If you have ever lived in Germany, you would be very familiar with this problem as there is a day when you are explicitly not allowed to dance in public because of some Bismark era Christian-based legislation. People kind of know about this and some do think that it's a little weird. What people do not think is weird is that they are not allowed to work on Sundays, which is every single bit a religious law as the dancing one. Neither is getting repealed any time soon though, as the seems to be this general belief among the populace that repealing the latter would somehow lead to worker exploitation and repealing the former would reduce the number of days off in any given year. It's very inconvenient.
Something being cool does not mean that it is not a net negative for the society from the point of view of a person who thinks that something is cool. I think nuclear weapon tests are fucking cool, but that does not mean that I cannot acknowledge that we probably shouldn't conduct any anymore.
I don't think you understand the whole "unregulated markets" point either. "Unregulated" means that there is no legislation against things like insider trading in the crypto space. It does not mean that an exchange provider you gave access to you bank account can debit it willy nilly or "forget" to credit your account when you transfer funds out of your own volition. There is no suspension of contractual obligations between parties.
That's highly unlikely. For one, trading and analyst divisions are separated by Chinese Walls. Goldman would be risking a lot of trust with their clients if they were discovered to be in cahoots with their other clients. Goldman cannot engage in proprietary trading of Bitcoin with its own funds either, even if the Chinese Walls were not in place, because it would go against the Volcker Rule of the Dodd-Frank Act which prohibits federally-insured banks from engaging in speculation. I find it much more probable that their analysts have simply reached a conclusion that Bitcoin is worthless; a conclusion that very much coincides with the consensus of the investment sector as a whole.
Oh my God, it’s the perpetually upset soul being upset comment #56017805. Let’s just stop doing everything we do and spend that money on building water purifiers. I suggest we start with Slashdot.
Right, although I am not entirely sure a micro aggression is rude. It strikes me as something that is actually civil, but may upset someone if taken through a meticulous process of interpreting the most underhanded meaning of an utterance imaginable. Really now, “there is only one race: the human race” is a sort of thing I would expect to hear from the most softie of soft grandmas in a park. The whole concept is a deus ex machina for making anyone guilty of “something” under all circumstances.
That is a very good stance and I share it with you in as far as laid out in your post, but I think it is useful to be a bit more precise with terminology. Micro aggressions have a specific meaning and are usually referred to by a very specific group of people. It’s not just a term for someone who is being an asshole.
You may want to research things a little instead of being a Humpty Dumpty about what means what. Just Google “examples of microaggressions” and see what comes out. The first is some Buzzfeed article, but for the sake of everyone involved I will link you to the second hit from a somewhat more reputable.edu address.
Is this you understanding of “being a dick”? Half of these are things I have never heard anyone say in a ten mile radius of a college campus, the other half are so benign that you have to have very special interpretative skills to qualify that as being anything close to a dick. QED: I believe the most qualified person should get the job. and Why do you have to be so loud / animated? Just calm down. Christ, I am certain that by many definitions your whole post is a major microaggression because you are not letting dicks express themselves or something like that.
The crypto space—regardless of what happens to it in the long term—is brim full of intentional Ponzi schemes and pump and dump operations on a scale that would otherwise be difficult to access elsewhere. Operations like Bitconnect collect over a billion dollars from poor sods that don’t know any better and just vanish into the night. Goodbye decades of savings. While far from impossible, it would be very difficult for an illiterate investor to destroy his capital this quickly with the exchange traded instruments.
Why would you read the white papers? The price in USD is the only thing that speculators care about and it is not determined by any technical aspects of the currency.
As is whining about not having speculated on something after the gains from the said speculation have been determined, particularly when the said whining consists of blaming some invisible others for your own failure.
It’s too expensive to strike a put on Bitcoin at the moment and there are no options available on regulated markets. Simply shorting something this volatile is dangerous solely because it can rise enough in short-term to put you out of business or force you to cut your loses. That does not affect the long-term prospects of your toy money.
Bitcoins ATH has been little short of twenty grand. That means that some people have bought it at that price, while others were deterred by the same naysayers. If Bitcoin never returns to the said level, those naysayers have potentially saved someone from losing their house just as they have prevented you from being a balling billionaire.
Utter nonsense. The factory is leased to Tesla, which means that the tax payer is being paid back in rents. This is a much lower risk proposition than investing tax payer money in a single stock. I own a bunch of REITs; that does not mean that the companies whose rent I receive are ripping me off.
As for new stock, that is unlikely to go over well with the shareholders, who would have to agree to reduce their ownership in the enterprise. It’s either favorable conditions or the project not happening anytime soon.
You are literally ranting about muh corporations, whereas if this is indeed a bad deal—something you’ve concluded based on one article and not understanding what a lease is—it is much more likely the case of catering to the voters than the ominous shareholders.
Which they are literally leasing to Solarwhatsitsface. I wonder if Jodka actually understands what “buying Tesla’s shares” would mean. These have to be issued, if Tesla is to get any new capital, not bought on the secondary market.
God forbid people will say booboo things about a payment system that consumes as much energy as Denmark and is largely powered by Chinese coal power plants. Hate the planet much, bud?
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If you have ever lived in Germany, you would be very familiar with this problem as there is a day when you are explicitly not allowed to dance in public because of some Bismark era Christian-based legislation. People kind of know about this and some do think that it's a little weird. What people do not think is weird is that they are not allowed to work on Sundays, which is every single bit a religious law as the dancing one. Neither is getting repealed any time soon though, as the seems to be this general belief among the populace that repealing the latter would somehow lead to worker exploitation and repealing the former would reduce the number of days off in any given year. It's very inconvenient.
