Close enough. It could be because I actually know what the hell I am talking about, as opposed to the AC lot living out their idyllic fantasies to evade taxation.
You got me. I am an economist by training. Not upset though. This site is pretty good for tech news, it’s downright retarded for business and politics. YRO is dropped-on-your-head-as-a-baby levels of stupid. Very much used to it.
Are we having an “at least I have a life, tryhard” conversation now? You’re the master of comedy here talking about being well-adjusted on a forum largely frequented by paranoiacs.;-)
That is not entirely true. Services like Betterment, and that one that rounds up payments and invests the charge, that are de facto investment funds make it really easy to save even for people who are really really bad with money. They are still somewhat uncompetitive to regular ETFs, but much better than nothing. One of the many benefits of electronic banking.
Healthy well-adjusted individuals don’t go on./ posting about how the government is about to go all Mao on them anytime now. I would much rather work efficiently and enjoy barbecue with my neighbor later on than fixing his fucking Windows installation.
What happens and how many times has it happened to you personally? Please, AC, provide me with a cost-benefit analysis. Visa and MasterCard have been down for a few hours in the past months and that made national news. The number of working hours those companies have saved in return is unimaginable at this point though. You are literally in the insanity land, bud.
Stupid. Assuming your trade was entirely fair with regard to the utility provided by both sides—it wasn’t—you would have each been better off performing the transaction through a market. The fact that exchange in kind hampers productivity has been known for centuries now.
Banks do it because it’s convenient and customers like convenience. Competition nullifies whatever gain one bank may have from offering the service first. I pay with Apple Pay almost exclusively now. It saves a lot of time for me, saves time for the cashier, saves time for the ATM department and reduces costs all around. Only paranoid dinosaurs and those in positions that are about to get automated away would fight this.
A diversified equity portfolio will also retain its value unless things go really bad. It may swing back and forth, but so does gold, whilst not actually producing anything. So, sure, you can be volatile and anonymous or volatile and wealthy. By all means, be my guest and choose the former.
The good thing is: they'll likely overplay their hand and lose control: if governments get rid of cash, people will find alternative payment means completely outside the control of banks and governments. Bitcoin didn't quite get it right technically, but systems like that will catch on.
What exactly is good about your “good thing”? It enables you to purchase your tomatoes anonymously—totally worth it, I am sure—at the cost of criminal groups having an easy means of exchange for profits derived from their contraband businesses. You can fantasize about how some dystopian science fiction story is totally coming true now, but removing a means of exchange from criminals and forcing them pay in kind makes the said criminal activity considerably less effective. Most people on/. really should get their fucking priorities straight.
You know who else delivered a working product? Volkswagen. They may have lied a little bit about the emissions, but it was much closer to what the end user expected the car to be than NMS was to what Sean sold it as.
You are hilarious. I received death threads online after a video game match. I don’t remember when or which video game, but I am certain that someone said they will kill me. Go on, get the Scotland Yard on my case so we can determine if I just committed a crime by lying about a crime. How utterly sheltered are you?
The juvenile can cry all day about 'promises'. It doesn't make a difference. What was delivered is pure gold.
What was delivered was pure shit. You just happen to be a gastoenterologist and literally irrelevant to the average person who financed the actual product. Talking about lack of perspective.
These days? Arthur Conan Doyle received death threads when he killed Sherlock Holmes a century ago. Just how old are you exactly?
That being said, while I don’t intend to send any death threads to anyone myself (got to get it out of the way before someone gets upset), the question can be turned around just as easily. How coddled is the developer? He KNOWINGLY lied to millions of people who bought his product for YEARS and is now upset about the fact that of them mailed him that they “will fucking kill him”. Go and try doing that face-to-face to a million people. You will not get through the first hundred before someone bashes your jaw in. Truly the result of “everybody is a winner” education; not Sean’s fault at all.
I don’t know, maybe after hearing Sean’s lies for long enough, people who know more about this controversy than you do are not exactly losing sleep over the fact that this poor multimillionaire got a few nasty emails. Just a though.;-)
I am not entirely sure what you are getting at with that link? Are you trying to say that people, who bought ships in a game that was supposed to be released years ago and whose developers now comedically enough decided to stop giving refunds, are liking SC’s overblown marketing promises? I’m certain there are some true believers, but you don’t cease refunds when you customer base is “liking” your work.
