this helps idiots not drink corporate kool-aid.
Shut up bootlicker the margins on their services are more than adequate. They don't pass the cost to the consumer, they already charge you what they have determined the market will bear.
Fuck you shits all act like business and economic experts. Come to think of it.
How is it that you're here? Most of us are old and have interests in technology that have gotten us jobs tightly integrated into businesses. What is it that you do that you haven't absorbed basic economics through your work? I'm really curious.
This does not directly tie to net neutrality but it shows how fast they'll fuck us when they swear up and down they'll be well behaved without regulation
You're talking out your ass. Gold is an investment with significant risk the only thing that it has in common with bonds or CDs is that it's not going to track the stock market. Having a diverse stock portfolio complimented by a bond ETF, negative beta stock ETF, a little gold, treasuries, and enough cash to get you by until your next treasury matures is how you're going to keep already attained wealth. Then when the stock market tanks you evaluate which investments didn't track it and use those to buy cheap stocks.
Have you considered that your interests may not be the first ones considered by whoever is providing your investment advice?
Go look at a gold chart and now use a stock picker to search through ETFs, if you search for lower beta or moderate growth ETFs there are tons of them that will make you much more money on anything except short term scales and have rarely lost any signifiant value. If you have a nice diverse portfolio with gold I guess that's on you maybe you know something that I don't but the very existence of the uneducated gold fetish investor means that the price of gold could do anything at any time.
To illustrate this point let's say I invested in gold at a really good time, 16 years ago. My highest interest savings account pays 5%. You would have only double the money in gold vs the savings account. This is best case, also you would have gotten to enjoy the roller coaster, watching gold's value increase several times over around 2011 and then rapidly lose half of that, you having no idea when it would stop. You need to invest broadly for stability, ETFs, mutual funds, etc. Not individual stocks or commodities. Even then stocks like Visa are still by far much better and more stable than gold by a long shot. If you're investing in gold I suggest you spend an afternoon looking through a stock picker, learn what beta and p/e ratio means and look. Don't read blogs, don't listen to cnn or fox or reddit. Then when you have an idea of the investment options that are out there evaluate your reasons for investing in gold.
Its exactly the same as what happened when people starting bitching about various bank charges. So now the banks dropped the charges and instead a lot of them charge you a flat fee just to have an account.
Funny my bank doesn't charge me anything except for reasonable rates on insurance and 9% apr on my credit card. They said if I overdraft my bank account they will charge me 6 dollars unless I call them a day in advance.
Lol once again both parties have embraced their fringe. Why? I have no fucking clue "energize the base" maybe? If that's the case it means all these lunatics, the SJWs, the trumpers, for all their noise don't normally get off their asses and vote. Oh plus she burned her bridges with half of the far left by fucking over bernie. Who was my first choice but even so he was fringe enough that I hoped the rest of the government would moderate his more out there moments.
In hillary's case she embraced small activist groups who collectively manage to piss at least everyone off. They made great soundbites for fox too. In the case of the republicans they're completely ran by lunatics to the point that they have taken over the party and won't settle with patronizing pats on the head anymore, play ball or gtfo.
I don't understand her at all, as an establishment candidate you'd think she'd be doing everything she could to keep radicals from taking taking over the DNC the way it's taken over the GOP.
Other engineers constantly over explain shit to each other, we're rehashing it in our minds so we don't forget, we're educating each other, we're puffing up our egos. Sure. It happens to me every day, I know I do it too. If I don't have time for it I'll interrupt but usually I don't mind. We're on a roll after our 12th cup of coffee and blah blah blah our mouths are moving 100mph. I can tell you even though I don't have problems with my co-workers I'm careful about explaining too much to any woman lest I make someone feel mansplained. I also notice with but a few exceptions that most of the women I work with aren't excessive explainers so I can see maybe why they might feel offended.
Still excluding them from marathons mansplain sessions is sexist and it's the result of some of what I've seen in this supposedly feminist push.
Just like the midwestern farmer who voted for trump but now cries that the wrong people are getting fucked over by his policies. You'll only care when it happens to you.
There was literally nothing wrong with the discussion the guy was trying to have and prior to that he sort of looked up to her. Yeah she sucks she's clearly a sexist bully. Getting a campaign rolling against this guy could have cost him his career too so I don't feel bad that she got fired. ]
These people are "the left" as much as the kkk is "the right". Nobody likes these people and all her friends who also get harassment are fellow internet warriors.