Unrealistic. Convicts don’t have smartphones in their cells.
How is that different from email? Should everyone run their own server?
Something being cool does not mean that it is not a net negative for the society from the point of view of a person who thinks that something is cool. I think nuclear weapon tests are fucking cool, but that does not mean that I cannot acknowledge that we probably shouldn't conduct any anymore.
I don't think you understand the whole "unregulated markets" point either. "Unregulated" means that there is no legislation against things like insider trading in the crypto space. It does not mean that an exchange provider you gave access to you bank account can debit it willy nilly or "forget" to credit your account when you transfer funds out of your own volition. There is no suspension of contractual obligations between parties.
That's highly unlikely. For one, trading and analyst divisions are separated by Chinese Walls. Goldman would be risking a lot of trust with their clients if they were discovered to be in cahoots with their other clients. Goldman cannot engage in proprietary trading of Bitcoin with its own funds either, even if the Chinese Walls were not in place, because it would go against the Volcker Rule of the Dodd-Frank Act which prohibits federally-insured banks from engaging in speculation. I find it much more probable that their analysts have simply reached a conclusion that Bitcoin is worthless; a conclusion that very much coincides with the consensus of the investment sector as a whole.
As opposed to all the other productive stuff you read about here.
Oh my God, it’s the perpetually upset soul being upset comment #56017805. Let’s just stop doing everything we do and spend that money on building water purifiers. I suggest we start with Slashdot.
Take that back! Ukrainian pyramid schemes have great ads.
Right, although I am not entirely sure a micro aggression is rude. It strikes me as something that is actually civil, but may upset someone if taken through a meticulous process of interpreting the most underhanded meaning of an utterance imaginable. Really now, “there is only one race: the human race” is a sort of thing I would expect to hear from the most softie of soft grandmas in a park. The whole concept is a deus ex machina for making anyone guilty of “something” under all circumstances.
That is a very good stance and I share it with you in as far as laid out in your post, but I think it is useful to be a bit more precise with terminology. Micro aggressions have a specific meaning and are usually referred to by a very specific group of people. It’s not just a term for someone who is being an asshole.
You may want to research things a little instead of being a Humpty Dumpty about what means what. Just Google “examples of microaggressions” and see what comes out. The first is some Buzzfeed article, but for the sake of everyone involved I will link you to the second hit from a somewhat more reputable .edu address.
Is this you understanding of “being a dick”? Half of these are things I have never heard anyone say in a ten mile radius of a college campus, the other half are so benign that you have to have very special interpretative skills to qualify that as being anything close to a dick. QED: I believe the most qualified person should get the job. and Why do you have to be so loud / animated? Just calm down. Christ, I am certain that by many definitions your whole post is a major microaggression because you are not letting dicks express themselves or something like that.
I don’t get what their issue is. I pilot my Jumbojets drunk all the time. Damn cops, am I right, guys?
The crypto space—regardless of what happens to it in the long term—is brim full of intentional Ponzi schemes and pump and dump operations on a scale that would otherwise be difficult to access elsewhere. Operations like Bitconnect collect over a billion dollars from poor sods that don’t know any better and just vanish into the night. Goodbye decades of savings. While far from impossible, it would be very difficult for an illiterate investor to destroy his capital this quickly with the exchange traded instruments.
Why would you read the white papers? The price in USD is the only thing that speculators care about and it is not determined by any technical aspects of the currency.
As is whining about not having speculated on something after the gains from the said speculation have been determined, particularly when the said whining consists of blaming some invisible others for your own failure.
It’s too expensive to strike a put on Bitcoin at the moment and there are no options available on regulated markets. Simply shorting something this volatile is dangerous solely because it can rise enough in short-term to put you out of business or force you to cut your loses. That does not affect the long-term prospects of your toy money.
Bitcoins ATH has been little short of twenty grand. That means that some people have bought it at that price, while others were deterred by the same naysayers. If Bitcoin never returns to the said level, those naysayers have potentially saved someone from losing their house just as they have prevented you from being a balling billionaire.
How does the Yuan “destroying” the U.S. dollar affect the companies held by Berkshire?
Utter nonsense. The factory is leased to Tesla, which means that the tax payer is being paid back in rents. This is a much lower risk proposition than investing tax payer money in a single stock. I own a bunch of REITs; that does not mean that the companies whose rent I receive are ripping me off.
As for new stock, that is unlikely to go over well with the shareholders, who would have to agree to reduce their ownership in the enterprise. It’s either favorable conditions or the project not happening anytime soon.
You are literally ranting about muh corporations, whereas if this is indeed a bad deal—something you’ve concluded based on one article and not understanding what a lease is—it is much more likely the case of catering to the voters than the ominous shareholders.
Which they are literally leasing to Solarwhatsitsface. I wonder if Jodka actually understands what “buying Tesla’s shares” would mean. These have to be issued, if Tesla is to get any new capital, not bought on the secondary market.
We have been doing this since civilization became a thing. The government always builds infrastructure to attract companies and receive tax revenue.
Visa executes around 2000 on average. It’s capacity is 56,000.
God forbid people will say booboo things about a payment system that consumes as much energy as Denmark and is largely powered by Chinese coal power plants. Hate the planet much, bud?
In case of a hostage situation? Are you out of your mind?