If he is an idiot kid, you are an idiot grandpa. There isn’t a single famous person on the internet who doesn’t get these en masse. You don’t even have to be a con artist to get them, although that obviously helps.
Despite the controversy, No Man's Sky sold extremely well, and plenty of its players have stuck by it.
That is a cute, Guardian. Are you sure it is not that there was a controversy BECAUSE No Man’s Sky sold extremely well (on preorders based upon the lies that this piece of human garbage perpetrated for years before the release). Also, “stuck buy it”, as seen by the glowing reviews it received upon release. I don’t know who is more full of crap at this point, Sean or the author.
Jessica Price tells the Verge. If Reddit wants you fired, well fire you. The quality of your work doesnt matter.
That is truly insightful coming from an MMORPG character writer, an occupation known for producing quality writing that repeatedly receives not only multiple industry awards, but is up there with the Pulitzers and Nobel laureates for literature.
Absolutely should be penalized. In fact, my former European health insurance did something similar. If I participated in activities that would make me healthier and thus reduce risk, I would get a minor rate reduction. It mostly involved providing receipts for going to gym, completing marathons or visiting educational events about better dietary practices. There is absolutely nothing exceptional about this. Frankly, I would prefer them to adjust the rate to the BMI too, at least for women who don’t typically get very muscular. Some of my friends have gotten complacent and fat; they absolutely should pay more than I do.
Isn’t it “former investigators” now that the investigation had been closed? I mean, it’s great if they are investigating other stuff in the mean time, but that’s hardly pertinent to the title. It would really be better if it was something less clickbaity like “Two years ago some FBI agents thought that the guy they suspected to be Cooper forty years ago could still be Cooper.”
That is completely irrelevant. Not how individual insurance works. You want societal insurance, great, but in that case DNA profiles aren’t an issue. That not being place, not giving this data to insurers is literally making others pay for you because you intentionally lied through omission about your family’s medical history.
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Close enough. It could be because I actually know what the hell I am talking about, as opposed to the AC lot living out their idyllic fantasies to evade taxation.
You got me. I am an economist by training. Not upset though. This site is pretty good for tech news, it’s downright retarded for business and politics. YRO is dropped-on-your-head-as-a-baby levels of stupid. Very much used to it.
ROFL. Yes, the IRS has no money for a blockchain nerd division. That’s precisely how it works.
Are we having an “at least I have a life, tryhard” conversation now? You’re the master of comedy here talking about being well-adjusted on a forum largely frequented by paranoiacs. ;-)
That is not entirely true. Services like Betterment, and that one that rounds up payments and invests the charge, that are de facto investment funds make it really easy to save even for people who are really really bad with money. They are still somewhat uncompetitive to regular ETFs, but much better than nothing. One of the many benefits of electronic banking.
Healthy well-adjusted individuals don’t go on ./ posting about how the government is about to go all Mao on them anytime now. I would much rather work efficiently and enjoy barbecue with my neighbor later on than fixing his fucking Windows installation.
What happens and how many times has it happened to you personally? Please, AC, provide me with a cost-benefit analysis. Visa and MasterCard have been down for a few hours in the past months and that made national news. The number of working hours those companies have saved in return is unimaginable at this point though. You are literally in the insanity land, bud.
QQ. We will win, you will lose. Deal with it. ;-)
Stupid. Assuming your trade was entirely fair with regard to the utility provided by both sides—it wasn’t—you would have each been better off performing the transaction through a market. The fact that exchange in kind hampers productivity has been known for centuries now.
Banks do it because it’s convenient and customers like convenience. Competition nullifies whatever gain one bank may have from offering the service first. I pay with Apple Pay almost exclusively now. It saves a lot of time for me, saves time for the cashier, saves time for the ATM department and reduces costs all around. Only paranoid dinosaurs and those in positions that are about to get automated away would fight this.
A diversified equity portfolio will also retain its value unless things go really bad. It may swing back and forth, but so does gold, whilst not actually producing anything. So, sure, you can be volatile and anonymous or volatile and wealthy. By all means, be my guest and choose the former.