Dude get your oil done somewhere cheap jesus christ. Or do it yourself you just need a set of jack stands and the jack that came with your car. You could have bought synthetic oil and the jackstands all for less than that. Go on amazon and buy them now before you forget. Don't you have your windsheild on your insurance?
I personally don't own a car for the sort of reasons you mentioned but when I did have one I knew how not to get ripped off. PROTIP: If you don't want to do anything more complicated than changing oil you can buy a cheap OBDC reader and download the manual for your car. Buy the parts that the manual says you'll need from an online junkyard. When you go to take your car in to the mechanic, wrap gauze or duct tape on your hand, put some grime and a touch of ketchup on your hands and a dab on your face, put a massive wad of tea in your lip like dip and walk in like you're pissed off. Tell the mechanic exactly what the book said you should be doing and then plop the replacement part on his desk.
It sounds like a lot of work but I have a feeling mechanics rape you.
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Won't someone think of the internet meth dealers!
If people were using bitcoin properly as a means of payment then bitcoin would be awesome, stable price, low cost for online transactions. It's the investors, hype men, and speculators that have ironically turned bitcoin into an idiots investment,
With 20 dollars you can NOT simply invest like a tiny rich man. If you work hard you can kind of sort of invest like a rich person.
I do concede that most of the little people don't educate themselves as much as they should but there are RICH people actively doing everything they can to keep these little fuckers as confused as possible.
Look here, a bunch of guys who presumably know math and science, probably have nice degrees, probably lots of reasonably wealthy people. Look in this thread and see all the people talking about what a good investment gold is. Someone told them that, they read it somewhere.
It might seem dumb to you but somewhere along the line you managed to get a few kernels of good solid financial knowledge that were good enough that you could use them to screen out the bullshit and determine who and what you should be listening to for further advice.
No the companies that accepted it wanted it to work. Look at Visa's stock. Payment processing is practically money for nothing in 2018. If my bank is able to kick me back 1.5 to 5% of the processing fees that vendors pay for the honor of accepting my money... how much money do you think Visa is keeping for themselves?
This is exactly the advice that Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, and Bill Gates would give you......NOT!
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Lol I saw this story today and I remembered this thread. I love the stupidity of gold fetishists.
[quote]
The precious metal is down 8% so far in 2018, and nearly 14% on an annualized basis — making it the worst-performing major asset class this year according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.[/quote]
I especially love when they go into long detailed defenses of gold with lots of smart sounding words and references to historical crap...the smug, well read idiots.
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It's not an example of net neutrality. It's an example of how tightly we need to actually regulate these fucksticks or before long they'll be buying the visible light spectrum from the FCC so they can charge you for lightbulbs and eyeballs.
I honestly believe that it's not in their immediate plans to throttle youtube and liveleak without a "video package"... I just know they will do it eventually if we let them and this helps idiots not drink corporate kool-aid.
First the fire department gets priority data on cell towers... next they're feeding babies to pol pot. It happened literally everywhere.
The malice is against the customer. The stupidity was failing to disguise it in situations where it could be exposed.
Shut up bootlicker the margins on their services are more than adequate. They don't pass the cost to the consumer, they already charge you what they have determined the market will bear.
Fuck you shits all act like business and economic experts. Come to think of it.
How is it that you're here? Most of us are old and have interests in technology that have gotten us jobs tightly integrated into businesses. What is it that you do that you haven't absorbed basic economics through your work? I'm really curious.
This does not directly tie to net neutrality but it shows how fast they'll fuck us when they swear up and down they'll be well behaved without regulation
Crypto is like investing in a stock with an infinity price to earnings ratio.
You're talking out your ass. Gold is an investment with significant risk the only thing that it has in common with bonds or CDs is that it's not going to track the stock market. Having a diverse stock portfolio complimented by a bond ETF, negative beta stock ETF, a little gold, treasuries, and enough cash to get you by until your next treasury matures is how you're going to keep already attained wealth.
Then when the stock market tanks you evaluate which investments didn't track it and use those to buy cheap stocks.
Have you considered that your interests may not be the first ones considered by whoever is providing your investment advice?
Go look at a gold chart and now use a stock picker to search through ETFs, if you search for lower beta or moderate growth ETFs there are tons of them that will make you much more money on anything except short term scales and have rarely lost any signifiant value.
