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by 55555 5y ago
idk, considering humans are the weakest link and socially engineering them is easy, I don't think they're going to end up much safer. A determined nation state will always be able to get in, at least with how computers currently w
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by 55555 5y ago
A steady stream of cold air coming into your apartment might introduce an airborne virus from outside while the cold weather may hinder your immune system from doing its job as effectively? haha that sounds impossible! stupid grandma!
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by 55555 5y ago
They generally tax their own populace at a relatively standard rate (20-40%+) while taxing the offshore corps based there at 0% (or more). Hong Kong, for example. In a sense it's economic subterfuge/sabotage. This is a response to
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by 55555 5y ago
This simply isn't true. I live in Thailand. Most locals here don't have access to US stocks, or don't know that they do. Young people here have a Thai stock trading app (for the SET, which is the exchange) on their phone and
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by 55555 5y ago
I was a huge believer in Monero. Maybe I still should be. I invested heavily into it years ago because most of the actual uses of cryptocurrency benefit from the privacy advantages of Monero. I've sold out now. The truth is that since
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by 55555 5y ago
> Just compare against a different strong currency to see how fragile the USD is I just did. What are you talking about? Please link me to graphs. > My USD loses value every day, while my crypto just grow. I have a good amount investe
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by 55555 5y ago
What is the relevance/risk of time delay to retail investors involved in online cryptocurrency trading? What do you mean by that term?
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by 55555 5y ago
Smart.
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by 55555 5y ago
Are you suggesting that buying a home right now is a good decision?
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by 55555 5y ago
Yes. If you're going to hire a mercenary, you should hire one who is unbothered by killing. But don't just take their word for it; many people will be confident they can do a job that few actually can.
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by 55555 5y ago
Normally, yeah, sure. But sometimes not. Sometimes the world isn't such a shitty place. Sometimes an employer will decide to take a chance on an employee and invest in them, and pay them more than they need to. Sometimes that same empl
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by 55555 5y ago
You're on bigcorp welfare and you do as little work as required to not lose your benefits.
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by 55555 5y ago
You are proving the conservative belief in welfare queens.
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by 55555 5y ago
There isn't one. It's the worlds biggest poker table and they just like playing cards and it's profitable and it's intellectually rewarding to think your way to being the smartest guy at the table. Sounds awesome to me (
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by 55555 5y ago
A common source of loss for investors. Funding someone in a moment of strength who ends up not having the nerve to follow through on what they said they could do. Or weakness, depending on whether you look at it from a business perspective
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by 55555 5y ago
Dang this is insightful. You have a clever understanding of social dynamics.
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by 55555 5y ago
Onlyfans strangely not mentioned. I see a lot of people on twitter with viral tweets shilling their onlyfans
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by 55555 5y ago
oh my god discussions about advertising on hackernews are like a bunch of plumbers talking about software engineering. these threads should honestly just be used as Dunning-Kruger honeypots. we should post about advertising once a week and
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by 55555 5y ago
Wow you are really not understanding the comment you are replying to. He's discussing the business model.
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by 55555 5y ago
I started a crypto startup once (don't do it unless you're Vitalik-tier intelligent) and this is pretty damn accurate. lol
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by 55555 5y ago
People on HN are uniquely able to focus on making more money instead of saving money. But due to limiting beliefs, many don't.
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by 55555 5y ago
Thank you very much. :) I know it took you a while to type that out but it will make a big difference in my life.
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by 55555 5y ago
Perhaps a billing fee?
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by 55555 5y ago
> - U.S. citizens living abroad in a low-tax country with a foreign spouse can engage in advantageous tax planning. Can you please, please elaborate on this?
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by 55555 5y ago
Warren Buffet takes this even further. He doesn't spend any money on consumption, choosing instead to invest it for 21+ years. And then he keeps it invested and refuses to give it to his children. (He's giving it all to charity, t
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by 55555 5y ago
> I feel like if you took and old diamond ring, reset it and refinished it, there would be no way to tell that it was "used". Maybe resetting it will introduce some flaws that weren't there before. Can anyone who works in
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by 55555 5y ago
Please elaborate?
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by 55555 5y ago
But the market cap of gold is vastly more. What you're saying is that the market cap for shovels would be the upper bound of the real number we are looking for, as there are other uses. So we can simply be more sure that gold has retur
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by 55555 5y ago
> the only painting is of the scatological variety from the sole residents: crows. This was weird.
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by 55555 5y ago
This is a myth. I think 10,000 years ago there were only 2 million humans walking the earth. Fruit trees growing on uninhabited islands today have delicious sweet mangos. Fruits which exist but have never been cultivated at scale are also d

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