The good thing is: they'll likely overplay their hand and lose control: if governments get rid of cash, people will find alternative payment means completely outside the control of banks and governments. Bitcoin didn't quite get it right technically, but systems like that will catch on.
What exactly is good about your “good thing”? It enables you to purchase your tomatoes anonymously—totally worth it, I am sure—at the cost of criminal groups having an easy means of exchange for profits derived from their contraband businesses. You can fantasize about how some dystopian science fiction story is totally coming true now, but removing a means of exchange from criminals and forcing them pay in kind makes the said criminal activity considerably less effective. Most people on /. really should get their fucking priorities straight.
Banks don’t hate cash. Whatever costs it results in are paid by you. It literally does not matter.
You know who else delivered a working product? Volkswagen. They may have lied a little bit about the emissions, but it was much closer to what the end user expected the car to be than NMS was to what Sean sold it as.
You are hilarious. I received death threads online after a video game match. I don’t remember when or which video game, but I am certain that someone said they will kill me. Go on, get the Scotland Yard on my case so we can determine if I just committed a crime by lying about a crime. How utterly sheltered are you?
The juvenile can cry all day about 'promises'. It doesn't make a difference. What was delivered is pure gold.
What was delivered was pure shit. You just happen to be a gastoenterologist and literally irrelevant to the average person who financed the actual product. Talking about lack of perspective.
These days? Arthur Conan Doyle received death threads when he killed Sherlock Holmes a century ago. Just how old are you exactly?
That being said, while I don’t intend to send any death threads to anyone myself (got to get it out of the way before someone gets upset), the question can be turned around just as easily. How coddled is the developer? He KNOWINGLY lied to millions of people who bought his product for YEARS and is now upset about the fact that of them mailed him that they “will fucking kill him”. Go and try doing that face-to-face to a million people. You will not get through the first hundred before someone bashes your jaw in. Truly the result of “everybody is a winner” education; not Sean’s fault at all.
I don’t know, maybe after hearing Sean’s lies for long enough, people who know more about this controversy than you do are not exactly losing sleep over the fact that this poor multimillionaire got a few nasty emails. Just a though. ;-)
I am not entirely sure what you are getting at with that link? Are you trying to say that people, who bought ships in a game that was supposed to be released years ago and whose developers now comedically enough decided to stop giving refunds, are liking SC’s overblown marketing promises? I’m certain there are some true believers, but you don’t cease refunds when you customer base is “liking” your work.
If he is an idiot kid, you are an idiot grandpa. There isn’t a single famous person on the internet who doesn’t get these en masse. You don’t even have to be a con artist to get them, although that obviously helps.
Despite the controversy, No Man's Sky sold extremely well, and plenty of its players have stuck by it.
That is a cute, Guardian. Are you sure it is not that there was a controversy BECAUSE No Man’s Sky sold extremely well (on preorders based upon the lies that this piece of human garbage perpetrated for years before the release). Also, “stuck buy it”, as seen by the glowing reviews it received upon release. I don’t know who is more full of crap at this point, Sean or the author.
Jessica Price tells the Verge. If Reddit wants you fired, well fire you. The quality of your work doesnt matter.
That is truly insightful coming from an MMORPG character writer, an occupation known for producing quality writing that repeatedly receives not only multiple industry awards, but is up there with the Pulitzers and Nobel laureates for literature.
Absolutely should be penalized. In fact, my former European health insurance did something similar. If I participated in activities that would make me healthier and thus reduce risk, I would get a minor rate reduction. It mostly involved providing receipts for going to gym, completing marathons or visiting educational events about better dietary practices. There is absolutely nothing exceptional about this. Frankly, I would prefer them to adjust the rate to the BMI too, at least for women who don’t typically get very muscular. Some of my friends have gotten complacent and fat; they absolutely should pay more than I do.
Isn’t it “former investigators” now that the investigation had been closed? I mean, it’s great if they are investigating other stuff in the mean time, but that’s hardly pertinent to the title. It would really be better if it was something less clickbaity like “Two years ago some FBI agents thought that the guy they suspected to be Cooper forty years ago could still be Cooper.”
That is completely irrelevant. Not how individual insurance works. You want societal insurance, great, but in that case DNA profiles aren’t an issue. That not being place, not giving this data to insurers is literally making others pay for you because you intentionally lied through omission about your family’s medical history.