If you have a nice diverse portfolio with gold I guess that's on you maybe you know something that I don't but the very existence of the uneducated gold fetish investor means that the price of gold could do anything at any time.
To illustrate this point let's say I invested in gold at a really good time, 16 years ago. My highest interest savings account pays 5%. You would have only double the money in gold vs the savings account. This is best case, also you would have gotten to enjoy the roller coaster, watching gold's value increase several times over around 2011 and then rapidly lose half of that, you having no idea when it would stop.
You need to invest broadly for stability, ETFs, mutual funds, etc. Not individual stocks or commodities. Even then stocks like Visa are still by far much better and more stable than gold by a long shot.
If you're investing in gold I suggest you spend an afternoon looking through a stock picker, learn what beta and p/e ratio means and look. Don't read blogs, don't listen to cnn or fox or reddit. Then when you have an idea of the investment options that are out there evaluate your reasons for investing in gold.
Gold is a stupid investment.
Its exactly the same as what happened when people starting bitching about various bank charges. So now the banks dropped the charges and instead a lot of them charge you a flat fee just to have an account.
Funny my bank doesn't charge me anything except for reasonable rates on insurance and 9% apr on my credit card.
They said if I overdraft my bank account they will charge me 6 dollars unless I call them a day in advance.
Lol once again both parties have embraced their fringe. Why? I have no fucking clue "energize the base" maybe?
If that's the case it means all these lunatics, the SJWs, the trumpers, for all their noise don't normally get off their asses and vote. Oh plus she burned her bridges with half of the far left by fucking over bernie. Who was my first choice but even so he was fringe enough that I hoped the rest of the government would moderate his more out there moments.
In hillary's case she embraced small activist groups who collectively manage to piss at least everyone off. They made great soundbites for fox too.
In the case of the republicans they're completely ran by lunatics to the point that they have taken over the party and won't settle with patronizing pats on the head anymore, play ball or gtfo.
I don't understand her at all, as an establishment candidate you'd think she'd be doing everything she could to keep radicals from taking taking over the DNC the way it's taken over the GOP.
Other engineers constantly over explain shit to each other, we're rehashing it in our minds so we don't forget, we're educating each other, we're puffing up our egos. Sure. It happens to me every day, I know I do it too. If I don't have time for it I'll interrupt but usually I don't mind. We're on a roll after our 12th cup of coffee and blah blah blah our mouths are moving 100mph.
I can tell you even though I don't have problems with my co-workers I'm careful about explaining too much to any woman lest I make someone feel mansplained.
I also notice with but a few exceptions that most of the women I work with aren't excessive explainers so I can see maybe why they might feel offended.
Still excluding them from marathons mansplain sessions is sexist and it's the result of some of what I've seen in this supposedly feminist push.
Just like the midwestern farmer who voted for trump but now cries that the wrong people are getting fucked over by his policies. You'll only care when it happens to you.
There was literally nothing wrong with the discussion the guy was trying to have and prior to that he sort of looked up to her. Yeah she sucks she's clearly a sexist bully. Getting a campaign rolling against this guy could have cost him his career too so I don't feel bad that she got fired.
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You support brianna wu?
I suggest you pony up some cash for her congressional run!
Put your money where your mouth is.
These people are "the left" as much as the kkk is "the right".
Nobody likes these people and all her friends who also get harassment are fellow internet warriors.
You may change your own oil but you also use angie's list like an old grandma.
Dude get your oil done somewhere cheap jesus christ. Or do it yourself you just need a set of jack stands and the jack that came with your car. You could have bought synthetic oil and the jackstands all for less than that.
Go on amazon and buy them now before you forget.
Don't you have your windsheild on your insurance?
I personally don't own a car for the sort of reasons you mentioned but when I did have one I knew how not to get ripped off.
PROTIP: If you don't want to do anything more complicated than changing oil you can buy a cheap OBDC reader and download the manual for your car. Buy the parts that the manual says you'll need from an online junkyard. When you go to take your car in to the mechanic, wrap gauze or duct tape on your hand, put some grime and a touch of ketchup on your hands and a dab on your face, put a massive wad of tea in your lip like dip and walk in like you're pissed off. Tell the mechanic exactly what the book said you should be doing and then plop the replacement part on his desk.
It sounds like a lot of work but I have a feeling mechanics rape you.
He's a troll. Look at his comment history.
At least he's doing it right.